Meaning of the word thick

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Our editor personally loved that her knees felt protected at all times due to the thicker sole.


—Ravi Davda, Health, 6 Apr. 2023




Inside, the Silverado 1500 offers a massive touchscreen but falls short of poring on the luxury as thick as the Ram 1500.


—Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 6 Apr. 2023




Add lemon juice, milk, vanilla and 1 or 2 drops food coloring, if using; whisk, adding more milk if needed, until smooth and thick but still pourable.


—Joy Cho, Good Housekeeping, 6 Apr. 2023




Most people prefer a thicker waistband for support.


—Hannah Oh, seventeen.com, 6 Apr. 2023




The leather upper gives the sneakers a polished look and the thick rubber outsole is designed for stability and traction, especially for walking through an airport with slick floors.


—Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2023




Space Launch Delta 45′s weather squadron gives the attempt a 60% chance of good conditions citing liftoff winds and a thick cloud layer among concerns.


—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023




At the start, a fleet of trucks can be seen heaping then hauling the thick layer of brownish dirt covering NRG’s floor for the Rodeo out of the stadium.


—Michael Murney, Chron, 29 Mar. 2023




Whitener’s team devised a way to apply an atom-thick layer of graphene to a vacuum tube’s anode to extend its lifespan by improving heat dissipation and reducing contaminating gases.


—Roy Furchgott, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023

Cucinelli, however, isn’t one to play the purist: the collection also sees the designer dabble in fiber blends including a baby alpaca, wool and polyamide crewneck qnd a thick-looking mélange rollneck that is disarmingly composed of virgin wool, cashmere and silk.


—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2022




The gift boxes were a real standout in our evaluations as well, and our culinary pros especially loved the thick-cut and meaty bacon — no fatty, stingy slices here.


—Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 17 Feb. 2023




The tank top is also a thick-strapped, cropped style that mimics a sweater vest.


—Kayla Blanton, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2022




There’s a thick-rimmed, flat-bottomed steering wheel as well as a set of analog gauges.


—Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 9 Dec. 2022




The homestyle diner serves breakfast and lunch from a scratch kitchen and features daily fresh-baked breads, thick-cut Applewood smoked bacon and freshly squeezed juices.


—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2022




And even Bottega Veneta is into the thick-soled trend.


—Alexis Bennett, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2021




Wipe out the pan and cook the bacon over medium heat until golden and crispy, about 5 minutes for thick-cut bacon.


—Bianca Betancourt, Harper’s BAZAAR, 22 Sep. 2021




The thick-carpeted halls of the West Wing are quieter than in previous lame duck administrations.


—David Jackson, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2021

Lanna Apisukh for The New York Times A fight was brewing recently at the Metropolitan Opera, and Angela Gheorghiu was in the thick of it.


—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023




The Miami Heat, in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race and in need of a win, finished with a 20-6 run to defeat the Pistons, 118-105, on Tuesday at Little Caesars Arena.


—Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2023




Trump is highly unlikely to plead guilty down the road, and any trial is some months off, raising the possibility of its unfolding in the thick of the 2024 presidential campaign.


—BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023




The Islanders are in the thick of the playoff race because of a hot streak at the right time.


—Tanner Mcgrath, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023




Basil was in the thick of it, being led by the hand to his marker since the Bloater suit blocked off part of his vision.


—Nick Romano, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023




An intriguing Friday night Atlantic 10 game between 16-8 Saint Louis and 16-9 Dayton, both right in the thick of the conference title race.


—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2023




Late in the rehearsal Jim Irsay shows up, old bones shuffling slowly, taking the same seat on the stage Ann Wilson had used, but shoved forward, right in the thick of things.


—Bart Bull, SPIN, 10 Feb. 2023




The Terminators been in the thick of the fighting along what is one of the most dangerous fronts of Russia’s 11-month-old wider war on Ukraine.


—David Axe, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2023


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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• (meme slang: curvy): thicc

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• enPR: thĭk
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, General Australian) IPA^(key): /θɪk/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /θɘk/
• Rhymes: -ɪk

Adjective[edit]

thick (comparative thicker, superlative thickest)

2. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

   Synonyms: broad; see also Thesaurus:wide

   Antonyms: slim, thin; see also Thesaurus:narrow

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].

3. Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.

   I want some planks that are two inches thick.

4. Heavy in build; thickset.

   Synonyms: chunky, solid, stocky, thickset

   Antonyms: slender, slight, slim, svelte, thin; see also Thesaurus:slender

   • 2007, Knight, James T., Queen of the Hustle:

     As she twirled around in front of the mirror admiring how the dress showed off her thick booty, she felt like a princess in a children’s storybook.

   • 2009, Kenny Attaway, Nuthouse Love, page 82:

     JJ loved “average hood girls”, Cody loved dark-skinned thick girls and Mooch lusted for yellow-boned skinny woman.

   He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.

5. Densely crowded or packed.

   Synonyms: crowded, dense, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact

   Antonyms: sparse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 3, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients:

     My hopes wa’n’t disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that ‘twouldn’t be a bad idee to get a lot more, take ’em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle ’em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.

   We walked through thick undergrowth.

6. Having a viscous consistency.

   Synonyms: glutinous, viscous; see also Thesaurus:viscous

   Antonyms: free-flowing, runny; see also Thesaurus:runny

   My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.

7. Abounding in number.

   Synonyms: overflowing, swarming, teeming; see also Thesaurus:plentiful

   Antonyms: scant, scarce, slight

   The room was thick with reporters.

8. Impenetrable to sight.

   Synonyms: dense, opaque, solid; see also Thesaurus:opaque

   Antonyms: thin, transparent; see also Thesaurus:transparent

   We drove through thick fog.

9. (Of an accent) Prominent, strong.
   1. Greatly evocative of one’s nationality or place of origin.

      He answered me in his characteristically thick Creole patois.

   2. Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.

      Synonyms: unclear; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible

      Antonyms: clear, lucid; see also Thesaurus:comprehensible

      We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent.

10. (informal) Stupid.

    Synonyms: dense, (informal) dumb, stupid, (taboo slang) thick as pigshit, (slang) thick as two short planks; see also Thesaurus:stupid

    Antonyms: (informal) brainy, intelligent, smart; see also Thesaurus:intelligent

    He was as thick as two short planks.

11. (informal) Friendly or intimate.

    Synonyms: (UK, informal) chummy, close, close-knit, friendly, (informal) pally, intimate, tight-knit

    Antonym: unacquainted

    They were as thick as thieves.

    • 1859, Thomas Hughes, The Scouring of the White Horse

      Jem is a tall, good-looking fellow, as old as I am, and that’s twenty-one last birthday; we came into the office together years ago, and have been very thick ever since

12. Deep, intense, or profound.

    Synonyms: great, extreme

    Thick darkness.

13. (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.

    • 2006, Christopher Carr; D. Troy Case, “The Gathering of Hopewell”, in Christopher Carr; D. Troy Case, editors, Gathering Hopewell: Society, Ritual, and Ritual Interaction, →ISBN, page 47:

      Thick prehistory also is interested in a much broader array of topics than the perennial sociological concern for how individuals relate to the collective and how social continuity and change occur in light of that relationship; thick prehistory addresses the social, biological, and psychological person.

    • 2013, John O. McGinnis; Michael B. Rappaport, Originalism and the Good Constitution, →ISBN, page 5:

      A thick theory, such as libertarianism or socialism, is not appropriate as the basis for a constitution in a pluralistic society in which the people hold differing views about the good (or justice).

    • 2021, Wanjiru Njoya, Economic Freedom and Social Justice: The Classical Ideal of Equality in Contexts of Racial Diversity, →ISBN, page 95:

      Nor is his defence of market capitalism likely to persuade all his progressive friends, because no matter how much fairness is achieved through an application of the difference principle, they are reluctant to accept Tomasi’s defence of private property rights or a thick concept of economic freedom.

14. (UK, dated) troublesome; unreasonable
    • 1969 Anita Leslie, Lady Randolph Churchill, New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 288:

      «Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order,» George told my father, «but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill’s barouche purchased in the ’80s.»

16. (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:voluptuous

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Adverb[edit]

thick (comparative thicker, superlative thickest)

1. In a thick manner.

   Snow lay thick on the ground.

2. Frequently or numerously.

   The arrows flew thick and fast around us.

Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

thick (plural thicks)

1. The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.

   It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
2. A thicket.

   • 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613, →OCLC:

     gloomy thicks
3. (slang) A stupid person; a fool.

   • 2014, Joseph O’Connor, The Thrill of It All, page 100:

     If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you’d be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks.

Derived terms[edit]

• in the thick of
• through thick and thin

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

thick (third-person singular simple present thicks, present participle thicking, simple past and past participle thicked)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To thicken.

   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet VII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC:

     A wicked ambush , which lay hidden long In the close covert of her guilful eyen,
     Thence breaking forth , did thick about me throng

Synonyms[edit]

• See also Thesaurus:thicken

Yola[edit]

Noun[edit]

thick

1. Alternative form of titch

   • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, line 3:

     Themost wi egges an heimost wi thick,

     One had eggs and another had a kid,

References[edit]

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129

толстый, густой, плотный, густо, плотно, хрипло, часто, пекло, гуща, разгар, тупица

прилагательное ↓

наречие ↓

существительное ↓

глагол

- арх. сгущать
- арх. сгущаться

Словосочетания

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Возможные однокоренные слова

thicken  — сгущать, сгущаться, утолщать, утолщаться, сгустить, сгуститься, уплотнять
thickly  — густо, хрипло, обильно, заплетающимся языком, часто, неясно
thickness  — толщина, плотность, толща, слой, утолщение, густота, обилие, косноязычие, тупоумие
thickish  — довольно толстый, толстоватый, густоватый

Формы слова

adjective
срав. степ. (comparative): thicker
прев. степ. (superlative): thickest

Make the bed by arranging the branches shingle-like in _very_ thick overlapping rows, convex side up, directly on the ground with _thick end_ of stems _toward_ the _foot_. ❋ Lina Beard (1888)

Her heart was touched; and once that happened nothing could exceed her capacity for sticking through what she called thick and thin to her guns. ❋ Elizabeth Von Arnim (1903)

His Highness (who is very short and what one calls thick-set) was accompanied by a secretary, a _chasseur, _ a valet, two postilions, two grooms, and four horses. ❋ Unknown (1886)

They’ve too much of what I call thick-skinned honesty for that. ❋ Unknown (1873)

We were informed that two people were stuck in what they described as thick, white mist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the chaotic aftermath of the earthquake, one presidential aide who had hid under his desk as his office collapsed around him managed to flee amid what he described as a thick plume of smoke. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some hunters still use buckshot hunting this way because shots are very close and in thick cover. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you’re hunting in thick brush a turkey gun loaded with buckshot will work great on the song dogs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I’ve gotten really close to a number of dead deeer tracking after dark in thick stuff such as a cutover, and even stumbled over a buck once on my way out, having given up and headed for the truck. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well for my answer if you are in thick stuff 30-30. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If I’m in thick brush the 30-30 all the way, if I’m shooting across an open field then it would be the 30-06. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have a Rem. 11-87 12ga., but the Mossberg is handier and the extra power from the 3 1/2 in. mag is reassuring in thick brush, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Damn] [that girl] is thick [yo]! ❋ Bryant (2002)

I’m thick and [I’m glad] [my boyfriend] likes it [that way]! ❋ Brena (2004)

in ENGLAND : ‘mate you are so thick, 1 [squared] isn’t 2′.
[in america], ( a great country, i’ve been on holiday):’that girl is thick‘*.
*(for [the english], thick in america means not skinny but not fat- a good shape) ❋ Lotti England (2007)

You’re not [fat], [hun], you’re just thick! Men’ll like [girls like you]! ❋ Katt111 (2007)

[Dat] [girl] is thick ❋ Miss Crazy Sexy Cool (2003)

Damn, watch that [thick girl] doing it [with that] [celeb]. ❋ The00’sBKJ (2008)

[damn], [that girl] is thick! ❋ Jessica (2004)

[i like] [thick thighs] ❋ Shaniese (2003)

if [you say] it’s thick, it’s [meme] [abuse] ❋ YeeterMeter (2020)

1. wow, [that woman] is thick, i want to [freak] her!
2. why are you [pushing] the door when it says pull, you’re thick! ❋ Vee Dizzle (2007)