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thumbnailing

thumbnailing is the present participle and gerund of thumbnail.

Meaning of thumbnail

Verb

thumbnail (third-person singular simple present thumbnails, present participle thumbnailing, simple past and past participle thumbnailed)

  1. (transitive) To describe concisely.
  2. (transitive) To create a smaller representation of (a larger image).

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Questions about thumbnailing

What is thumbnailing the present participle and gerund of?
Thumbnailing is the present participle and gerund of thumbnail.

Words near thumbnailing in the dictionary

  1. thumbnail moon
  2. thumbnail moons
  3. thumbnailed
  4. thumbnailer
  5. thumbnailers
  6. thumbnailing
  7. thumbnails
  8. thumbnut
  9. thumbnuts
  10. thumboard
  11. thumboards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbnailing (page history and authors); thumbnail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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