Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being thick.
- noun The dimension between two surfaces of an object, usually the dimension of smallest measure.
- noun A layer, sheet, stratum, or ply.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reduce to a uniform thickness before dressing to shape: said of boards and timber.
- noun In mining, the distance at right angles to the drift or adit measured from the roof or hanging wall to the foot wall in a lode vein or lens.
- noun The state or property of being thick, in any sense; specifically, that dimension of a solid body which is at right angles both to its length and to its breadth; the third or least dimension of a solid.
- noun That which is thick; the thick of anything; the dense, heavy, deep, or solid part.
- noun A fold, layer, or sheet, as of cloth or paper.
- noun In founding, the sand or loam placed temporarily in a mold while it is being prepared for easting. It is afterward removed, and its place is filled with the molten metal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The property of being
thick (in dimension). - noun uncountable A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
- noun countable A layer.
- noun uncountable The quality of being thick (in consistency).
- noun uncountable, informal The property of being thick (slow to understand).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun indistinct articulation
- noun the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width
- noun resistance to flow
- noun used of a line or mark
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Examples
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As this elementary thickness is not known with a precision greater than 4 per cent, it seems impossible to verify the law above a certain thickness.
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We took a bunch of odd pieces and scraps, trimmed the fat off (important to get the fat off), and cut the pieces into two and three inch strips that varied in thickness but probably averaged a quarter inch.
Deer Candy: Phil Bourjaily's Favorite Venison Jerky Recipe 2009
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On the ground before me was a bar of iron, as big in thickness as my arm, and a long step away was another bar of iron —
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The paper should be good and charming as paper; the Dutch paper is too unequal in thickness for accurate printing, and the good French papers a trifle hard - The English papers of Batchelor & Arnold cannot be matched out of this country
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On the ground before me was a bar of iron, as big in thickness as my arm, and a long step away was another bar of iron —
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The paper should be good and charming as paper; the Dutch paper is too unequal in thickness for accurate printing, and the good French papers a trifle hard - The English papers of Batchelor & Arnold cannot be matched out of this country
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The study found that it caused an increase in thickness of the prefrontal cortex in the brain, the part just above the eyes and associated with attention.
David R. Hamilton, Ph.D.: How Meditation Affects the Gray Matter of the Brain Ph.D. David R. Hamilton 2010
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We took a bunch of odd pieces and scraps, trimmed the fat off (important to get the fat off), and cut the pieces into two and three inch strips that varied in thickness but probably averaged a quarter inch.
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The study found that it caused an increase in thickness of the prefrontal cortex in the brain, the part just above the eyes and associated with attention.
David R. Hamilton, Ph.D.: How Meditation Affects the Gray Matter of the Brain Ph.D. David R. Hamilton 2010
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To do this, roll the dough out to about 1 inch in thickness, wrap tightly in plastic wrap, and freeze.
a danish braid for the daring bakers myriam 2008
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