thicket
nounEtymology
From Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht (“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however. Compare typologically Bulgarian гъстак (gǎstak), Macedonian густеж (gustež), Czech houští, Polish gęstwina (< Proto-Slavic *gǫstъ); Latin dūmus (akin to dense).
Definitions
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
- Suddenly from a lumpy tussock of old grass some twenty yards in front of them, with black-tipped ears erect and long hinder limbs throwing it forward, started a hare. It bolted for a thicket of alders.
A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
- He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.
The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format…
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.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at thicket. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at thicket. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at thicket
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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