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thickbill |
thicken |
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thickening
| thicket
| thicket-forming
| thickhead
| thickheaded
| thickish
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun thickening has 3 senses
- thickening(n = noun.substance) thickener - any material used to thicken; "starch is used in cooking as a thickening" is a kind of material, stuff
- thickening(n = noun.shape) knob, node - any thickened enlargement; Array is a kind of convex shape, convexity
- thickening(n = noun.act) inspissation - the act of thickening; Array is a kind of condensation, condensing
Derived forms verb thicken1, verb thicken3
Adjective thickening has 2 senses
- thickening(s = adj.all) deepening - accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the thickening dusk"
- thickening(s = adj.all) Array - becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot"
CIDE DICTIONARY
thickening, n.
Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
thickening, n.
1 the process of becoming thick or thicker.
2 a substance used to thicken liquid.
3 a thickened part.
1 the process of becoming thick or thicker.
2 a substance used to thicken liquid.
3 a thickened part.
THESAURUS
thickening
adhesiveness, clabbering, clamminess, clotting, coagulation, colloidality, concretion, congealment, congelation, curdling, doughiness, gelatination, gelatinity, gelatinization, gelatinousness, gelling, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, gumlikeness, gumminess, heaviness, incrassation, inspissation, jellification, jelling, jellying, jellylikeness, lentor, mucilaginousness, pastiness, ropiness, setting, slabbiness, sliminess, spissitude, stickiness, stodginess, stringiness, syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, thickness, toughness, treacliness, viscidity, viscosity, viscousnessROGET THESAURUS
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Density
N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.Semiliquidity
N semiliquidity, stickiness, viscidity, viscosity, gummosity, glutinosity, mucosity, spissitude, crassitude, lentor, adhesiveness, inspissation, incrassation, thickening, jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten, carlock, fish glue, ichthyocol, ichthycolla, isinglass, mucus, phlegm, goo, pituite, lava, glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein, treacle, gum, size, glue (tenacity), wax, beeswax, emulsion, soup, squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze, moisture, marsh, semifluid, semiliquid, tremellose, half melted, half frozen, milky, muddy, lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous, emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous, gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous, glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted, viscid, viscous, sticky, tacky, gooey, slab, slabby, lentous, pituitous, mucid, muculent, mucous, gummy.
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