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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#m1)

2) Thick means growing close together: thick hair, a thick forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#m2)

3) Thick describes a liquid that does not flow easily: thick soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#m3)

4) Thick fog or smoke is hard to see through. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#m4)

5) Informally, thick means slow to understand (rude). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#x1)
- Wear a thick coat in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#x2)
- The soup is too thick; add some water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#x3)
- Thick fog covered the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#x4)
- The forest was thick with trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#x5)
- Only skate when the ice is thick enough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#x6)
- Best friends stick together through thick and thin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#x7)
- Stay low in thick smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#x8)
- It was a very, very thick trunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/13/)
- [Cork comes from the thick bark of the cork oak, peeled about every 9 years without killing the tree.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/9/)
- [Aquarium tunnels are made of acrylic many centimetres thick, strong enough to hold back millions of litres of water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays/5/)
- [Penguins also keep warm with a thick layer of fat and tightly packed waterproof feathers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/11/)
- [A warthog's «warts» are thick bumpy pads that protect its face in fights.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thick» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thick/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.