buff vs thin

buff

adj
  • Physically attractive. 

  • Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow. 

  • Unusually muscular. 

noun
  • Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits. 

  • Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals. 

  • A military coat made of buff leather. 

  • A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo. 

  • The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. 

  • Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition. 

  • A brownish yellow colour. 

  • A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing. 

  • A person who is very interested in a particular subject. 

  • An effect that makes a character or item stronger. 

  • The bare skin. 

verb
  • To strike. 

  • To polish and make shiny by rubbing. 

  • To make a character or an item stronger. 

  • To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner. 

thin

adj
  • Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt. 

  • Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space. 

  • Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe. 

  • Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions. 

  • Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering. 

  • Of low viscosity or low specific gravity. 

  • Of a route: relatively little used. 

  • Poor; scanty; without money or success. 

  • Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite. 

  • Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full. 

noun
  • Any food produced or served in thin slices. 

  • A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole. 

verb
  • To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains. 

  • To make thin or thinner. 

  • To dilute. 

  • To become thin or thinner. 

adv
  • Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state. 

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