Gruel vs. Thin — What's the Difference?

Gruel is a food consisting of some type of cereal—such as ground oats, wheat, rye or rice—boiled in water or milk. It is a thinner version of porridge that may be more often drunk rather than eaten and may not need to be cooked.

With opposite surfaces or sides that are close or relatively close together

A thin watery porridge.

Having little, or too little, flesh or fat on the body

Chiefly British Severe punishment.

Having few parts or members relative to the area covered or filled; sparse

A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.

(of a liquid substance) not containing much solid; flowing freely

Punishment

Lacking substance or quality; weak or inadequate

Something that lacks substance

With little thickness or depth

Sentimental poetry

Make or become less dense, crowded, or numerous

Semen

Make or become smaller in thickness

(transitive) To exhaust, use up, disable

Hit (a ball) above its centre.

(transitive) to punish en

Relatively small in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension

Ejaculate

Not great in diameter or cross section; fine

A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or flour in water or milk; thin porridge.

Having little bodily flesh or fat; lean or slender.

A thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)

Not dense or concentrated; sparse

More rarefied than normal

Flowing with relative ease; not viscous

Watery

Sparsely supplied or provided; scanty

Having a low number of transactions

Lacking force or substance; flimsy

Lacking resonance or fullness; tinny

Lacking radiance or intensity

Not having enough photographic density or contrast to make satisfactory prints. Used of a negative.

In a thin manner

So as to be thin

To make or become thin or thinner.

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.

Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.

Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.

Of low viscosity or low specific gravity.

Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.

(golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.

Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.

Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.

(aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.

Poor; scanty; without money or success.

(philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.

Any food produced or served in thin slices.

(transitive) To make thin or thinner.

(intransitive) To become thin or thinner.

To dilute.

To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.

Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

Rare; not dense or thick; - applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.

Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.

Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.

Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.

Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.

Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.

Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.

To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).

To grow or become thin; - used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.

Lose thickness; become thin or thinner

Make thin or thinner;

Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;

Take off weight

Of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section;

Lacking excess flesh;

Very narrow;

Having little substance or significance;

Not dense;

Relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous;

(of sound) lacking resonance or volume;

Lacking spirit or sincere effort;

Without viscosity;