Thumbnail
noun
A small image that represents a larger version of the same image.
She clicked on the thumbnail to view the full-sized photo.
Often appears as...
- thumbnail image
- thumbnail sketch
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Technical
adjective
Very small or brief.
He gave a thumbnail sketch of the plot.
Often appears as...
- thumbnail sketch
- thumbnail summary
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Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
The nail on your thumb.
He bit his thumbnail nervously.
noun
A small image that represents a larger version of the same image.
She clicked on the thumbnail to view the full-sized photo.
Often appears as...
- thumbnail image
- thumbnail sketch
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Very small or brief.
He gave a thumbnail sketch of the plot.
Often appears as...
- thumbnail sketch
- thumbnail summary
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
The nail on your thumb.
He bit his thumbnail nervously.
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Online Navigation
Thumbnails are often clickable and used for navigating to the full image or related content.
The website displayed thumbnails of art pieces, and clicking on them took you to the artist’s bio.
Pro Tip 2/3Space Saver
Thumbnails save screen space while allowing you to browse multiple images at once.
The online store used thumbnails to showcase many products on one page.
Pro Tip 3/3Gallery Preview
A thumbnail gallery provides a preview of a collection of images.
She looked through the thumbnail gallery to choose which photos to print.
Pro Tip 1/3Online Navigation
Thumbnails are often clickable and used for navigating to the full image or related content.
The website displayed thumbnails of art pieces, and clicking on them took you to the artist’s bio.
Pro Tip 2/3Space Saver
Thumbnails save screen space while allowing you to browse multiple images at once.
The online store used thumbnails to showcase many products on one page.
Pro Tip 3/3Gallery Preview
A thumbnail gallery provides a preview of a collection of images.
She looked through the thumbnail gallery to choose which photos to print.
Pro Tip 1/3Online Navigation
Thumbnails are often clickable and used for navigating to the full image or related content.
The website displayed thumbnails of art pieces, and clicking on them took you to the artist’s bio.
Pro Tip 2/3Space Saver
Thumbnails save screen space while allowing you to browse multiple images at once.
The online store used thumbnails to showcase many products on one page.
Pro Tip 3/3Gallery Preview
A thumbnail gallery provides a preview of a collection of images.
She looked through the thumbnail gallery to choose which photos to print.
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Apollo Robbins on Focus...
come around just like throwing a boomerang it hit me when I don't want it to so I like to think of it as managing attention because control is a hard word but I manage the attention kind of like water flow and I see where it goes and then I have to move with that your attentional spotlight is only the size of your thumbnail one one-thousandth of
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CERN's supercollider PIPE...
The quarks are stuck together by other things called gluons. And these guys, here, they're the weak nuclear force, probably the least familiar. But, without it, the sun wouldn't shine. And when the sun shines, you get copious quantities of these things, called neutrinos, pouring out. Actually, if you just look at your thumbnail --
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How radio telescopes...
and they've spent hundreds of hours observing just a tiny patch of the sky no larger than your thumbnail held at arm's length. And in this image you can see thousands of galaxies, and we know that there must be hundreds of millions, billions of galaxies in the entire universe,
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The illusion of...
looking at interesting things in the world. And where your eye isn't looking, you're remarkably impoverished in your vision. That's because the foveal part of your eye, which is the high-resolution part, is only about the size of your thumbnail held at arms length.
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Strawberry Poison Dart...
bigger than a thumbnail and even smaller than that is her tiny tadpole unlike other frog species the strawberry poison dart frog mom transports the tadpole on her back a strawberry poison dart frog has to
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Earthrise: The Story of...
enough you could cover it with your thumbnail and everything we held there our families our country everything you had there was back on that blue planet that was a sense of awe how in the world
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We're building a...
that was disclosed after the fact. So some people were shown, "Today is election day," the simpler one, and some people were shown the one with that tiny tweak with those little thumbnails
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Best Spider Moments PIPE...
how a spider no bigger than a thumbnail can produce so much silk so quickly has baffled scientists and it's no ordinary silk
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
than a thumbnail can produce so much silk so quickly has baffled scientists and it's no ordinary silk it's the
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Real-Life Spider Shoots...
How a spider, no bigger than a thumbnail, can produce so much silk so quickly has baffled scientists.
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Apollo Robbins on Focus...
come around just like throwing a boomerang it hit me when I don't want it to so I like to think of it as managing attention because control is a hard word but I manage the attention kind of like water flow and I see where it goes and then I have to move with that your attentional spotlight is only the size of your thumbnail one one-thousandth of
Video examples
CERN's supercollider PIPE...
The quarks are stuck together by other things called gluons. And these guys, here, they're the weak nuclear force, probably the least familiar. But, without it, the sun wouldn't shine. And when the sun shines, you get copious quantities of these things, called neutrinos, pouring out. Actually, if you just look at your thumbnail --
Video examples
How radio telescopes...
and they've spent hundreds of hours observing just a tiny patch of the sky no larger than your thumbnail held at arm's length. And in this image you can see thousands of galaxies, and we know that there must be hundreds of millions, billions of galaxies in the entire universe,
Video examples
The illusion of...
looking at interesting things in the world. And where your eye isn't looking, you're remarkably impoverished in your vision. That's because the foveal part of your eye, which is the high-resolution part, is only about the size of your thumbnail held at arms length.
Video examples
Strawberry Poison Dart...
bigger than a thumbnail and even smaller than that is her tiny tadpole unlike other frog species the strawberry poison dart frog mom transports the tadpole on her back a strawberry poison dart frog has to
Video examples
Earthrise: The Story of...
enough you could cover it with your thumbnail and everything we held there our families our country everything you had there was back on that blue planet that was a sense of awe how in the world
Video examples
We're building a...
that was disclosed after the fact. So some people were shown, "Today is election day," the simpler one, and some people were shown the one with that tiny tweak with those little thumbnails
Video examples
Best Spider Moments PIPE...
how a spider no bigger than a thumbnail can produce so much silk so quickly has baffled scientists and it's no ordinary silk
Video examples
BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
than a thumbnail can produce so much silk so quickly has baffled scientists and it's no ordinary silk it's the
Video examples
Real-Life Spider Shoots...
How a spider, no bigger than a thumbnail, can produce so much silk so quickly has baffled scientists.
Example 1 of 10
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Hamish Bowles
English Journalist
Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.
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Albert Finney
British Actor
I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.
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Raina Telgemeier
American Cartoonist
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
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Connor Franta
American Entertainer
I could Photoshop for hours. I spend way too much time making thumbnails. I spend, like, two hours on my thumbnails sometimes just because it's, like, fun.
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Craig Sager
American Journalist
I can't even use a can opener. I'm mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids' bicycle chains.
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David Benioff
American Novelist
Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.
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Hamish Bowles
English Journalist
Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.
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Albert Finney
British Actor
I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite telling, very simply, when you're doing it or being in that thumbnail sketch, you don't feel that it's important.
Quote examples
Raina Telgemeier
American Cartoonist
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
Quote examples
Connor Franta
American Entertainer
I could Photoshop for hours. I spend way too much time making thumbnails. I spend, like, two hours on my thumbnails sometimes just because it's, like, fun.
Quote examples
Craig Sager
American Journalist
I can't even use a can opener. I'm mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids' bicycle chains.
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David Benioff
American Novelist
Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.
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