Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
from The 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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• Use sweet rice flour to replace the traditional wheat flour in thickening gravy.
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Little Wolf-Willow's head was whirling, his brain thickening, his fingers clutching aimlessly.
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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.
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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.
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BRODSKY: ... mild mitral valve thickening, which is a heart defect.
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To that end, I specifically raise concerns about the so-called thickening of the Canada-U.S. border.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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