Search Result for "thickening":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
1. any material used to thicken;
- Example: "starch is used in cooking as a thickening"
[syn: thickening, thickener]
2. any thickened enlargement;
[syn: node, knob, thickening]
3. the act of thickening;
[syn: thickening, inspissation]
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. accumulating and becoming more intense;
- Example: "the deepening gloom"
- Example: "felt a deepening love"
- Example: "the thickening dusk"
[syn: deepening(a), thickening(a)]
2. becoming more intricate or complex;
- Example: "a thickening plot"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Thicken \Thick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Thickening.] To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. [1913 Webster] (b) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. [1913 Webster] (c) To strengthen; to confirm. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] And this may to thicken other proofs. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (d) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Thickening \Thick"en*ing\, n. Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "thickening": adhesiveness, clabbering, clamminess, clotting, coagulation, colloidality, concretion, congealment, congelation, curdling, doughiness, gelatination, gelatinity, gelatinization, gelatinousness, gelling, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, gumlikeness, gumminess, heaviness, incrassation, inspissation, jellification, jelling, jellying, jellylikeness, lentor, mucilaginousness, pastiness, ropiness, setting, slabbiness, sliminess, spissitude, stickiness, stodginess, stringiness, syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, thickness, toughness, treacliness, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness
