Think vs. Thick — What's the Difference?

To have or formulate in the mind

With opposite sides or surfaces that are far or relatively far apart

To reason about or reflect on; ponder

Made up of a large number of things or people close together

To decide by reasoning, reflection, or pondering

(of a liquid or a semi-liquid substance) relatively firm in consistency; not flowing freely

To judge or regard; look upon

Of low intelligence; stupid

To believe; suppose

(of a voice) not clear or distinct; hoarse or husky

To expect; hope

Having a very close, friendly relationship

To intend

The most active or crowded part of something

To call to mind; remember

In or with deep, dense, or heavy mass

To visualize; imagine

Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite, usually in the smallest solid dimension; not thin

To devise or evolve; invent

Measuring a specified number of units in this dimension

To bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation

Heavy in form, build, or stature; thickset

To concentrate one's thoughts on; keep as a point of focus

Having component parts in a close, crowded state or arrangement; dense

To exercise the power of reason, as by conceiving ideas, drawing inferences, and using judgment

Having or suggesting a heavy or viscous consistency

To consider or weigh an idea

Having a great number; abounding

To bring a thought to mind by using the imagination

Impenetrable by the eyes

To recall a thought or an image to mind

Hard to hear or understand, as from being husky or slurred

To have a belief, supposition, or opinion

Very noticeable; pronounced

To have care or consideration

(Informal) Lacking mental agility; stupid.

To use the mind in a certain way

(Informal) Very friendly; intimate

Requiring much thought to create or assimilate

(Informal) Going beyond what is tolerable; excessive.

The act or an instance of deliberate or extended thinking; a meditation.

In a thick manner; deeply or heavily

(transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's head.

In a close, compact state or arrangement; densely

(intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.

So as to be thick; thickly

(intransitive) To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).

The thickest part.

(transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.

The most active or intense part

(transitive) To guess; to reckon.

Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).

Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.

To presume; to venture.

Heavy in build; thickset.

To seem, to appear.

Densely crowded or packed.

An act of thinking; consideration (of something).

Having a viscous consistency.

To seem or appear; - used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

Abounding in number.

To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.

Impenetrable to sight.

To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.

(Of an accent) Prominent, strong.

To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.

Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.

To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.

Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.

To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.

(informal) Stupid.

To presume; to venture.

(informal) Friendly or intimate.

To conceive; to imagine.

Deep, intense, or profound.

To plan or design; to plot; to compass.

(academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.

To believe; to consider; to esteem.

Troublesome; unreasonable

Act of thinking; a thought.

Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.

An instance of deliberate thinking;

In a thick manner.

Judge or regard; look upon; judge;

Frequently or numerously.

Expect, believe, or suppose;

The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.

Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments;

A thicket.

Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection;

(slang) A stupid person; a fool.

Imagine or visualize;

To thicken.

Focus one's attention on a certain state;

Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; - said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick.

Have in mind as a purpose;

Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.

Decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting;

Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness.

Ponder; reflect on, or reason about;

Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain.

Dispose the mind in a certain way;

Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring.

Have or formulate in the mind;

Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.

Be capable of conscious thought;

Deep; profound; as, thick sleep.

Bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation;

Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing.

Intimate; very friendly; familiar.

The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.

A thicket; as, gloomy thicks.

Frequently; fast; quick.

Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.

To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure.

To thicken.

The location of something surrounded by other things;

Not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions;

Closely crowded together;

Relatively dense in consistency;

Spoken as if with a thick tongue;

Wide from side to side;

Hard to pass through because of dense growth;

(of darkness) very intense;

Abundant;

Heavy and compact in form or stature;

(used informally) associated on close terms;

Used informally

Abundantly covered or filled;

With a thick consistency;

In quick succession;