What's the difference between stout and thickset?

Stout


Definition:

  • (superl.) Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.
  • (superl.) Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard.
  • (superl.) Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
  • (superl.) Large; bulky; corpulent.
  • (n.) A strong malt liquor; strong porter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Second, Stout felt that the high mitotic rate was the best predictor of malignancy, but he recognized that some tumors, even with low rates, could metastasize.
  • (2) The cell bodies are usually between 8 and 10 mu in diameter and have dividing pseudopodial processes which may be broad or narrow, flat or stout, smooth or varicosed.
  • (3) The Lib Dems and Labour, after frantic consultations, announced they would table alternative amendments to introduce an element of statute and ensure the new press regulatory body was free from industry interference – two issues that the majority of newspaper proprietors have stoutly opposed.
  • (4) It also highlights law professor Lynn Stout’s recent book, The Shareholder Value Myth .
  • (5) Stout – even the name is robust: broad-mouthed and curtly clipped at the end.
  • (6) Tune into BBC1 on Sunday morning and you will find the corporation complicit in Marr's convalescent strategy of stout denial.
  • (7) Against my will I had to keep watching those two black companions who persistently marked out our movements ahead of us, like walking silhouettes, and it gave me – our feelings are sometimes so childish – a certain reassurance to see that my shadow was longer, slimmer, I almost said "better-looking", than the short, stout shadow of my companion.
  • (8) A stout man with close-cropped hair, Jones was dressed in denim, his temples soaked with sweat.
  • (9) Heat the sugar, cocoa powder, double cream, stout and salt in a small pan until scalding.
  • (10) Aside from history enthusiasts and couples seeking privacy from the crowded city, few enter the red sandstone gate between the fort’s stout bastions.
  • (11) Chocolate stout pudding (above) Admittedly, with summer creeping in and temperatures rising, it's hardly pudding season.But I'm a firm believer in the restorative powers of stodge, and I'd hate for the pleasures of pudding – steamed sponges, sticky toffee, spotted dick and custard – to be out of bounds for part of the year.
  • (12) This investigation is a replication and extension of an earlier study by Stout, Holmes, and Rothstein (1977) of the predoctoral clinical psychology intern graduates at the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute.
  • (13) The differential diagnosis of the morphological substrate is discussed and the preference of the termination introduced by Stout and Lattes is established.
  • (14) The pyriform cells had a short stem from which extended 4-5 stout dendrites, while the fusiform cells extended similar dendrites from the soma.
  • (15) All these characters are fictionalised, but they are based on real people: Frank Stokes is modelled on George Stout ; Campbell on Robert K. Posey ; Garfield on Walker Hancock ; Granger on James Rorimer .
  • (16) There’s nothing flash or trendy about it, just an immaculate, traditionally brewed, higher alcohol stout; a reminder that, for all the cool stuff going on in the beer world today, you can always learn from the past.
  • (17) At the pub on the island there was a concertina-player and we got the feeling – fuelled by pints of rich dark stout – that we were being absorbed into a community.
  • (18) The stout-candied air, high beams and heavy pews are reminiscent of church-scale pubs on Galway’s Quay Street, but the beams are hung with Arthurian standards.
  • (19) Cysteines 358, 421, and 424 are ligands to the Fe-S cluster in the inactive [3Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proteins 5, 289-312) and active [4Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proc.
  • (20) Solid and traditional, all acres of dark wood and stained glass, it prides itself on its list of around 18 mainly bottled Irish beers from such breweries as Kinsale, Hilden, Station Works, Farmageddon, Clever Man (look out for its Ejector Seat turf-smoked stout) and Hercules.

Thickset


Definition:

  • (a.) Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.
  • (a.) Having a short, thick body; stout.
  • (n.) A close or thick hedge.
  • (n.) A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the bus station in Mochis, Luca and I are greeted by two thickset men who identify themselves as the Ace's bodyguards.
  • (2) Woven together, they provided a near-comprehensive record of Tomlinson's final moments alive, as well as the descent into aggression of his assailant, Harwood, a van driver who, in a period of just eight minutes, became detached from his vehicle and lashed out at several protesters including a BBC cameraman he pulled to the ground, before setting eyes on the thickset frame of Tomlinson shuffling along a pedestrianised street.
  • (3) When I returned to the complex and walked back to the smaller building, which bore a sign reading “Federal State Unitary Enterprise Anti-Doping Centre”, a thickset man who said he was a member of the anti-doping lab’s security confronted me, taking my photograph on a phone, asking if I was a “spy”, and ordering me to leave.
  • (4) Russian agents are thickset, low-browed and facially scarred.
  • (5) Click here to watch title sequence Goldfinger has the best henchman – Japanese-born Harold Sakata as Oddjob, the thickset Korean with the deadly steel-rimmed bowler.
  • (6) Asked for his name, the thickset man said he was “Bender Zadunaisky”, a reference to the con man protagonist from the classic novels by Ilf and Petrov.