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 manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
Steve Jobs
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon
The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Yogi Berra
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
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
Taylor Swift
I'm as thick as a plank.
Princess Diana
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
Samuel Beckett
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
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
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
Daniel Boone
At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.
Carrie Underwood
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
Fulton J. Sheen
Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.
David Beckham
I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick, t like my body.
Alicia Keys
If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.
Brian Greene
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Erica Jong
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Lord Chesterfield
Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.
Ivan Pavlov
In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
John Irving
We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it.
Tom Metzger
But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit.
Denise Richards
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
There's a reason screens are only this thick.
John Malkovich
The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
Naomi Campbell
Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.
Frank Langella
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 shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.
Sara Blakely
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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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