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thickness
English
Etymology
From Middle English thikkenesse, thiknesse, from Old English þicnes (“thickness, viscosity, density, hardness; obscurity, cloud, darkness; thicket; depth, a thick body, anything thick or heavy”), equivalent to thick +? -ness. Eclipsed non-native Middle English crassitude (“thickness”) from Latin crassit?d? (“thickness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???kn?s/
- Hyphenation: thick?ness
Noun
thickness (countable and uncountable, plural thicknesses)
- (uncountable) The property of being thick (in dimension).
- (uncountable) A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
- The thickness of the Earth's crust varies from two to 70 kilometres.
- (countable) A layer.
- We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.
- (uncountable) The quality of being thick (in consistency).
- Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.
- (uncountable, informal) The property of being thick (slow to understand).
Synonyms
- (the property of being thick in dimension): fatness
- (measure): depth
- (layer): layer, stratum
- (in consistency): density, viscosity
- (property of being stupid): denseness, slowness, stupidity, thickheadedness
Antonyms
- (in consistency): fluidity, liquidity, runniness, thinness, wateriness
- (property of being stupid): mental acuity, mental agility, quick-wittedness, sharpness
Translations
Further reading
- Thickness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Nitschkes, shitnecks, tschinkes
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storey
English
Alternative forms
- story (US)
Etymology
From Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”) from Ancient Greek ??????? (historí?, “learning through research”), from ??????? (historé?, “to research, inquire (and record)”), from ????? (híst?r, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches.
An alternative etymology derives Middle English story from Old French *estoree (“a thing built, building”), from estoree (“built”), feminine past participle of estorer (“to build”), from Latin instaurare (“to construct, build, erect”), but this seems unlikely since historia already had the meaning "storey of a building" in Anglo-Latin.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?st????/, /?st???i/
- Rhymes: -??ri
- Homophone: story
Noun
storey (plural storeys)
- (obsolete) A building; an edifice.
- (Britain) A floor or level of a building or ship.
- Synonyms: floor, level, (US) story
- Coordinate term: deck
- (typography) A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
Usage notes
The terms floor, level, or deck are used in a similar way, except that it is usual to talk of a “14-storey building”, but “the 14th floor”. The floor at ground or street level is called the ground floor in many places. The words storey and floor exclude levels of the building that are not covered by a roof, such as the terrace on the top roof of many buildings.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- storey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Storey in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Oyster, Troyes, oyster, oystre, toyers, tyroes
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