| query | T____ clothes are made from heavy cloth, so that they will keep you warm in cold weather .Thick clothes are made from heavy cloth, so that they will keep you warm in cold weather . In the winter she wears thick socks, Wellington boots and gloves. She wore a thick tartan skirt and a red cashmere sweater. |
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| word | thick |
| full-definition | adjective Something that is thick has a large distance between its two opposite sides. For breakfast I had a thick slice of bread and syrup. He wore glasses with thick rims. This material is very thick and this needle is not strong enough to go through it. An old man sat in a great carved armchair of black wood, thickly padded with soft cushions. Slice the meat thickly. You can use thick to talk or ask about how wide or deep something is. The folder was two inches thick. How thick are these walls? ...a finger as thick as a sausage. His life was saved by a quarter-inch-thick bullet-proof steel screen. The size of the fish will determine the thickness of the steaks. The egg had a shell thickness of 0.14mm and the newly-hatched chick weighed nine grams. ...a layer of gases about 200 miles in thickness. If something that consists of several things is thick, it has a large number of them very close together. She inherited our father's thick, wavy hair. They walked through thick forest. I rounded a bend where the trees and brush grew thickly. The interior flatlands and valleys are thickly planted with coconuts. If something is thick with another thing, the first thing is full of or covered with the second. The air is thick with acrid smoke from the fires. She ate scones thick with butter. Thick clothes are made from heavy cloth, so that they will keep you warm in cold weather . In the winter she wears thick socks, Wellington boots and gloves. She wore a thick tartan skirt and a red cashmere sweater. Thick smoke, fog, or cloud is difficult to see through. The smoke was bluish-black and thick. It wasn't very thick fog. Thick liquids are fairly stiff and solid and do not flow easily . They had to battle through thick mud to reach construction workers. The sauce is thick and rich so don't bother trying to diet. If someone's voice is thick, they are not speaking clearly, for example because they are ill, upset, or drunk. When he spoke his voice was thick with bitterness. 'It's all my fault,' he mumbled thickly. A thick accent is very obvious and easy to identify . He answered our questions in English but with a thick accent. 'What do you want?' a teenage girl demanded in a thick German accent. If you describe someone as thick, you think they are stupid . How could she have been so thick? |
| inflections | thickerthickestthicklythicknessthicknessesthicklythickly |
| cefr-level | A2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a2
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