(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.
Velveteen
Definition:
(n.) A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Further selection for radiation-resistant bacteria was obtained by irradiation of bacteria on velveteen in the replication process, thereby avoiding the toxic effect of irradiated media.
(2) The velveteen replica plate technique was used for inoculation of mitomycin C-induced colonies onto agar plates, and tetrazolium chloride was used to enhance detection of phage activity on replicated indicator plates.
(3) he repeated quietly, leaning back and running his fat manicured hand along the purple velveteen arm of the sofa.
(4) Replicas prepared using this block are of higher quality than those using the velveteen-covered cylinder.
(5) This is particularly apparent early on, in the tense, cinematic inter-cutting between the killers and their victims: as Herb, the rural patriarch, consumes his usual breakfast of an apple and a glass of milk, "unaware that it would be his last", and his daughter Nancy lays out her velveteen dress for church, "the dress in which she was to be buried", the two ex-cons are racing across the wheat plains of the Midwest in their black Chevrolet sedan, Hickock high on Orange Blossoms, Smith crunching handfuls of aspirin for his grotesquely injured legs.
(6) Read the speech in full Melissa Harris-Perry, Wellesley College, 2012 If you’ve read The Velveteen Principles, then you know that everything that you need to know about how to have an authentic, successful life is actually conveyed in the book The Velveteen Rabbit.