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- Dictionarythumb·nail/ˈTHəmˌnāl/
noun
- 1. the nail of the thumb.
- 2. a very small or concise description, representation, or summary: "a thumbnail sketch"
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A thumbnail is a small image representation of a larger image, usually intended to make it easier and faster to look at or manage a group of larger images. Graphic designers and photographers typically use this term.
Learn the noun and adjective meanings of thumbnail, as well as its synonyms, examples, and word history. A thumbnail can be the nail of the thumb, a miniature graphic, or a concise sketch.
Thumbnail can mean the nail on the thumb or a small picture of an image or page on a computer screen. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, and its usage with examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.
Thumbnail can mean the nail on the thumb or a small picture of an image or page on a computer screen. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation and usage with examples and translations.
noun. the nail of the thumb. anything quite small or brief, as a small drawing or short essay. Printing. a small, rough dummy. Also called porkchop. Journalism, Printing. a half-column portrait in a newspaper. adjective. quite small or brief; concise: a thumbnail description of Corsica. verb (used with object)
Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures or videos, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words.
Learn the meaning of thumbnail as a noun, adjective, and verb, and see how to use it in different contexts. Find synonyms, pronunciation, and word frequency of thumbnail.
