Thicken vs. Thicket — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Thicken and Thicket
Definitions
Thicken➦
To make or become thick or thicker
Thicken the sauce with cornstarch. The crowd thickened near the doorway.
Thicket➦
A thicket is a very dense stand of trees or tall shrubs, often dominated by only one or a few species, to the exclusion of all others. They may be formed by species that shed large numbers of highly viable seeds that are able to germinate in the shelter of the maternal plants.
Thicken➦
To make or become more intense, intricate, or complex
The leader's departure thickens the problems. Our apprehension thickened.
Thicket➦
A dense growth of shrubs or underbrush; a copse.
Thicken➦
(transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of wider).
Thicket➦
Something suggestive of a dense growth of plants, as in impenetrability or thickness
"the thicket of unreality which stands between us and the facts of life" (Daniel J. Boorstin).
Thicken➦
(transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
To thicken a sauce
Thicket➦
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
Thicken➦
(intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of wider).
Thicket➦
(figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.
Thicken➦
(intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
Thicket➦
The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.
Thicken➦
(transitive) To strengthen; to confirm.
Thicket➦
A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.
Thicken➦
(transitive) To make more frequent.
To thicken blows
Thicket➦
A dense growth of bushes
Thicken➦
To make thick (in any sense of the word).
Thicken➦
To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
Thicken➦
To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.
Thicken➦
To strengthen; to confirm.
And this may to thicken other proofs.
Thicken➦
To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
Thicken➦
To become thick.
The press of people thickens to the court.
The combat thickens, like the storm that flies.
Thicken➦
Make thick or thicker;
Thicken the sauce
Inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch
Thicken➦
Become thick or thicker;
The sauce thickened
The egg yolk will inspissate
Thicken➦
Make viscous or dense;
Thicken the sauce by adding flour
