What is the difference between thick and heavy and dense ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.

@westwood2000

Thick is generally used to refer to a book, a line on a paper, a piece of meat. Something you could measure with a tape measure and see how many inches, feet, etc. it is.

Heavy is how much something/someone weighs. That man eats too much - he’s very heavy (fat). Let me move that furniture for you. It’s very heavy.

Dense is used to talk about things that have parts so close together there’s not very much space between them. The forest is very dense (many many trees that you can hardly see or walk between the trees).

Sometimes they all mean the same thing, as with fog. Fog can be thick, heavy or dense. Rain, on the other hand, can only be heavy. Snow can be thick or heavy when it is snowing. When it’s on the ground, it can also be dense. There’s really no reason for these - just have to memorize when to use them.

There are other meanings too:
Dense can mean a person who’s not very smart. We use the expression ‘thick-headed’ to talk about someone who’s very stubborn.
Thick can mean a person who’s not fat but not skinny - mid-part of the body is big.

Hope this isn’t too confusing!