thumbnail
- noun
- /ˈθʌmˌneɪl/
- Texting
- When browsing the gallery, I clicked on the thumbnail to see the full-size image.
- thumbnail image
- thumbnail sketch
- thumbnail page
There's words on the thumbnail itself, like big bold words.
- There's words on the thumbnail itself, like big bold words.
- There's no crafting of thumbnails, there's no crafting of titles.
- So it's basically like, don't put some cheap click baity thumbnail headline over.
- This problem of getting the best title and thumbnail, well, it's a scientific problem.
- I don't know how how to make this thumbnail, so bear with me.
- And why wouldn't it be suggested with thumbnails like these?
- Oh dear Lord, I forgot to do the thumbnail before I just did that.
- If they never click the thumbnail, they'll never know how good the content was.
Examples
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In Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp., a search engine displayed thumbnail images of an artist's photographs on its website.
Academic text (2016) -
In iBooks and the iPad Kindle app, covers are reduced to thumbnails barely 200 pixels high.
Blog text (13) -
So right now we are actually trying to get the thumbnail for this video.
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And we have a thumbnail and title for the video.
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Video editor could also be doing thumbnail designs for your videos.
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Pages presents a thumbnail view of all pages in the open issue.
Academic text (2011) -
If they never click the thumbnail, they'll never know how good the content was.
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Here, clicking on a thumbnail causes a smaller window to appear with the full-size image.
Academic text (2001) -
Clicking on a given thumbnail will then cause that image to appear full-sized in the main "picture" frame.
Academic text (2001) -
I'm currently multitasking and making a thumbnail for the blog you guys just saw.
Synonyms
An image like a drawing or photograph that shows something
A picture showing a person or thing
A small detailed painting often found in old books
How Informative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word thumbnail is also used for a very small picture because people compared tiny images to the size of a thumbnail, so a thumbnail image is a tiny preview of a larger photo or video.