See Also: thumbnail(dictionary)
thumbnail 1, adjective(dictionary)
thumbnail 2, noun(dictionary)

thumbnail (iou)



thumbnail noun & verb. E17.
[from THUMB noun + NAIL noun.]
A. noun.
The nail of a thumb. E17.
Sounds You could put the sum of my knowledge of CSN..on your thumbnail.
In full thumbnail sketch. A drawing or sketch of the size of a thumbnail; fig. a concise or brief descriptive account. M19.
L. Cody He answers quite neatly to your thumbnail of Leonard Margolin.
Comb.: thumbnail scraper Archaeology a kind of microlith made for scraping; thumbnail sketch: see sense A.2 above.
b. verb trans. & (rare) intrans. Describe (a person) concisely by means of a thumbnail sketch. M20.
Times Miss Rideor 115 lb, blue-eyed, brunette..Sally, as the papers thumbnail her.