Explore Thimble through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like cap or container. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Thimble meaning
- A pitted, now usually metal, cup-shaped cap worn on the tip of a finger, which is used in sewing to push the needle through material.
- As much as fills a thimble (sense 1); a thimbleful.
- An object which resembles a thimble (sense 1) in shape or size.
Using Thimble
- The main meaning on this page is: A pitted, now usually metal, cup-shaped cap worn on the tip of a finger, which is used in sewing to push the needle through material. | As much as fills a thimble (sense 1); a thimbleful. | An object which resembles a thimble (sense 1) in shape or size.
- Useful related words include: thimbleful, containerful, cap, container.
- In the example corpus, thimble often appears in combinations such as: the thimble, thimble and, and thimble.
Context around Thimble
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thimble
- In this selection, "thimble" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, basically, inside, micrometer, farm, shaped and coincided stand out and add context to how "thimble" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and at thimble farm where and another a thimble and a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thimble" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thimble
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Taraji goes inside thimble mind in the reboot. (8 words)
Verifly unveiled its Thimble rebranding as part of the Series A venture financing. (13 words)
The thimble has 50 graduations, each being 0.01 millimetre (one-hundredth of a millimetre). (15 words)
And yet, in the ultimate pea and thimble trick, on the very same day, under the cover of locking up more First Nations kids, the Queensland government announced the most radical and unexpected changes to drug laws in Australian history. (40 words)
Suppose that the thimble were screwed out so that graduation 5, and one additional 0.5 subdivision were visible (as shown in the image), and that graduation 28 on the thimble coincided with the axial line on the sleeve. (39 words)
This past season, Ghost Island had 12 employees, all working in various capacities at the farm stand, in the four acres of fields at Nip ‘n’ Tuck, and at Thimble Farm, where Rusty rents an additional five acres. (38 words)
Example sentences (17)
Most nuvistors are basically thimble -shaped, but somewhat smaller than a thimble, and much smaller than conventional tubes of the day.
Suppose that the thimble were screwed out so that graduation 5, and one additional 0.5 subdivision were visible (as shown in the image), and that graduation 28 on the thimble coincided with the axial line on the sleeve.
And yet, in the ultimate pea and thimble trick, on the very same day, under the cover of locking up more First Nations kids, the Queensland government announced the most radical and unexpected changes to drug laws in Australian history.
At the same time, she said, Island Grown is extending its cooking season in the Camp Jabberwocky kitchen, turning out soups with vegetables from Thimble Farm and other Island growers.
This past season, Ghost Island had 12 employees, all working in various capacities at the farm stand, in the four acres of fields at Nip ‘n’ Tuck, and at Thimble Farm, where Rusty rents an additional five acres.
Verifly unveiled its Thimble rebranding as part of the Series A venture financing.
In one deep pocket of her fall jacket is a twenty-dollar bill, stolen from her mother’s purse, and in another, a thimble and a pair of sewing shears lifted from Notions.
Taraji goes inside thimble mind in the reboot.
A useful feature of many micrometers is the inclusion of a torque-limiting device on the thimble—either a spring-loaded ratchet or a friction sleeve.
However, with a thimble that will ratchet or friction slip at a certain torque, the micrometer will not continue to advance once sufficient resistance is encountered.
In some micrometers, even greater accuracy is obtained by using a differential screw adjuster to move the thimble in much smaller increments than a single thread would allow.
Metric system Micrometer thimble reading 5.78mm The spindle of an ordinary metric micrometer has 2 threads per millimetre, and thus one complete revolution moves the spindle through a distance of 0.5 millimeter.
On most micrometers, a small pin spanner is used to turn the barrel relative to the frame, so that its zero line is repositioned relative to the screw and thimble.
Sometimes vernier markings. ; Lock nut / lock-ring / thimble lock: The knurled component (or lever) that one can tighten to hold the spindle stationary, such as when momentarily holding a measurement.
The spindle is moved by turning the ratchet knob or thimble until the object to be measured is lightly touched by both the spindle and the anvil.
The thimble has 50 graduations, each being 0.01 millimetre (one-hundredth of a millimetre).
Thus, the reading is given by the number of millimetre divisions visible on the scale of the sleeve plus the particular division on the thimble which coincides with the axial line on the sleeve.
Common combinations with thimble
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: