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ADJECTIVE thick COMPARATIVE thicker SUPERLATIVE thickest
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thick

If something is thick, there is some distance from one side to the other. He was a workman with big hands and thick fingers. The tree was too thick to put his arms around. The ice on the lake is about 40 cm thick in the winter. If something is thick it has a lot of stuff in it. I am warm because I have a thick coat. The dog has beautiful, thick hair. The oil moved slowly because it was so thick. If a liquid is thick, it can't flow very quickly.

thick

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 having component parts closely crowded together a compact shopping center a dense population thick crowds a thick forest thick hair relatively dense in consistency thick cream thick soup thick smoke thick fog (= slurred) spoken as if with a thick tongue the thick speech of a drunkard his words were slurred (= midst) the location of something surrounded by other things in the midst of the crowd in quick succession misfortunes come fast and thick (= deep) (of darkness) very intense thick night thick darkness a face in deep shadow deep night abounding; having a lot of the top was thick with dust with a thick consistency the blood was flowing thick (= dense) hard to pass through because of dense growth dense vegetation thick woods (= chummy) (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 (= compact, heavyset, stocky, thickset) having a short and solid form or stature a wrestler of compact build he was tall and heavyset stocky legs a thickset young man (= blockheaded) (used informally) stupid

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Simple sentences

Did you read that thick book?
A thick fog delayed our flight.
One book is thin. The other is thick. The thick one has about 200 pages.
Faults are thick where love is thin.
It is four centimeters thick.
The air in that room was thick with the enthusiasm of the participants.
The ice was thick enough for me to walk on.
The ice is very thick.
The flight was cancelled because of the thick fog.
How thick is the board?
The ice is thick enough to walk on.
The floor is covered with a thick carpet.
There was a thick fog around.
The mucus is thick.
Boil the soup down until it becomes thick.
The soup is thick.

Movie subtitles

I think that girl with thick lips recognizes you.
Look how thick the brush is here.
You know, if I was gonna miss two family functions in a row, I'd have to lay it on pretty thick.
Laying it on pretty thick is what I do.
He's too thick-skinned.
It was so thick.
It was so thick that I could hardly see the light by my bedside.
Hey, Charlie, I wish you'd make your soup as thick as this.
If you want me to, I'll give Helstrom a tip that he's too thick with the crew.
Maybe not as thick as the ones that Joshua blew down with his trumpet.
How about a nice, thick, gooey oyster stew?
She's got some fresh orange layer cake with that thick stuff on the top.
It seems a bit thick. after the printing press and all your other generosities. but for that very reason, for the effect on the other boys.
You've got a thick skull! We'll see just how thick!
It was published in three thick volumes. A copy can be found at the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen.
The Kapteyn model was much like a thick disc.
Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy stuck together through thick and thin.
It was so thick, I could just see the lamp by the bed, a tiny spark in the fog.
They're getting too thick.
That thick bit under your hair.
Cut off to the left where it's not so thick.
You thick-fingered jackasses!
Could you find me a good piece of timber about so thick and so long?
The rocks are so thick, a fish couldn't swim between them without rubbing off his scales.
This thick sentiment. You ought to be drummed out of the service for that remark.
It makes going back just a bit too thick somehow.
Get that through your thick copper nut.
On the other hand he will look at me with a kind of thick, myopic expression. And although he is apparently listening intently.. And his eyes are wide open.
You're laying it on thick!
Maybe not as thick as the ones Joshua blew down with his trumpet. but a lot safer.
But by the way, it's a bit thick.
It was a thick book.
He had a thick night.
You've got a thick skull!
We'll see just how thick!
So is your thick skull, copper.
Give me my greatcoat and muffler. And a thick scarf for this lady.
Thick-headed lout!

News and current affairs

French companies live under the constant threat of a surprise visit from the labor inspector to determine compliance with a thick book of arcane measures.
Financial interests opposed it vigorously at the time, viewing it as the thin end of a dangerous wedge, though they could not have guessed just how thick that wedge would eventually become.
Through thick and thin, China has managed to maintain impressively high economic growth rates.
Those with thick lips?
During the US-Belgium match, emails flew fast and thick across the family network, with lots of friendly rivalry.
Regulators then shifted to edicts requiring banks to maintain a specified capital cushion, thick enough to cover potential losses.
With North Korea, the provocations continue to come thick and fast.
When the pilot of the presidential plane (ironically, again, Soviet made) was advised not to land in the thick fog, either he, or perhaps even the president himself, may have mistrusted the Russians' willingness to give honest advice.
Antarctica, though a huge continental archipelago, measuring 24 million square kilometers, and covered in ice that is 4-5 kilometers thick, is far from any inhabited continent.

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