thickening : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: thickening	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for thickening
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thickening adj accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the thickening dusk" Synonym(s): deepening(a), thickening(a) becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot" n any material used to thicken; "starch is used in cooking as a thickening" Synonym(s): thickening, thickener any thickened enlargement Synonym(s): node, knob, thickening the act of thickening Synonym(s): thickening, inspissation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thicken \Thick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thickened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thickening}.] To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: (a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. (b) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. (c) To strengthen; to confirm. [Obs.] And this may to thicken other proofs. --Shak. (d) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thickening \Thick"en*ing\, n. Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.