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thick | American Dictionary

thick
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
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thickadjective[-er/-est only] (DEEP)

having a large distance from one side of something to the opposite side:
a thick book/steak
The walls are a foot thick.

thickadjective[-er/-est only] (CLOSE TOGETHER)

(of particular things) close together with little space between them:
a thick fog
She had wonderful, thick, brown hair.

thickadjective[-er/-est only] (NOT FLOWING)

(of a liquid) not flowing easily:
thick gravy/soup
fig. If your voice is thick, it is lower than usual and not as even, usually because you are feeling a strong emotion:
Tony could hardly speak, and when he did his voice was thick with emotion.

Examples of thick

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Concentrations of accretionary lapilli and diffuse trains of small pumices define bedding in this thick ash bed.
If a thick sense of welfare is used, then it is unlikely that competition will maximize it.
The particles used in each experiment were placed on the wind tunnel surface, forming a layer roughly 2 cm thick.
The endosperm has a very thick peripheral cell wall (cw).
Numerous thin sandstone beds (in general about 10 cm thick) are separated by thicker units of flaser-bedded siltstones and mudstones.
The individual ignimbrite sequences are up to 200 m thick.
This book is smaller, but still relatively thick (five by seven by one inch), with over 350 pages.
During winter, this layer is relatively thick, due to strong mixing caused by storms and by convective overturning.
Thirdly, the 3.8 m thick unit has an overall sheet-like geometry, with no evidence of channelization or scour at the base.
The magmatic activity built up one, or several, submarine edifices, > 200 m thick.
The internal and external elastic laminae are thick concentric elastic-fibre layers that separate the intima and media, and the media and adventitia, respectively.
The target was a flat thick foil placed perpendicularly to the beam, which could be moved along the x and y direction by external motions.
This involves rearrangement of the proteins that constitute the thin and thick filaments as well as those that make up the intermediate filaments.
After opening the pleura, large tortuous venous vessels as thick as a finger were seen.
The thick diagonal line separates the traditional orientations ofprocessual archaeology (left) from those of post-processual archaeology (right).
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