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Thick vs. Fat
Thick
/θɪk/Examples:
The crowd grew thicker.The guide drove the elephant into the thickest trees.He must be in the thick of it.
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Fat
/fat/Examples:
She was fatter now.Pieces of bones and fat floated in the pools."Yesterday you said, "Amy March is fat!'
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Thick often describes something with depth or width, like a book. Fat usually describes something with excessive weight or bulk, like a person.
- A milkshake can be thick if its rich and dense, but someone who eats too many milkshakes might become fat'.
- In the context of lines, thick lines are bold and stand out, whereas fat is rarely used to describe lines unless in a very colloquial sense.
- Use thick for describing textures or substances that are dense, whereas fat is used to describe physical body mass or the nutrient component in foods.
- Thick can imply durability or strength, like a thick forest, while fat typically implies excess, as in having extra pounds.
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