thumbnail

Synonyms for thumbnail

adj condensed

c.1600, from thumb (n.) + nail (n.). Meaning "drawing or sketch of a small size" (though usually not lierally the size of a thumbnail) is from 1852.

The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

She was only as large as a thumbnail, but she carried a gigantic secret.

Each painting is shown as a thumbnail linked to a larger view.

I picked at it with the thumbnail and the nail caught something hard.

My thumbnail had lifted a tiny circle no larger than the head of a pin.

Thumbnail views of all pages are shown at the end of the file.

She brooded there a minute or two, tapping her teeth with her thumbnail.

She knew where the bones joined: there she cut him with her thumbnail.

In each one of these thumbnail impressions the man is reflected.

He often painted with a sponge and used his thumbnail to "tear up a sea."