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Definition of thickening in English: thickeningnoun ˈθɪk(ə)nɪŋˈθɪkənɪŋ mass noun1The process or result of becoming broader, deeper, or denser. 增厚(或粗、密、浓等) where two continents collide, some crustal thickening occurs count noun one of the effects is a thickening of the skin Example sentencesExamples - Bronchiolar wall thickening may occur due to inflammation or fibrosis.
- The condition isn't a true tumor, but instead involves a thickening of the tissue around one of the digital nerves leading to your toes.
- The potentially fatal heart condition - signified by abnormalities and excessive thickening of the heart muscle - has left her suffering from angina, so she gets tired easily and has to pace herself.
- Secondary features include burning or stinging, plaque, dry appearance, edema, ocular manifestations, peripheral location, and thickening of the skin.
- Secondary bacterial infection can cause hardening and thickening of the skin, known as elephantiasis.
- Other symptoms include thickening of the skin, fat in the abdomen, fat under the eyeballs and neck, and apparent laziness.
- The disease also clogs the body's lymph drainage system and that results in swelling, thickening and wrinkling of the skin.
- In 1935 Cornbleet was the first to describe a thickening of the subcutaneous fat layer of the scalp.
- Marked skin thickening was evident.
- The diuretic effect, over time, causes dehydration and thickening of the blood, digestive disorders and metabolic imbalance.
- One result of this is the well-known thickening of pulmonary secretions, generally developing later in life.
- We're told that we've been getting fatter for thirty years, and that this thickening of our waistlines portends a coming healthcare catastrophe.
- For instance, it's long been dogma that the use of anabolic steroids interferes with proper hepatic function and causes thickening of the heart muscle.
- Crustal thickening under the Himalayas reached a maximum during the Pliocene, although the mountains continued to grow (as they are still growing today).
- It is believed that babies who develop the condition are not born with pyloric stenosis, but that the progressive thickening of the pylorus occurs after birth.
- In both of these studies, prednisone administration did not reduce the development of residual pleural thickening.
- The extent of thickening did not correlate with the amount of inflammation, suggesting a pre-existing condition.
- The Nazca Plate, which underlies the eastern Pacific Ocean, slides under western South America, resulting in crustal thickening, uplift and volcanism.
- These rocks may represent the product of partial melting caused by crustal thickening during an orogenic event.
- Alternatively, the patient might develop thickening of the skin, which would suggest the diagnosis of scleroderma.
- Slight redness and thickening at the injection site occurs in about 30% of patients.
- This rare disorder results in a thickening of the heart muscle, which impairs its ability to pump blood.
- 1.1count noun A broader, deeper, or denser area of animal or plant tissue.
加厚组织 trees with tiny thickenings on the winter twigs Example sentencesExamples - None of the species studied has thickenings in all vessels.
- The ultrasound examination looks for a thickening of skin behind the fetal neck, called the nuchal fold, which sometimes occurs in Down syndrome and, possibly, other birth defects.
- Fine spiral thickenings are frequent.
Synonyms expansion, growth, increase in size, extension, amplification, augmentation, topping up, building up, addition, supplementing
2 another term for thickener Example sentencesExamples - It is also often more appropriate to use foods with a thicker consistency than to use thickening in the foods.
- We did not use thickening in it but boiled it down till it was thick enough and we sautéed the onions first.
adjective ˈθɪk(ə)nɪŋˈθɪkənɪŋ Becoming broader, deeper, or denser. 增厚(或粗、密、浓等) a hazardous journey through thickening fog 穿行在渐厚浓雾中的危险行程。 Example sentencesExamples - With that the girl turned into the thickening crowd and headed down one of the narrow alleys.
- Mr Chirac promised in the late 1980s, when he was prime minister, that leading politicians would submit personal financial records to parliament amid a thickening air of suspicion over political sleaze.
- The once bright sun dulled behind a sheet of faint mist, and many of the busy servants had a hood drawn up against the ever thickening fog.
- The guar, or cluster bean, provides a gum that has 8 times the thickening power of cornstarch.
- Within brief minutes, the thickening clouds were zooming by our wing tips increasing our awareness of the plane's speed of approximately 150-mph.
- The higher you go, the colder it is, and the more likely that weak layers persist underneath a thickening slab of snow.
- Alas, the thickening undergrowth has also proven the undoing of one of the less bright avian ground feeders.
- If it had not been for the thickening fog, one might have thought that it was going to rain with no clouds in the sky.
- Tapioca flour is used as a thickening agent in foods.
- I pushed my way through the thickening crowds of students and went straight to the student's parking lot and waited near the doors.
- It is also a very useful and beneficial thickening agent in all types of cooking.
- He took 300 kilograms of guar gum, a thickening agent found in salad dressing, and dumped it into a 25-meter swimming pool on campus.
- The snares were undisturbed, but poking about in the thickening undergrowth yielded another discovery - the pale, speckled shape of a fungus coaxed into emergence by the recent rains.
- Morley trudged down the beach through the thickening mist and studied the tracks for a long time, before he heard the sound of wood buckling.
- For less severe hair-loss, styling products such as thickening shampoos and gels may create the illusion of thicker hair.
- Although the rough weather and thickening fog beyond the harbour prevented us passing between the high cliffs, we made up for it with a nightcap in the yacht club.
- York Civil Defence members had a real test of their efficiency when, in an ever thickening mist, they carried out what an officer described as a routine exercise.
- In medieval times it was a common practice to use a hollowed-out loaf as the container for a sweet or savory dish or as the primary thickening agent next to almonds.
- Other non-medical uses are as a thickening agent for toothpastes and jams.
- Most spots on the Earth received an average of 15% less sunlight than they did 50 years ago thanks to, many scientists suspect, the thickening haze of air pollution.
Definition of thickening in US English: thickeningnounˈTHikəniNGˈθɪkənɪŋ 1The process or result of becoming broader, deeper, or denser. 增厚(或粗、密、浓等) Example sentencesExamples - The diuretic effect, over time, causes dehydration and thickening of the blood, digestive disorders and metabolic imbalance.
- For instance, it's long been dogma that the use of anabolic steroids interferes with proper hepatic function and causes thickening of the heart muscle.
- These rocks may represent the product of partial melting caused by crustal thickening during an orogenic event.
- It is believed that babies who develop the condition are not born with pyloric stenosis, but that the progressive thickening of the pylorus occurs after birth.
- One result of this is the well-known thickening of pulmonary secretions, generally developing later in life.
- The condition isn't a true tumor, but instead involves a thickening of the tissue around one of the digital nerves leading to your toes.
- The extent of thickening did not correlate with the amount of inflammation, suggesting a pre-existing condition.
- In 1935 Cornbleet was the first to describe a thickening of the subcutaneous fat layer of the scalp.
- Secondary bacterial infection can cause hardening and thickening of the skin, known as elephantiasis.
- The Nazca Plate, which underlies the eastern Pacific Ocean, slides under western South America, resulting in crustal thickening, uplift and volcanism.
- Other symptoms include thickening of the skin, fat in the abdomen, fat under the eyeballs and neck, and apparent laziness.
- Secondary features include burning or stinging, plaque, dry appearance, edema, ocular manifestations, peripheral location, and thickening of the skin.
- The potentially fatal heart condition - signified by abnormalities and excessive thickening of the heart muscle - has left her suffering from angina, so she gets tired easily and has to pace herself.
- We're told that we've been getting fatter for thirty years, and that this thickening of our waistlines portends a coming healthcare catastrophe.
- Alternatively, the patient might develop thickening of the skin, which would suggest the diagnosis of scleroderma.
- This rare disorder results in a thickening of the heart muscle, which impairs its ability to pump blood.
- In both of these studies, prednisone administration did not reduce the development of residual pleural thickening.
- Marked skin thickening was evident.
- Slight redness and thickening at the injection site occurs in about 30% of patients.
- Crustal thickening under the Himalayas reached a maximum during the Pliocene, although the mountains continued to grow (as they are still growing today).
- Bronchiolar wall thickening may occur due to inflammation or fibrosis.
- The disease also clogs the body's lymph drainage system and that results in swelling, thickening and wrinkling of the skin.
- 1.1 A broader, deeper, or denser area of animal or plant tissue.
加厚组织 Example sentencesExamples - The ultrasound examination looks for a thickening of skin behind the fetal neck, called the nuchal fold, which sometimes occurs in Down syndrome and, possibly, other birth defects.
- None of the species studied has thickenings in all vessels.
- Fine spiral thickenings are frequent.
Synonyms expansion, growth, increase in size, extension, amplification, augmentation, topping up, building up, addition, supplementing
2 another term for thickener Example sentencesExamples - It is also often more appropriate to use foods with a thicker consistency than to use thickening in the foods.
- We did not use thickening in it but boiled it down till it was thick enough and we sautéed the onions first.
adjectiveˈTHikəniNGˈθɪkənɪŋ Becoming broader, deeper, or denser. 增厚(或粗、密、浓等) a hazardous journey through thickening fog 穿行在渐厚浓雾中的危险行程。 Example sentencesExamples - Alas, the thickening undergrowth has also proven the undoing of one of the less bright avian ground feeders.
- The guar, or cluster bean, provides a gum that has 8 times the thickening power of cornstarch.
- Within brief minutes, the thickening clouds were zooming by our wing tips increasing our awareness of the plane's speed of approximately 150-mph.
- The higher you go, the colder it is, and the more likely that weak layers persist underneath a thickening slab of snow.
- For less severe hair-loss, styling products such as thickening shampoos and gels may create the illusion of thicker hair.
- He took 300 kilograms of guar gum, a thickening agent found in salad dressing, and dumped it into a 25-meter swimming pool on campus.
- The once bright sun dulled behind a sheet of faint mist, and many of the busy servants had a hood drawn up against the ever thickening fog.
- I pushed my way through the thickening crowds of students and went straight to the student's parking lot and waited near the doors.
- Although the rough weather and thickening fog beyond the harbour prevented us passing between the high cliffs, we made up for it with a nightcap in the yacht club.
- Morley trudged down the beach through the thickening mist and studied the tracks for a long time, before he heard the sound of wood buckling.
- Tapioca flour is used as a thickening agent in foods.
- Most spots on the Earth received an average of 15% less sunlight than they did 50 years ago thanks to, many scientists suspect, the thickening haze of air pollution.
- Mr Chirac promised in the late 1980s, when he was prime minister, that leading politicians would submit personal financial records to parliament amid a thickening air of suspicion over political sleaze.
- The snares were undisturbed, but poking about in the thickening undergrowth yielded another discovery - the pale, speckled shape of a fungus coaxed into emergence by the recent rains.
- With that the girl turned into the thickening crowd and headed down one of the narrow alleys.
- York Civil Defence members had a real test of their efficiency when, in an ever thickening mist, they carried out what an officer described as a routine exercise.
- It is also a very useful and beneficial thickening agent in all types of cooking.
- If it had not been for the thickening fog, one might have thought that it was going to rain with no clouds in the sky.
- Other non-medical uses are as a thickening agent for toothpastes and jams.
- In medieval times it was a common practice to use a hollowed-out loaf as the container for a sweet or savory dish or as the primary thickening agent next to almonds.
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