(a.) Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
(a.) Headstrong.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since taking office as prime minister for the second time a year ago, stocky, tousle-haired Abe, 59, has avoided hotheaded actions and kept his political powder dry.
(2) A stocky man with a round face and belly, and skinny legs revealed beneath his shorts, he answered to Dr T or, among friends, Johnny, and when he smiled, his eyes crinkled nearly shut.
(3) Malatesta, a short, stocky Australian never seen without a hat, nods sagely.
(4) Stocky and shaven-headed, Clapper is part boardroom, part boxer.
(5) A 53-year-old man with a short stocky build, mild mental retardation, gynecomastia and hypogonadism was found to have a small ring Y chromosome unassociated with mosaicism.
(6) The patient had such clinical manifestations as short stature with low body weight, thin limbs and stocky trunk, senile face, early graying hair, highpitched voice, bilateral cataracts, osteoporosis, sclerodermia-like signs, flat feet, tendency toward diabetes mellitus and parental consanguinity.
(7) The stocky, powerful dwarf inexorably cuts through foes, for instance – a far cry from the speedy elf's approach or the wizard's all-encompassing magic.
(8) Batmanglij, who was born to Iranian émigré parents 29 years ago and grew up in Washington DC, is short and stocky with close-cropped black hair.
(9) He is a stocky, soft-cheeked 34-year-old Korean man wearing a shiny dinner jacket, co-respondent shoes without socks and enough make-up to make Katie Price seem like an ambassador for the natural look.
(10) Patrons were categorized by visual appraisal into forty-eight cross-classified groups according to sex (male, female), body build (slender, sturdy, stocky, obese), height (tall, average, short), and age (less than and more than thirty years of age).
(11) In person he's quite offhand, an odd mixture of shy and intensely self-assured, and with his stocky build and salt-and-pepper beard he conveys the impression of a very clever badger, burrowing away in the undergrowth of economic detail, ready to give quite a sharp bite if you get in his way.
(12) And we shouldn’t forget that.” Stocky, balding and, though a good decade older, every bit as passionate about his dairying as Jones, Hook operates a profoundly different business model.
(13) Facebook employee Tom Stocky took paternity leave for four months to stay at home with his first child.
(14) The red caps are led by Christian Troadec, a stocky former journalist who has been mayor of Carhaix on a leftwing ticket for 12 years.
(15) He speaks with a London accent and is of stocky build.
(16) Thus, all the stocky muscles lying close to an articulation do not behave in the same way.
(17) Boukadida, a short, stocky man with a full beard, was trying to escape arrest when pushed from a second-floor window by police in his home town of Sousse in November.
(18) The "world team" played lackadaisical football, letting passes slide through and melting away whenever Kadyrov, stocky and heavy on his feet, had the ball.
(19) He is of stocky build and has a tattoo on his hand.
(20) The room was full of sunlight, and now I saw him clearly: a stocky man, thirties, unkempt, with a round friendly face and unruly hair.
Thick
Definition:
(superl.) Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick.
(superl.) Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.
(superl.) Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness.
(superl.) Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain.
(superl.) Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring.
(superl.) Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.
(superl.) Deep; profound; as, thick sleep.
(superl.) Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing.
(superl.) Intimate; very friendly; familiar.
(n.) The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.
(n.) A thicket; as, gloomy thicks.
(adv.) Frequently; fast; quick.
(adv.) Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.
(adv.) To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure.
(v. t. & i.) To thicken.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
(2) An increase in membrane thickness was observed on phosphorylation.
(3) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(4) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(5) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(6) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
(7) At 7 days axonal swellings were infrequently observed and the main structural feature was a reduction in myelin thickness in affected nerve fibers.
(8) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(9) The NAD-dependent enzymes (except alpha-GPDH) showed a stronger reactivity in the proximal tubules, while the NADP-dependent ones were more reactive in the thick limb of Henle's loop and distal convoluted tubules.
(10) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(11) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(12) The degree of overlap varies with the thickness of the arborization and is in the order of 1-2 mu.
(13) The spatial resolution of a NaI(T1), 25 mm thick bar detector designed for use in positron emission tomography has been studied.
(14) In the longitudinal direction, however, spatial resolution of under slice thickness could not be obtained.
(15) Thus, multiparae had very thick border zones composed predominantly of large nodules and, additionally, of vacuolated cells and fibrous tissue.
(16) The thickness of the media in the groups behaves like the number of nuclei: in hypertension with the highest values, there is no significant decrease as far as the 8th cross-section, while in the coronary sclerosis and third decade groups the values come closer together after the 6th cross-section.
(17) A model for left ventricular diastolic mechanics is formulated that takes into account noneligible wall thickness, incompressibility, finite deformation, nonlinear elastic effects, and the known fiber architecture of the ventricular wall.
(18) These force-generators are identified with projections (cross-bridges) on the thick filament, each consisting of part of a myosin molecule.
(19) Piretanide blocks the Na+ 2Cl- K+ cotransporter protein in the thick ascending limb (TAL) of the loop of Henle reversibly.
(20) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.