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Definitions: Thickening |
ThickeningAdjective1. Accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the gathering darkness"; "the thickening dusk". 2. Becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot". Noun1. Any material used to thicken; "starch is used in cooking as a thickening". 2. Any thickened enlargement. 3. The act of thickening. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thickening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
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Industry | Removal of water from a fibre suspension by drainage, excess pressure or suction on a screen wire or screen plate. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | The primary purpose of -- is to increase the concentration of a relatively large quantity of suspended solid in a feed stream. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The process of concentrating a relatively dilute slime pulp into a thick pulp, i.e., one containing a smaller percentage of moisture, by rejecting liquid that is substantially solid free. Settling is another name for the same operation b. The concentration of the solids in a suspension with a view to recovering one fraction with a higher concentration of solids than in theoriginal suspension i.e., one containing a smaller percentage of moisture, by rejecting liquid that is substantially solid free. Settling is another name for the same operation. (references) |
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Synonyms: ThickeningSynonyms: deepening(a) (adj), gathering(a) (adj), thickening(a) (adj), inspissation (n), knob (n), node (n), thickener (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Density | Condensation; caseation; solidation, solidification; consolidation; concretion, coagulation; petrification. (hardening); crystallization, precipitation; deposit, precipitate; inspissation; gelation, thickening. Verb: |
Semiliquidity | Inspissation, incrassation; thickening. |
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 | Left ventricle has been cut open to display characteristic severe thickening of mitral valve, thickened chordae tendineae, and hypertrophied left ventricular myocardium. Autopsy.Credit: CDC. |  | One of the histopathologic characteristics of pinta, a nonvenereal treponemal disease contracted through direct contact with infectious lesions containing the bacterium Treponema carateum, is thickening of the epidermis.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | You might experience a thickening around your waist. (references) | |
Scleroderma--a thickening and hardening of the skin and other body tissues. (references) | ||
Patchy areas of alveolar septal thickening and prominent hyaline membranes. (references) | ||
Business | By the year 2000, polymers and surfactants used in triple-crude production and thickening oil production were to reach 50-60,000 tons and 100,000 tons, respectively. (references) | |
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| "Thickening" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 51.22% of the time. "Thickening" is used about 123 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 51.22% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Noun (singular) | 31.71% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.26% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.81% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 123 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "thickening": shear thickening ♦ Skin thickening ♦ thickening agent. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "thickening": thickening-out. | |
Ending with "thickening": ever-thickening, over-thickening. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "thickening"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trashje (condensation, fixation, obesity, obtuseness), trashim, trashësi (consistency, fat, fatness, fleshiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تكثيف (concentration, condensation, intensification), تغليظ, تخثر (cake, clot, coagulate, congealment, curd, curdle, freeze, gel, thrombocyte, thrombosis), تثخين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сгъстяване (coagulation, compression, condensation, evaporation, fixation), тепане. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 变厚 (thicken, thickened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | opstukning (cold heading, heading, upsetting), afvanding (dehydrating, dehydration, drainage, draining, highway drainage, land drying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | opstuiken (heading, to jump, to upset, upsetting), inlopen (undesirable settling down), indikken (to inspissate, to thicken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sullonta, sakeutus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | épaississement (shear thickening), épaississant (thicken, thickener, thickening agent), épaississage, épaissement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verdickung (bulge, coagulation, curdling, setting, strengthening, swelling, widening), verdickend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπύκνωση (compression, condensation), πύκνωση (condensation), πάχυνση (bodying, fattening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עבוי (condensation, intumescene), אבוך (heterodyning), התעבות (condensation), הרבכה, הסמכה (bringing near, commission, graduation, ordination), בלילה (mixing, mixture, twirl), רביכה, צפוף (compacting, congested, crowded, dense, making dense, packed, thick, thickset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vastagodás (expansion, nipple), habarás (liaison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ispessimento, addensamento (compactness, congestion, consolidation, crowding, densification, level of compaction, overcrowding, state of compaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 肥厚 (thickening of the skin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひこう (aviation, delinquency, introduction of poems at a poetry party, misconduct, thickening of the skin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 두껍게 함. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | stoo clannee, roauyraghey (fatten, fattening, fill out, thicken, thicken as wool), clanneyder (colonizer, thickener). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ickeningthay espessamento (bodying, piling), engrossamento. (various references) îngroşare (node). (various references) утолщение (boss, bulb, node, nodosity, nub), сгущение (compression, concentration, concretion, condensation, jellification). (various references) zgusnuće (condensation), zgušnjavanje (concentration, concretion, jellification), zadebljanje (callosity). (various references) espesamiento (dewatering, drainage, feeding, inspissation, livering), espesado (inspissated). (various references) tjock klump, förtjockning. (various references) การทำให้เข้มข้นขึ้น. (various references) yoğunlaştırma (condensation, intensification), yoğunlaşma (concentration, condensation, polarity), katılaşmış yer, kalınlaşma, şişlik (blain, boss, chilblain, intumescence, protuberance, proud flesh, puff, puffiness, rising, swelling, turgescence). (various references) згущувач, згущення (coagulation, concentration, concretion, condensation), потовщення (node, nodosity, nose, nub, thickness). (various references) chỗ dày đặc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "thickening": thickenings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thickening" (pronounced thi"kuning or thi"kning) |
| 6 | -i" k u n i ng | quickening, sickening. |
| 5 | -k u n i ng | awakening, beckoning, blackening, darkening, likening, reawakening, reckoning, slackening, weakening. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | abandoning, apportioning, auctioning, auditioning, bargaining, battening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fastening, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, listening, loosening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, rationing, reasoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, siphoning, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, whitening, widening, worsening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-i-k-n-n-t" | |
-2 letters: chinking, enticing, thinking. | |
-3 letters: chining, etching, henting, hinting, ichnite, inching, itching, kinetic, kinetin, kitchen, kithing, necking, niching, nicking, nightie, nitchie, thicken, ticking. | |
-4 letters: chitin, citing, eching, echini, ethnic, hieing, hiking, ignite, incite, inking, intine, kiting, knight, tieing, tining. | |
-5 letters: chine, chink, eight, eking, ethic, genic, genii, hinge, icing, kench, ketch, kinin, kithe, neigh, niche. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-h-i-i-k-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: thickenings. | |
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