English Dictionary
◊ THICK
thick
adj 1: not thin; of relatively great extent from one surface to the
opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid
dimensions; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich";
"spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of
dust"; "thick warm blankets"; or of a specific
thickness; "an inch thick" [ant: {thin}]
2: closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a
dense population"; "thick crowds" [syn: {compact}, {dense}]
3: relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick
soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog" [ant: {thin}]
4: spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a
drunkard"; "his words were slurred" [syn: {slurred}]
5: wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark" [syn: {heavy}]
6: hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense
vegetation"; "thick woods" [syn: {dense}]
7: (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness";
"a face in deep shadow"; "deep night" [syn: {deep}]
8: abundant; "a thick head of hair"
9: heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact
build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a
thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man" [syn: {compact},
{heavyset}, {stocky}, {thickset}]
10: (used informally) associated on close terms; "a close
friend"; "the bartender was chummy with the regular
customers"; "the two were thick as thieves for months"
[syn: {chummy}, {thick(p)}]
11: used informally [syn: {blockheaded}, {boneheaded}, {fatheaded},
{loggerheaded}, {thickheaded}, {thick-skulled}, {wooden-headed}]
12: abundantly covered of filled; "the top was thick with dust"
n : the location of something surrounded by other things; "in
the midst of the crowd" [syn: {midst}]
adv 1: with a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick"
[syn: {thickly}] [ant: {thinly}]
2: in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick" [syn:
{thickly}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN TICK?
tick
1. A {jiffy} (sense 1). 2. In simulations, the discrete unit
of time that passes between iterations of the simulation
mechanism. In AI applications, this amount of time is often
left unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is the
ordering of events. This sort of AI simulation is often
pejoratively referred to as "tick-tick-tick" simulation,
especially when the issue of simultaneity of events with long,
independent chains of causes is {handwave}d. 3. In the FORTH
language, a single quote character.
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