English-Danish translations for thick

• tyk
  Kort sagt håber jeg, at De også vil sikre, at tankskibet på en eller anden måde kan tappes for olie, da der er tale om en tyk råolie. In short, I hope that, given this thick crude oil, you will also ensure that oil can possibly be drained from the actual tanker.
  Hr. formand, jeg føler med gallerne og de mennesker, som er i færd med at fjerne den olie, som er mere end 1 m tyk. Mr President, my heart goes out to the Galicians, and to the people who are clearing up the oil, which is now more than a metre thick.
  For udenforstående er dette en ufattelig teknisk sag med næsten 800 ændringsforslag. En sagsmappe, som er mindst 10 cm tyk. To outsiders, this is an impenetrable technical dossier with no fewer than 800 amendments or thereabouts; a document at least 10 cm thick.
• tykt
  Flodens overflade er dækket af et tykt lag skum. Thick foam floats on the surface of the river.
  Jeg er vant til at lede afstemningen, men jeg har aldrig set et så tykt dossier til en enkelt betænkning. I am used to chairing the vote, but I have never seen such a thick dossier for a single report.
  For to uger siden kunne man se et halv meter tykt lag skum på floden, hvilket er et tydeligt udtryk herfor. Two weeks ago, we could see a layer of foam half a metre thick on the river, clearly highlighting this fact.

Definition of thick

• Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension
• Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension
• Heavy in build; thickset
• Densely crowded or packed
• Having a viscous consistency
• Abounding in number
• Impenetrable to sight
• Of an accent) Prominent, strong
• Stupid
• Friendly or intimate
• Deep, intense, or profound
• troublesome; unreasonable
• Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips
• In a thick manner
• Frequently or numerously
• The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something
• A thicket
• A stupid person; a fool
• To thicken

Examples

• I want some planks that are two inches thick
• He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side
• We walked through thick undergrowth
• My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about
• The room was thick with reporters
• We drove through thick fog
• He answered me in his characteristically thick Creole patois
• We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent
• He was as thick as two short planks
• They were as thick as thieves
• Thick darkness
• Snow lay thick on the ground.
• The arrows flew thick and fast around us.
• It was mayhem in the thick of battle.

Related words

• thickness
• thicket
• thickening
• thickly
• thicken
• thick-skinned
• thickener
• thickened
• thickheaded