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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thick
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a strong/broad/thick/pronounced accent (=very noticeable)
▪ She spoke with a strong Scottish accent.
▪ a broad Australian accent
a thick slice
▪ Cut the aubergine into thick slices.
a thick/dense forest (=with trees that are growing close together)
▪ The country we passed through was once thick forest.
a thick/heavy mist
▪ Outside, a heavy mist obscured everything.
deep/thick darknessliterary:
▪ All around her was the deep darkness of a winter night.
heavy/thick cloud (also dense cloudformal)
▪ By midday, heavy clouds had spread across the sky.
heavy/thick curtains (=made of thick material)
▪ Heavy curtains help to keep the house warm.
stuck by...through thick and thin
▪ Jean has stuck by her husband through thick and thin.
thick creamBritish English
▪ Pour some thick cream over the strawberries.
thick glasses (=with lenses that are thick)
▪ She peered up at them through thick glasses.
thick layer
▪ A thick layer of dust lay on the furniture.
thick socks
▪ Wear thick socks and boots.
thick
▪ Curtains hung from a thick wire.
thick
▪ The thick carpet felt warm under her feet.
thick
▪ She had thick hair down to her waist.
thick
▪ Thick ice was preventing the ship from moving.
thick
▪ Lunch consisted of a thick vegetable soup.
thick/deep pile
▪ Her feet sank into the thick pile of the rug.
▪ a deep pile carpet
thick/dense smoke
▪ Thick smoke spread through the building.
thick/dense/heavy fog (=great in amount and difficult to see through)
▪ The two lorries collided in heavy fog.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
too
▪ I've sliced the bread too thick.
▪ If too thick, thin with a small amount of apple cider.
▪ Aerosol resist coating too thick: - increase exposure time or use spray more sparingly.
▪ Add a bit more milk if sauce is too thick.
▪ If too thick for easy brushing, then the varnish can be thinned with white spirit.
▪ It sounds like his tongue is too thick for his mouth.
▪ Their faces were too strong, their arms were too thick, their shoulders were wrong.
very
▪ The columns are circular, very thick and have cubiform capitals.
▪ The area we were in was triple-canopy jungle, with very thick, huge trees.
▪ Do not be tempted to make too large a frame from cardboard, unless it is very thick indeed.
▪ The mixture should get very thick. 5.
▪ A closer look and I realized that it was not fog but smoke, and very thick at that.
▪ I walked through hardwood forest of very thick sugar maples and yellow birches.
▪ Whisk eggs, sugar and essence for 5 mins until pale, very thick and whisk leaves a trail. 2.
▪ Cook until sauce is very thick.
■ NOUN
carpet
▪ He wandered along the thick carpets through to the main drawing room.
▪ Underneath the maps she felt the bare concrete of the warehouse, not the thick carpet of the Mayor's office.
▪ I stepped out on to a floor of empty desks set on an acre or more of thick carpet.
▪ Lino and thick carpets cover the floor.
▪ He scuttled across the rich thick carpet like a toddler, making her laugh.
▪ They have variable suction for cleaning delicate curtains, as well as thick carpet, and filters that take out allergens as well as dust.
▪ It was a high-ceilinged, gracious room with thick carpet under-foot and rich curtains over the windows.
cloud
▪ On approaching the high ground before the Alps themselves we all encountered thick cloud, despite the season, and icing.
▪ The sun was down, but there was still light buried in the thick clouds patrolling the sky.
▪ A thick cloud of mosquitoes had arrived on time and soon settled on everything and everybody.
▪ By morning thick clouds drift over, but the sky between them is deep blue and occasionally the sun peeks through.
▪ Unfortunately the fireworks must have seeded the thick clouds overhead because it absolutely poured with rain, and we got soaked.
▪ Dark clouds rolled over denser, thicker clouds and merged with them.
▪ When they reached the stairway the flights of stairs were almost obscured by the thick clouds of smoke.
▪ It was like walking into a thick cloud.
fog
▪ This lasted for half an hour; however, thick fog and bad bumps kept throwing them off course.
▪ He was walking home in a thick fog, wondering when the crisp, blue skies of autumn might appear.
▪ Time allowed 00:22 Read in studio Four people have been injured in an accident in thick fog.
▪ By the time we reached the island, dusk was falling and a thick fog had rolled in.
▪ Owing to the thick fog all day long, we had to take extra precautions on the road parts of the walk.
▪ I locked up the office and walked out of the student center into a thick fog.
▪ The accident happened last night in thick fog on the M-forty.
▪ We traveled in thick fog and through whorls of brown blowing mist, which made the woods ghostly.
forest
▪ Spinneys and woods are all that remain of once thick forest cover.
▪ We stood on the shoulder and peered down through the thick forest of old fir and knew he was there somewhere.
▪ In such places the abundant rains produce a tall thick forest beneath which the air is constantly warm and humid.
▪ The country we passed through was once thick forest.
▪ Hundreds of kilos of muscle and fat manage to snap not even the tiniest twig as they move through thick forest.
▪ At its foot, the pastures of the valley divide it from the thick forest which rises up the facing mountain.
▪ Lush mountains, fragrant spice and tea plantations drift via thick forests to fabulous sandy beaches and the stunning Arabian Sea.
▪ Greens hope to rally crowds to block the road-building crews as they hack their way into the thick forest.
glass
▪ He had thick glasses and his hearing was not too good towards the end of his umpiring days.
▪ His eyes were closed behind thick glasses, and his expression was prayerful and vaguely pained.
▪ Each station has a cutaway wall, framed behind thick glass, showing the strata through which the archaeologists dug.
▪ But although it only takes a few minutes, life without thick glasses has a cost.
▪ He was an old man, blinking behind very thick glasses.
▪ The inspector of schools was a small man with thick glasses who moved in a shuffle.
▪ Rain lashed at the windows with a new intensity, beating at the thick glass as though demanding entry.
▪ Ready-cut slabs of thick glass on top of painted, lacquered or carpeted wooden cubes make stunning tables and provide storage space.
hair
▪ His thick hair, still damp and scored with comb marks, was springing back into its usual lustrous waves.
▪ Her thick hair fell forward over her face.
▪ Feeling weightless and soft, she slid her arms further round him, her fingers pushing into his thick hair.
▪ McMurphy walks up and down in front of that bench, running his hand around in that thick hair.
▪ His thick hair smelled of incense.
▪ Black thick hair, a little greasy, shaped, unfashionably for these times, in Elvis Presley style.
▪ She had big dark eyes and fine lashes, and she kept her thick hair pulled severely back.
skin
▪ The jaws are armed with spine-like mouth papillae, otherwise covered by thick skin which obscures the associated plates.
▪ They have a good, thick skin.
▪ As with all hams, the thick skin is removed before sale or serving.
▪ We often talk among ourselves about developing thicker skins.
▪ A prerequisite of being a member of our party is a thick skin and a sense of humour.
▪ She will just have to grow a thicker skin.
▪ It requires a high level of stamina, a thick skin and a flexible mind.
▪ A clear brow argues A thick skin.
skull
▪ Let him do six months or a year, to get it through his thick skull that he done wrong.
▪ Orcs have large heads with huge jaws but tiny foreheads behind which lurk a thick skull and not very much brain.
▪ Neither you nor they seem to be able to get this obvious point through your thick skulls.
▪ In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull, and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.
▪ Maybe that had even penetrated his thick skull.
▪ She couldn't get it into her thick skull that being gay just happens.
▪ You'd better get that through your thick skull!
smoke
▪ All three were firing now, but the thick smoke was confusing them; they couldn't see properly through their masks.
▪ For the stunt, De Cagny trained Clovis to slink low to the ground with thick smoke overhead.
▪ But they were beaten back by thick smoke before they could reach young Sandy Lee.
▪ I can just barely make out the forms of the fire-fighters through the thick smoke.
▪ Neighbours called the fire brigade, who battled through thick smoke to find Sam behind the fridge in the kitchen.
▪ Flames shot up amidst coils of thick smoke that blackened our kitchen walls and ceiling.
▪ Five people were rescued from their burning flat and 30 others were led to safety after thick smoke spread through the building.
▪ You couldn't through thick smoke, however much you wanted to.
wall
▪ Insulated by thick walls, ceiling and door the ice would last throughout the summer heat.
▪ The thick walls insulate against the winter cold.
▪ Rising all around are thick walls of rough-cut travertine, the slightly golden stone that dominates the view from the freeway.
▪ Instead of endeavouring to penetrate its ten-foot thick walls, the rebels invited Grenville out to parley.
▪ Once inside, I mounted the battlements and explored hidden alcoves carved into the thick walls.
▪ There were one or two built into each thick wall of the rectangular keep.
▪ For thicker walls, a special soffit extension strip can be used between the two sections 6.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
blood is thicker than water
▪ For most cannibals, blood is thicker than water.
give sb a thick ear
have (a) thin/thick skin
▪ Some people have thick skins, others have thin ones and are more easily hurt.
have a good/fine/thick etc head of hair
lay it on (thick)
▪ He laid it on top of one of the garbage cans lined up in front of his building.
▪ I laid it on soil; the shoulders managed a few slow twitches, pulled it an inch forward.
▪ I laid it on the line.
▪ I took a card out and laid it on the counter.
▪ She laid it on the floor of the car.
▪ She took her coat off and laid it on the bed.
▪ Tenderly she laid it on the bed.
▪ That way, unless I've really laid it on thick, I can get along at a cracking pace.
long/thick etc -bodied
sb can't get it into their (thick) skull
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Thick clouds of black smoke went up from the oil fires.
▪ thick spaghetti sauce
▪ thick vegetable soup
▪ Thicker curtains will give you more privacy.
▪ a thick blanket of fog
▪ a thick forest
▪ a thick layer of frosting
▪ a thick slice of bread
▪ Bill's voice was thick and gruff.
▪ He's a nice boy, but he's a bit thick, isn't he?
▪ If you want to make the sauce thicker, add flour.
▪ In the hills, all the houses are surrounded by thick brush.
▪ Is this gravy thick enough?
▪ It's an old house with very thick stone walls.
▪ Not wishing to appear thick, but what exactly are you doing?
▪ shoes with thick rubber soles
▪ Some of the students they let in these days are as thick as two short planks.
▪ The ground was covered in a thick layer of snow.
▪ You have such thick, beautiful hair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I prod it with a fork and brown it on the fire before introducing it to the thick slice of toast.
▪ She landed flat on her face in thick mud.
▪ Stark clasped his thick hands behind his head.
▪ The thick walls insulate against the winter cold.
▪ The ceiling was low and there was a thick, suffocating feel to the air and a stale, old stench.
▪ The mortar joints between bricks were thick, generally about the same as the bricks themselves.
▪ The running lights flashed off and a thick silence filled up the day.
▪ The tensions aboard the boat are as thick and ominous as thunderstorm clouds gathering over the ocean.
II.adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Slice the cheese a little thicker.
III.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The thickness of the old walls helped keep the rooms warm in winter and cool in summer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it is enough to keep her in the thick of the race.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thick

Thick \Thick\, n.

  1. The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.

    In the thick of the dust and smoke.
    --Knolles.

  2. A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.]
    --Drayton.

    Through the thick they heard one rudely rush.
    --Spenser.

    He through a little window cast his sight Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.
    --Dryden.

    Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under Fiddle.

    Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and difficulties, both great and small.

    Through thick and thin she followed him.
    --Hudibras.

    He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy.
    --Coleridge.

Thick

Thick \Thick\ (th[i^]k), a. [Compar. Thicker (-[~e]r); superl. Thickest.] [OE. thicke, AS. [thorn]icce; akin to D. dik, OS. thikki, OHG. dicchi thick, dense, G. dick thick, Icel. [thorn]ykkr, [thorn]j["o]kkr, and probably to Gael. & Ir. tiugh. Cf. Tight.]

  1. Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick.

    Were it as thick as is a branched oak.
    --Chaucer.

    My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
    --1 Kings xii. 10.

  2. Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.

  3. Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness.

    Make the gruel thick and slab.
    --Shak.

  4. Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain. ``In a thick, misty day.''
    --Sir W. Scott.

  5. Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring.

    The people were gathered thick together.
    --Luke xi. 29.

    Black was the forest; thick with beech it stood.
    --Dryden.

  6. Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.

  7. Deep; profound; as, thick sleep. [R.]
    --Shak.

  8. Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing.
    --Shak.

    His dimensions to any thick sight were invincible.
    --Shak.

  9. Intimate; very friendly; familiar. [Colloq.]

    We have been thick ever since.
    --T. Hughes.

    Note: Thick is often used in the formation of compounds, most of which are self-explaining; as, thick-barred, thick-bodied, thick-coming, thick-cut, thick-flying, thick-growing, thick-leaved, thick-lipped, thick-necked, thick-planted, thick-ribbed, thick-shelled, thick-woven, and the like.

    Thick register. (Phon.) See the Note under Register, n., 7.

    Thick stuff (Naut.), all plank that is more than four inches thick and less than twelve.
    --J. Knowles.

    Syn: Dense; close; compact; solid; gross; coarse.

Thick

Thick \Thick\, v. t. & i. [Cf. AS. [thorn]iccian.] To thicken. [R.]

The nightmare Life-in-death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.
--Coleridge.

Thick

Thick \Thick\ (th[i^]k), adv. [AS. [thorn]icce.]

  1. Frequently; fast; quick.

  2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.

  3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure.

    Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. [Obs.]
    --L'Estrange.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thick

Old English þicce "dense, viscous, solid, stiff; numerous, abundant; deep," also as an adverb, "thickly, closely, often, frequently," from Proto-Germanic *thiku- (cognates: Old Saxon thikki, Old High German dicchi, German dick, Old Norse þykkr, Old Frisian thikke), from PIE *tegu- "thick" (cognates: Gaelic tiugh). Secondary Old English sense of "close together" is preserved in thickset and proverbial phrase thick as thieves (1833). Meaning "stupid" is first recorded 1590s. Related: Thickly.\n

\nAs a noun, "the thick part" (of anything), from mid-13c. Phrase through thick and thin, indicating rough or smooth going, hence "unwaveringly," is in Chaucer (late 14c.); thick-skinned is attested from 1540s; in figurative sense from c.1600. To be in the thick of some action, etc., "to be at the most intense moment" is from 1680s, from a Middle English noun sense.

Wiktionary
thick

  1. relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. adv. 1 In a thick manner. 2 thickly. 3 Frequently; in great numbers. n. 1 The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something. 2 A thicket. 3 (context slang English) A stupid person; a fool. v

  2. (context archaic transitive English) To thicken.

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WordNet
thick

n. the location of something surrounded by other things; "in the midst of the crowd" [syn: midst]

thick

  1. adv. with a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick" [syn: thickly] [ant: thinly]

  2. in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick" [syn: thickly]

thick

  1. adj. not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions; "an inch thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets" [ant: thin]

  2. closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds" [syn: compact, dense]

  3. relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog" [ant: thin]

  4. spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a drunkard"; "his words were slurred" [syn: slurred]

  5. wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark" [syn: heavy]

  6. hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods" [syn: dense]

  7. (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night" [syn: deep]

  8. abundant; "a thick head of hair"

  9. heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man" [syn: compact, heavyset, stocky, thickset]

  10. (used informally) associated on close terms; "a close friend"; "the bartender was chummy with the regular customers"; "the two were thick as thieves for months" [syn: chummy, buddy-buddy, thick(p)]

  11. used informally [syn: blockheaded, boneheaded, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed]

  12. abundantly covered or filled; "the top was thick with dust"

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Wikipedia
Thick

Thick may refer to:

  • The opposite of thin
  • A bulky or heavyset body shape
  • Thick (album), 1999 fusion jazz album by Tribal Tech
  • Thick concept, in philosophy, a concept that is both descriptive and evaluative
  • Thick description, in anthropology, a description that explains a behaviour along with its broader context
  • Thick Records, a Chicago-based record label
  • Thick set, in mathematics, set of integers containing arbitrarily long intervals
Thick (album)

Thick is an album by the fusion jazz band Tribal Tech released in 1999. As a contrast to Tribal Tech's previous recordings, the album features less compositional material and is based largely on improvization.

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Usage examples of "thick".

The spider legs of the Aberrant flexed within a few feet of her, each as thick as her arm, encircling the heaving flanks of the thrashing beast.

He had given the name of Stanley Adams, and had had such a queerly thick droning voice, that it made the clerk abnormally dizzy and sleepy to listen to him.

It was filled not quite to the brim with a mass of what looked like thick red slime and it bubbled continuously as if aboil on some gigantic stove.

The briefing officer had a thick accent, but it was German, not Spanish.

Good gracious, but his deep masculine voice was rich, with a thick, lilting accent that could only be described as musical.

Surprisingly, Ace found plenty of dry wood under the thick growth of trees.

The trees had the thickest of canopies, stunningly clothed in the reds and golds and russets of their autumn canopies: I spent many an hour while Achates slept in my arms watching their seductive dancing against the sky.

The braziers began giving off a thick, resinous, overly sweet smoke with something astringent to it but I had no way of knowing if it was, in fact, the perfume the grimoire had specified for operations ruled by the planet Mercury: a mixture of mastic, frankincense, cinquefoil, achates, and the dried and powdered brains of a fox.

She followed the girl through the wardrobe and into the small passageway between the thick adobe walls.

Gian nodded, the motion sent that front flipped curl into an adorable jiggle off the sides of his thick auburn brows.

To drag a cloud of white aerophane behind her over a thick, soft carpet, with three eligible young men in full contemplation of her peerless beauty, was as delicious as though she had been an actress receiving an overwhelming ovation.

His blue eyes were afire now, his Scots accent growing thicker by the second.

Fully afrown, I paused by a window to draw aside the thin cloth which covered it, immediately discovering the presence of thick, heavy raindrops covering the outside of the maglessa-weave panes.

There were no shore power cables on the ship but a heavy gantry with thick cables had been retracted aft near the rudder.

Both also were almost physical carbon copies of their ageless mother except for higher-pitched voices and thicker lips.