thick

«thick» in Mova's school dictionary: having a large distance between its two sides: a thick… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (thick, thicker, thickest); adverb (thick)

meaning for a pupil

1) Thick means having a large distance between its two sides: a thick book, a thick wall. tree →

2) Thick means growing close together: thick hair, a thick forest. tree →

3) Thick describes a liquid that does not flow easily: thick soup. tree →

4) Thick fog or smoke is hard to see through. tree →

5) Informally, thick means slow to understand (rude). tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths and measuring, thickness is how far it is through something, measured in millimetres or centimetres. In science and cooking, a thick liquid is viscous, like honey. In safety, thick ice is safer than thin ice, and thick smoke in a fire means stay low. Phrases: «through thick and thin» (in good and bad times), «in the thick of» (in the busiest part), «thick as thieves» (very close friends).

examples

• This dictionary is very thick. tree →
• Wear a thick coat in winter. tree →
• The soup is too thick; add some water. tree →
• Thick fog covered the road. tree →
• The forest was thick with trees. tree →
• Only skate when the ice is thick enough. tree →
• Best friends stick together through thick and thin. tree →
• Stay low in thick smoke. tree →
• It was a very, very thick trunk. tree →

note

Opposite: thin. Comparison: thicker, thickest. Calling someone «thick» is an insult — avoid it. In a maths problem «a 2 cm thick book» gives its depth from cover to cover.

In the corpora

• The Antarctic ice sheet is over 4 km thick in places and holds about 70 per cent of the world's fresh water.
• Cork comes from the thick bark of the cork oak, peeled about every 9 years without killing the tree.
• Aquarium tunnels are made of acrylic many centimetres thick, strong enough to hold back millions of litres of water.
• Penguins also keep warm with a thick layer of fat and tightly packed waterproof feathers.
• A warthog's «warts» are thick bumpy pads that protect its face in fights.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thick» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.