What's the difference between teem and thick?

Teem


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.
  • (v. t.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
  • (a.) To think fit.
  • (v. i.) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
  • (v. i.) To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
  • (v. t.) To produce; to bring forth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The impressive views take in West Angle Bay, Rat Island and the whole length of Milford Haven and Man of War Roads, a 15km ship-teeming passage leading from Dale all the way to Pembroke Dock.
  • (2) Some of the cultures teemed with rounded microorganisms arranged in chains; Billroth chose to call them streptococci.
  • (3) The place was teeming with families and young children, and yet despite my best efforts to find one, I was pleased to note there didn't seem to be a Bugaboo buggy in sight.
  • (4) The story begins with the park open to visitors, teeming with them in fact, and wouldn’t you know it, on the very day we drop in, one of the big beasties breaks out, precipitating catastrophe.
  • (5) The native grasslands that teemed with marsupials and birds are now an endangered plant community.
  • (6) KP's government, backed by UN agencies, is currently on a war footing against polio in particular because Peshawar, the province's teeming capital, has become a global health problem.
  • (7) A few weeks ago this cafe and the square teemed with smugglers conducting their illicit trade in the open, and refugees negotiating prices.
  • (8) The vast construction site is like something out of Mordor – an immense wall of stone, steel and concrete that towers above a blasted plain teeming with trucks, bulldozers and cranes.
  • (9) Rooms are available on site, and the nearby town is teeming with guesthouses.
  • (10) Two possibilities of application of TEEM-test for immunological investigation in multiple sclerosis are discussed: detection of lymphocyte sensitization against a soluble antigen (3 M KCl extracted) derived from a normal brain and measurement of mixed lymphocyte reactin (MLR) after a short-time lymphocyte culture.
  • (11) The vistas that greet travellers are quite the opposite: Robinson Crusoe islands of swaying palms and snow-soft sand, shimmering azure waters and coral reefs teeming with tropical life.
  • (12) In recent years, of course, the gathering has teemed with stars, observers reporting even finance ministers stalking them with cameraphones and generally acting like teenage girls at a Justin Timberlake concert.
  • (13) In The Economy of Cities (1969), Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (1984), Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (1994) and The Nature of Economies (2000), Jacobs proposed that the natural habitat for inventive, ingenious humanity was a teeming city, arguing that livestock had been domesticated and arable farming devised in archaic trading and manufacturing cities.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grappling with grouper … diving off Garajau beach I tried scuba-diving from Garajau beach in Caniço; the clear water of this protected marine reserve is teeming with big, friendly mero (grouper) and surprisingly tropical-looking fish, such as rainbow wrasse and damsel fish.
  • (15) Nobody knows, for sure, very much about them - how many there are, where they are, how many are needed for a viable population, how they cope with modern life, or, in a country teeming with foxes and badgers, their natural predators.
  • (16) You take it for granted when you live there, but Wales is teeming with history wherever you go.
  • (17) Motion pictures were not born in religious practice, but instead are a totally profane offspring of capitalism and technology,” writes Paul Schrader in his landmark book, Transcendental Style in Film, in which he isolates two strains of religious film-making: the epics of Cecil B DeMille, presenting religion as spectacle, with teeming hordes, VistaVision, shafts of light, and strangely subdued orgies.
  • (18) The capital has become the most cosmopolitan city in the world, from top to bottom, teeming with Americans, Europeans, Australians, Asians, Africans and Arabs.
  • (19) In practice, the corridors of the parliament often teem with individuals, who meet MEPs in their offices or in open spaces such as the "Mickey Mouse bar" (nicknamed so because of the shape of its seats) inside the parliament.
  • (20) People have no concept of allowing others to pass beside them on the footpath – assuming you can find a spare inch on the footpath amongst the teeming hordes; traffic is rampant, the MRT always overcrowded, nobody looks where they’re going because they are too busy reading phones, noise of traffic and strange food smells, stifling heat and commercial pressure from advertising everywhere.

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.