thick

CEFRA1

/θɪk/

adjective

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  1. 01

    adjective

    Having a large distance between opposite sides.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Containing many things close together.

Examples

  • One book is thin. The other is thick. The thick one has about 200 pages.

  • The paintings were concealed beneath a thick layer of plaster.

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Heavy in build; thickset.

  2. Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.

  3. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

More examples

In context

  • There was a thick fog around.

  • He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.

  • I want some planks that are two inches thick.

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian sjok, tjok, tjuk, tschok (“thick”), Saterland Frisian tjuk (“thick”), West Frisian dik, tuuk (“thick”), Central Franconian deck (“thick”), Cimbrian dikh, dikhe (“thick”), Dutch dik (“thick”), German dick (“thick”), Luxembourgish déck (“thick”), Yiddish דיק (dik, “thick”), Danish tyk (“thick”), Elfdalian tiokk (“thick”), Faroese tjúkkur (“thick”), Icelandic þykkur (“thick”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk tjukk, tykk (“thick”), Scanian tjykker (“thick”), Swedish tjock...