Word Type
Thick can be an adverb, a noun or an adjective.
thick used as an adverb:
- In a thick manner.
"Snow lay thick on the ground." - Thickly.
"Bread should be sliced thick to make toast."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
thick used as a noun:
- The thickest, or most active or intense part of something.
"It was mayhem in the thick of battle."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
thick used as an adjective:
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
"I want some planks that are two inches thick." - Heavy in build; thickset.
"He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side." - Densely crowded or packed.
"We walked through thick undergrowth." - Having a viscous consistency.
"My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about." - Abounding in number.
"The room was thick with reporters." - Impenetrable to sight.
"We drove through thick fog." - Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
"We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent." - Stupid.
"He was as thick as two short planks." - Friendly or intimate.
"They were as thick as thieves." - Deep. intense, or profound.
"Thick darkness."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
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What type of word is thick?
- Adverb usage: Snow lay thick on the ground.
- Adverb usage: Bread should be sliced thick to make toast.
- Noun usage: It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
- Adjective usage: I want some planks that are two inches thick.
- Adjective usage: He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.
- Adjective usage: We walked through thick undergrowth.
- Adjective usage: My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.
- Adjective usage: The room was thick with reporters.
- Adjective usage: We drove through thick fog.
- Adjective usage: We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent.
- Adjective usage: He was as thick as two short planks.
- Adjective usage: They were as thick as thieves.
- Adjective usage: Thick darkness.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of thick are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of thick, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
