Used in a Sentence

thumbnails

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for thumbnails.

Editorial note

At this point when you post a link from mobile it doesn't even add the thumbnails anymore.

Examples15
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The fingernail on the thumb.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of thumbnails gathered in one view.

noun

The fingernail on the thumb.

noun

A rough sketch (e.g., the size of one's thumbnail).

noun

(social media) A picture displayed by posts and videos pre-clicked conveying the matters discussed/shown in that post.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for thumbnails.

noun

The fingernail on the thumb.

noun

A rough sketch (e.g., the size of one's thumbnail).

noun

(social media) A picture displayed by posts and videos pre-clicked conveying the matters discussed/shown in that post.

Example sentences

1

At this point when you post a link from mobile it doesn't even add the thumbnails anymore.

2

On mobile the video shows up fine, but on desktop it's just a gray screen, although the thumbnails work.

3

Of course they've must have cached thumbnails before but this seems like a giant expansion that must consume rather much resources...

4

I added flexbox in certain areas of a bootstrap site to cleanly show varying size thumbnails in a grid.

5

I fat-fingered the destination directory in a script once and accidentally shrunk my entire photo archive to 128x128 thumbnails.

6

If you click on any of those thumbnails, it opens a lightbox slideshow.

7

Best thing is that it lets you configure whether you sync previews, thumbnails or originals to each device and even which photos to sync.

8

A gallery view of thumbnails, possibly accompanied by a palette of the main colors in the scheme, would greatly assist the browse-ability of the site.

9

For example disabling thumbnails and sound, having longer polling intervals,...

10

Well, you need to find those thumbnails somewhere.

11

I could sort of imagine some automated process making Imgur thumbnails of images from links shared on some social media site, and going awkwardly self-recursive and getting to 3.2M.

12

I have a handful of small apps that could really use background processes to create thumbnails and send confirmation emails, it's very lightweight and doesn't warrant a full $36/m dyno.

Quote examples

1

Example: I wanted to show a list of thumbnails and allow someone to "flick through" them.

2

The assumption seems to be "Reddit-as-imageboard," even though a number of subreddits are much more text-oriented where the large thumbnails serve no purpose other than to show fewer posts at a time.

3

"marketers." It gets even more difficult for the content creators as the "marketers" get smarter - heighten the pitch of a video a little bit so sound matching software can't find it, reverse the video and choose different thumbnails so reverse image/video searches don't find it, spin the text content (visitors aren't really there for the great writing anyway), and you beat the vast majority of software.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use thumbnails in a sentence?

At this point when you post a link from mobile it doesn't even add the thumbnails anymore.

What does thumbnails mean?

The fingernail on the thumb.

What part of speech is thumbnails?

thumbnails is commonly used as noun.