English-Dutch translations for thick

• dik
  Dik schuim drijft aan de oppervlakte van de rivier. Thick foam floats on the surface of the river.
  Sommige dossiers die we toegankelijk moeten maken, zijn wel zó dik. Some of the files we have to make accessible are this thick.
  Ik heb al vaak de stemming voorgezeten, maar zo'n dik dossier voor een enkel verslag heb ik nog nooit gezien. I am used to chairing the vote, but I have never seen such a thick dossier for a single report.
• dikke
  Er stond een ijzige poolwind en in de haven lagen talrijke eenmansboten in een dikke laag ijs. The icy polar wind was blowing and many small one-man boats were lying in the harbour in thick ice.
  Vuile bommen zullen de verscheidene centimeters dikke wapenplaten van de meeste moderne tanks in kleine stukjes uiteen laten spatten. Dirty bombs will shatter into pieces the several centimetre thick armour plates of the most modern tanks.
  Ik nader het einde van een buitensporig lange politieke carrière en ik heb een tamelijk dikke huid. I am now drawing to the end of a rather excessively long political career and I have got a pretty thick skin.
• dicht
• dichte
• dichtopeengepakt
• dichtopeengepakte
• gebonden
• gezet
• gezette
• lijvig
• slome
• sloom
• traag van begrip
• vuur van de strijd
• zwaar
• zware

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