What's the difference between thick and thickset?

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.

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.