Lithe vs. Skinny
Litheverb
To go.
Skinnyadjective
(informal) thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
‘Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender’;
Litheverb
To become calm.
Skinnyadjective
Low-fat.
Litheverb
To make soft or mild; soften; alleviate; mitigate; lessen; smooth; palliate.
Skinnyadjective
Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
Litheverb
To attend; listen, hearken.
Skinnyadjective
(of clothing) tight-fitting
‘skinny jeans’;
Litheverb
(transitive) To listen to, hearken to.
Skinnynoun
(colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
‘She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.’;
Litheadjective
(obsolete) Mild; calm.
‘lithe weather’;
Skinnynoun
A state of nakedness; nudity.
Litheadjective
Slim but not skinny.
‘lithe body’;
Skinnynoun
(informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.
Litheadjective
Capable of being easily bent; flexible.
‘the elephant’s lithe proboscis.’;
Skinnynoun
A skinny being.
Litheadjective
Adaptable.
Skinnyverb
(transitive) To reduce or cut down.
Lithenoun
(Scotland) Shelter.
Skinnyadjective
Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh.
‘He holds him with a skinny hand.’;
Litheverb
To listen or listen to; to hearken to.
Skinnynoun
confidential information about a topic or person;
‘he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner’;
Litheverb
To smooth; to soften; to palliate.
Skinnyadjective
having unattractive thinness;
‘a child with skinny freckled legs’; ‘a long scrawny neck’;
Litheadjective
Mild; calm; as, lithe weather.
Litheadjective
Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.
Litheadjective
gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease
Lithe
Lithe is an experimental programming language created in 1982 by David Sandberg at the University of Washington which allows the programmer to freely choose their own syntax. Lithe combines the ideas of syntax-directed translation and classes in a novel manner that results in a remarkably simple yet powerful language.
