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Definition: Thumbnail |
ThumbnailNoun1. The nail of the thumb. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thumbnail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Thumbnail |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Thumbnails are reduced size versions of pictures, used to make it easier to scan and recognize them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. Visual search engines and image organizing programs normally use them, as can some modern operating systems or desktop environments, such as Windows XP and KDE.In 2003, the court in the US case Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation ruled that in it was fair use for internet search engines to use thumbnail images to help web users to find what they were looking for.
The ThumbsPlus image file manager showing folder tree in the upper left and 12 thumbnail-size images to the right. Click on the image for a full size version.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thumbnail."
Crosswords: Thumbnail |
| Specialty definitions using "thumbnail": Bulk Sample ♦ thn. (references) |
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Lyrics | Sharp as a thumbnail scratch (How's It Going To Be; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
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| "Green frog" by Tjeerd Doosje Commentary: "The size of this tiny little frog is about one-and-a-half thumbnail. Shot in the Oostvaardersplassen in Holland." |
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| "Thumbnail" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.06% of the time. "Thumbnail" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.06% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 68 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "thumbnail": rough 2) thumbnail ♦ thumbnail sketch. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "thumbnail": thumbnail-size, thumbnail-sized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
thumbnail post | 8,066 | pussy thumbnail | 400 |
thumbnail | 3,756 | asian thumbnail | 395 |
jjj thumbnail | 2,466 | jjjs thumbnail gallery post | 359 |
free thumbnail | 2,441 | teen thumbnail | 331 |
thumbnail gallery post | 1,656 | free thumbnail picture | 325 |
thumbnail gallery | 1,561 | richards realm thumbnail | 313 |
jjjs thumbnail | 1,055 | lesbian thumbnail | 312 |
xxx thumbnail | 1,025 | free gay thumbnail | 290 |
free porn thumbnail | 966 | free adult thumbnail | 267 |
nude thumbnail | 888 | free teen thumbnail | 265 |
free xxx thumbnail | 862 | gay thumbnail | 259 |
free thumbnail gallery | 860 | free lesbian thumbnail | 251 |
sex thumbnail | 759 | wild cherry thumbnail | 230 |
free nude thumbnail | 728 | hardcore thumbnail | 217 |
free sex thumbnail | 726 | jjj thumbnail post | 214 |
porn thumbnail | 642 | blow job thumbnail | 202 |
adult thumbnail | 622 | free porn thumbnail gallery | 196 |
jjjs thumbnail gallery | 598 | amateur thumbnail | 194 |
jjj thumbnail gallery | 525 | mature thumbnail | 190 |
thumbnail picture | 438 | free hardcore thumbnail | 189 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "thumbnail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | ظفر الإبهام. (various references) | |
Czech | struèný (brief, concise, succinct), nehet na palci, miniaturní (miniature, pickaninny, thumb-nail), krátký (brief, concise, Cutty, quick, short, stumpy, succinct). (various references) | |
Danish | løs skitse (rough 2) thumbnail, rough sketch). (various references) | |
Dutch | schets (design, drawing, outline, sketch). (various references) | |
Farsi | هرچیزی که باندازه ناخن باشد, ناخن شست , کوچک (Bantam, Dinky, Little, Miniature, Minuscule, Minute, Petty, Pocket, Puny, Runty, Short, Small, Teeny, Weeny). (various references) | |
French | ongle de pouce, du pouce. (various references) | |
German | Daumennagel. (various references) | |
Hebrew | צפורן הבהן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hüvelykujj körme (thumb-nail). (various references) | |
Italian | unghia del pollice, conciso (brief, concise, curt, neat, pithy, short, succinct, tabloid, taut, terse). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 寸評 (brief review, thumbnail sketch). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すんぴょう (brief review, thumbnail sketch). (various references) | |
Manx | ingin ordaag. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umbnailthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esboço (delineation, design, draft, draught, essay, framing, layout, lineation, outline, picture, plan, rough sketch, schema, sketch, vignette). (various references) | |
Russian | ноготь большого пальца. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nokat na palcu. (various references) | |
Spanish | uña del pulgar. (various references) | |
Turkish | başparmak tırnağı. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thumbnail": thumbnails. (additional references) | |
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"Thumbnail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dhomnaill, thumnail. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thumbnail" (pronounced thu"mnā'l) |
| 3 | -n ā' l | Biennale, doornail, fingernail, hobnail, toenail. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-h-i-l-m-n-t-u" | |
-2 letters: albumin, halibut. | |
-3 letters: alumin, alumni, hamuli, inhaul, labium, lumina, manitu, numbat, tabuli, thulia, timbal, ultima. | |
-4 letters: album, ambit, baith, bimah, binal, blain, blunt, built, habit, haulm, haunt, hilum, human, laith, lathi, liman, limba, linum, matin, miaul, nubia, tabun, thumb, tubal, uhlan, unhat, unlit, until. | |
-5 letters: abut, alit, alum, amin, anil, anti, aunt, baht, bail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-h-i-l-m-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: thumbnails. | |
+4 letters: multibranched. | |
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