Lexic.us

Definition of Thickening

1. Noun. Any material used to thicken. "Starch is used in cooking as a thickening"

2. Adjective. Accumulating and becoming more intense. "The thickening dusk"

3. Noun. Any thickened enlargement.

4. Adjective. Becoming more intricate or complex. "A thickening plot"

5. Noun. The act of thickening.

Definition of Thickening

1. n. Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.

Definition of Thickening

1. Noun. the process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous ¹

2. Noun. a substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce ¹

3. Noun. a thickened part of a structure ¹

4. Verb. (past of thicken) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thickening

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thickening

thick skin thick small bowel folds thick space thick spaces thick wind thickbill thickbills thicke thicked thickened

thickened duodenal folds thickened gastric folds thickener thickeners thickening thickening(a) thickening agent thickening agents thickenings thickens

thicker thickest thicket thicket tinamou thicket tinamous thicketed thicketization thickets thickety

Literary usage of Thickening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1905)
"(c) PLEURAL Thickening. In persons who have previously suffered from pleurisy ... Occasionally a similar thickening may be demonstrated throughout the whole ..."

2. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1909)
"(c) PLEURAL Thickening. In persons who have previously suffered from pleurisy ... Occasionally a similar thickening may be demonstrated throughout the whole ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Annular vessels are those in which the thickening (or, if it be loosened from the ... In the process of thickening of the cell-nail, if large spaces of tho ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1890)
"RHEUMATIC TIC CONVULSIF WITH Thickening OF THE TRUNK OF THE FACIAL NERVE. ... He looks upon migraine seizures as due to thickening in branches of the ..."

5. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"Together with the gradually increasing thickening of the skin (up to 5 cm. thick) the subcutaneous connective tissue atrophies, the fat layer disappears ..."

6. The Universal Etymological English Dictionary: Containing an Additional ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1737)
"L. , CONDEMNATORY, of aconi ing Nature. L. CONDENSATION, thickening making any natural Body take up leu! or confining it within lefs ..."

7. Guide to the Study of Insects: And a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1870)
"These tubercles result from a simple thickening of the blastoderm, and what is ultimately destined to be the back (tergum) of the animal, arises from a ..."

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