I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
thumbnail sketch (= very brief description )
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a thumbnail sketch of topics treated in depth elsewhere
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sketch
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This thumbnail sketch of a complicated web of negotiations says some unexpected things about Mr Major.
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A thumbnail sketch of their functions and modes or organisation was also given.
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A very tightly written little thumbnail sketch .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Almost immediately her thumbnail found another groove opposite; she pulled, and the star came out about a centimetre.
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He'd given up woodwork, having driven a splinter through his thumbnail .
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He displayed a swollen, bruised digit and a mangled thumbnail .
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He opened a book with his thumbnail , as if afraid of dirtying his fingers.
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It takes more than 400 pages of the manual to show thumbnails of them all.
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Nestling between the two spools was a tiny plastic packet, smaller than a thumbnail .
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The Blackfeet let each thumbnail grow long, until it crooked like a claw.