Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of making or becoming thick.
- n. Material used to thicken: stir in a thickening of flour and water.
- n. A thickened part.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or process of making or becoming thick.
- n. A substance used in making thick; specifically, in dyeing and calico-printing, same as thickener.
- n. That which has become thick.
Wiktionary
- n. the process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous
- n. a substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce
- n. a thickened part of a structure
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of thicken.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. accumulating and becoming more intense
- n. the act of thickening
- n. any thickened enlargement
- adj. becoming more intricate or complex
- n. any material used to thicken
Examples
“• Use sweet rice flour to replace the traditional wheat flour in thickening gravy.”
“Little Wolf-Willow's head was whirling, his brain thickening, his fingers clutching aimlessly.”
“A group of Canadian officials is calling for the appointment of special ambassadors on both sides of the border to help deal with what they call the thickening of international crossings.”
“21Blau had previously acknowledged the role of the photographic giant Ilford in thickening emulsion layers on the photographic plates to make the entire particle tracks visible.”
“BRODSKY: ... mild mitral valve thickening, which is a heart defect.”
“To that end, I specifically raise concerns about the so-called thickening of the Canada-U.S. border.”
“As with all fermented milks, the thickening is an indication that the product has reached a certain acidity 0.8%, pH 4.6 and so a distinct tartness.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“Hence aqueous bodies do not thicken when they solidify; for thickening occurs when the moisture goes off and the dry matter comes together, but water is the only liquid that does not thicken.”
“Recently, there has been much publicity suggesting that breast implants made of silicone gel may trigger autoimmune diseases in women, including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and scleroderma, a connective tissue disease characterized by the thickening of the skin.”
“LB's veterinarian speculated that he died of "hyptertrophic cardiomyopathy," or HCM, a disease characterized by a thickening of the heart wall.”
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