单词	thickening
释义	thickening /ˈθɪk(ə)nɪŋ / noun [mass noun] 1The process or result of becoming broader, deeper, or denser: where two continents collide, some crustal thickening occurs [count noun]: one of the effects is a thickening of the skin... 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. 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. 1.1 [count noun] A broader, deeper, or denser area of animal or plant tissue: trees with tiny thickenings on the winter twigs... 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. None of the species studied has thickenings in all vessels. 2 another term for thickener.We did not use thickening in it but boiled it down till it was thick enough and we sautéed the onions first.... It is also often more appropriate to use foods with a thicker consistency than to use thickening in the foods. adjective Becoming broader, deeper, or denser: a hazardous journey through thickening fog... 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. 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. 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.
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