thicket
IPA: θˈɪkɪt
noun
- A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
- (figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
- (computing, figuratively) 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.
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Examples of "thicket" in Sentences
- She was back in the thicket again.
- It is covered in tree fern thicket.
- All are associated with dense thickets.
- It's bluebird singing in a hawthorn thicket.
- The animals threw the rabbit into the thicket.
- It will be necessary to get through this thicket.
- There is a considerable thicket of related articles.
- The island is largely covered with underbrush and thicket.
- The county is largely covered by the dense forest of the Big Thicket.
- This habitat may be willow thickets, red maple thicket or an aspen thicket.
- Still, lifting some of the most egregious constraints--namely the thicket of protections for tenured teachers--in union contracts will likely do some good.
- I do recall a thicket of reporters, which is what I understand the Beitbarts of the world were claiming should have picked up the wrongful language if it occurred.
- The bushes near Carleton Beck exuded the deep sonorous zoom sound of queen red-tailed and buff-tailed bumblebees, and all around the lee side of the thicket were the hoverflies known technically as Eristalis intricarius.
- The light that led me out of the thicket is the familiar and now comforting gaze of Sergeant Sunshine, his sunglasses illuminated by a row of spotlights from the street announcing the opening of a new “space” for artists and musicians in what used to be a drinking bar for off-duty police officers.
- This historical thicket is rendered all but impenetrable by the facts that, as Browning lucidly and vividly demonstrates, German anti-Semitism was hardly a fixed concept but, rather, evolved and mutated with the ever shifting circumstances; that the Nazi regime and its chains of command and decision were highly decentralized — which meant that at any given moment the interpretations and conceptions of, say, Goebbels and Rosenberg concerning the timing and realization of the Final Solution could vary significantly from those of Himmler and Heydrich; and, most important, that the documentary evidence is both vast and frustratingly incomplete.
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