Definition of Thick

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Definition of Thick

Thick

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.

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.

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

Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain.

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

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

Deep; profound; as, thick sleep.

Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing.

Intimate; very friendly; familiar.

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

A thicket; as, gloomy thicks.

Frequently; fast; quick.

Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.

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

To thicken.

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Thick Quotations

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Yogi Berra

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung

I'm as thick as a plank.
Princess Diana

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.
Shia LaBeouf

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
Carl Sandburg

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
Fulton J. Sheen

Thick Translations

thick in Dutch is dik, gebonden, dicht
thick in German is dicht, dick, dick
thick in Italian is grosso, impermabile
thick in Latin is creber, profundus
thick in Norwegian is tykk
thick in Portuguese is gordo, densamente
thick in Spanish is grueso, denso, espeso
thick in Swedish is tjocka, tjock

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