Thickening - English meaning

Thickening – definitions in English dictionary

noun
The process or result of becoming broader, deeper, or denser.
Usage examples:
Where two continents collide, some crustal thickening occurs

adjective
Another term for thickener.
adjective
Becoming broader, deeper, or denser.
Usage examples:
A hazardous journey through thickening fog

verb
Make or become thick or thicker.
Usage examples:
Thicken the sauce with flour
Synonims:
Become thick/thickerStiffenBecome firmerCondenseBecome more concentratedSolidifySetGelCongealClotCoagulateCakeInspissateGelatinize

noun
The process of becoming thicker or of making something become thicker
Usage examples:
This thickening of the airways causes them to narrow and makes it difficult to move air into and ou…

Thickening translation into English

Thickening: translate from English into Chinese

增稠

Thickening: translate from English into Dutch

Verdikking

Thickening: translate from English into French

Épaississant, Épaissement

Thickening: translate from English into German

Verdickung, Verdichtung, Bindemittel, Stockung

Thickening: translate from English into Hindi

और अधिक मोटा होना, उमड़ना, मोटा होना, घिरना, गाढ़ा होना, धुंधला होना, उलझना, घना होना, जमना, और ज़्यादा मोटा होना

Thickening: translate from English into Italian

Ispessimento

Thickening: translate from English into Korean

농화, 두껍게 함, 두껍게 됨, 굵게 함, 굵게 됨, 농밀화, 풀먹임, 농후제, 농후재료

Thickening: translate from English into Russian

Утолщение, Сгущение

Thickening: translate from English into Spanish

Espesamiento

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Thickening – similar words

thickeners

noun
A substance added to a liquid to make it firmer, especially in cooking.
Usage examples:
The most familiar use of starch is as a thickener for cooking sauces, as in cornflour, or perhaps a…

noun
A substance that is used to make a liquid thicker
Usage examples:
Cornflour can be used as a thickener in sauces.

Thickeners - all meanings in English

thickener

noun
A substance added to a liquid to make it firmer, especially in cooking.
Usage examples:
The most familiar use of starch is as a thickener for cooking sauces, as in cornflour, or perhaps a…

Thickener - all meanings in English

thickened

verb
Make or become thick or thicker.
Usage examples:
Thicken the sauce with flour

verb
Past simple and past participle of thicken
Usage examples:
Thicken the sauce with a little flour., the smoke thickened rapidly.

Thickened - all meanings in English

thicken

verb
Make or become thick or thicker.
Usage examples:
Thicken the sauce with flour

verb
To cause to become thicker
Usage examples:
Thicken the gravy with a little flour.

Thicken - all meanings in English

Thickening synonims

cake

keɪk

noun
An item of soft sweet food made from a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, baked and sometimes iced or decorated.
Usage examples:
A delicious cake smothered with whipped cream

verb
(of a thick or sticky substance that hardens when dry) cover and become encrusted on (the surface of an object).
Usage examples:
His clothes were caked in mud

noun
A sweet food made with a mixture of flour, eggs, fat, and sugar
Usage examples:
Would you like a piece of/a slice of/some cake?, chocolate/sponge cake, a birthday/christmas cake, …

Cake - all meanings in English

clot

klɒt

noun
A thick mass of coagulated liquid, especially blood, or of material stuck together.
Usage examples:
A blood clot

verb
Form or cause to form clots.
Usage examples:
Drugs that help blood to clot

noun
An almost solid piece of something
Usage examples:
Blood clot he had a blood clot removed from his brain.

Clot - all meanings in English

coagulate

kəʊˈæɡ.jə.leɪt

verb
(of a fluid, especially blood) change to a solid or semi-solid state.
Usage examples:
Blood had coagulated round the edges of the gash

verb
(of a liquid) to become or cause to become thicker so that it will not flow
Usage examples:
[ i ] when making cheese, enzymes are added to make the milk coagulate.

verb
To change from liquid to a more solid state, or to cause something to do this
Usage examples:
The sauce coagulated as it cooled down., the venom of this snake coagulates the blood.

Coagulate - all meanings in English

condense

kənˈdens

verb
Make (something) denser or more concentrated.
Usage examples:
The morning play on saturday was condensed into a half-hour package

verb
To reduce something, such as a speech or piece of writing, in length
Usage examples:
I condensed ten pages of comments into/to two.

verb
To make a liquid thicker by removing some of the water

Condense - all meanings in English

congeal

kənˈdʒiːl

verb
Become semi-solid, especially on cooling.
Usage examples:
The blood had congealed into blobs

verb
To change from a liquid or soft state to a thick or solid state
Usage examples:
The grease in the frying pan congealed as it cooled.

Congeal - all meanings in English

gel

dʒel

noun
A a thick, clear, slightly sticky substance, especially one used in cosmetic or medicinal products.
Usage examples:
Hair gel

verb
(of a liquid or semi-liquid substance) set or become more solid.
Usage examples:
The stew is gelling

noun
An upper-class or well-bred girl or young woman.
Usage examples:
Fastidiously reared home counties gels

Gel - all meanings in English

inspissate

verb
Thicken or congeal.
Usage examples:
Whatever tends to inspissate sap has the property of causing flower buds to be produced

Inspissate - all meanings in English

set

verb
Put, lay, or stand (something) in a specified place or position.
Usage examples:
Delaney set the mug of tea down

noun
A group or collection of things that belong together or resemble one another or are usually found together.
Usage examples:
A set of false teeth

verb
Variant spelling of sett.

Set - all meanings in English

solidify

verb
Make or become hard or solid.
Usage examples:
The magma slowly solidifies and forms crystals

verb
To make something firm, or to become firm
Usage examples:
[ t ] a chemical reaction solidifies the resin., [ i ] lava solidifies as it cools., [ t ] the play…

Solidify - all meanings in English

stiffen

verb
Make or become stiff or rigid.
Usage examples:
He stiffened his knees in an effort to prevent them trembling

verb
Make rigid or more rigid

verb
To become or make something firm or more difficult to bend
Usage examples:
[ t ] to paint on linen, you first have to stiffen the fabric with a glue mixture., [ i ] his back …

Stiffen - all meanings in English

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