slim
US: /ˈsɫɪm/
UK: /slˈɪm/
UK: /slˈɪm/
English Vietnamese dictionary
slim /slim/
- tính từ
- mảnh khảnh, mảnh dẻ, thon
- slim fingers: ngón tay thon búp măng
- ít ỏi, sơ sài, nghèo nàn, mỏng manh
- slim possibility: khả năng có thể được rất mỏng manh
- láu, khôn lỏi, xảo quyệt
- mảnh khảnh, mảnh dẻ, thon
- ngoại động từ
- làm cho người thon nhỏ (bằng cách ăn kiêng và tập thể dục)
- làm cho người thon nhỏ (bằng cách ăn kiêng và tập thể dục)
- nội động từ
- trở thành thon nhỏ
- trở thành thon nhỏ
- danh từ
- bùn, bùn loãng
- nhớt cá
- chất nhớ bẩn
- Bitum lỏng
- ngoại động từ
- phủ đầy bùn; phủ đầy
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, verb
+ adjective (slimmer, slimmest)
1 (approving) (of a person) thin, in a way that is attractive: a slim figure / body / waist + She was tall and slim. + How do you manage to stay so slim? + (figurative) Many companies are a lot slimmer than they used to be (= have fewer workers).
2 thinner than usual: a slim volume of poetry
3 not as big as you would like or expect; small: a slim chance of success + The party was returned to power with a slim majority.
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slimness noun [U]
+ verb (-mm-) [V] (BrE) (usually used in the progressive tenses) to try to become thinner, for example by eating less: You can still eat breakfast when you are slimming.
Phrasal Verbs: slim down to become thinner, for example as a result of eating less: She slimmed down to 60 kilos before her wedding.
slim down
slim sth<->down to make a company or an organization smaller, by reducing the number of jobs in it; to be made smaller in this way: They're restructuring and slimming down the workforce. + The industry may have to slim down even further. + the new, slimmed-down company
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Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 See slender, 1, above.
2 See slender, 2, 3, above.
v.
3 reduce, lose or shed weight, diet, Chiefly US slenderize:
I really must slim if I am to fit into my summer clothes.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be, feel, look | become, get
(informal) dieters who have got slim using these methods
| keep, remain, stay
She works very hard to stay slim.
| make sb
Step exercises can help make you slim.
| keep sb
ADV.
very | quite
PHRASES
tall and slim
Concise English dictionary
slimmer|slimmest|slims|slimmed|slimmingslɪm
verb
+take off weight
adj.
+being of delicate or slender build
+small in quantity
