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dense

If something is dense the pieces of it are close together, or there is a lot of material in a small space. Dense things are usually heavy and often hard. A rock is very dense but a sponge is not dense at all. Steel is denser than water, so it sinks. If ideas are dense or a book is dense, a lot of ideas are in a small space. If a person is dense it is not easy to make that person understand. A dense person is stupid.

dense

(= heavy, impenetrable) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter dense smoke heavy fog impenetrable gloom (= thick) hard to pass through because of dense growth dense vegetation thick woods having high relative density or specific gravity dense as lead (= dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity so dense he never understands anything I say to him never met anyone quite so dim although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick — Thackeray dumb officials make some really dumb decisions he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse worked with the slow students

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Simple sentences

Mr Smith lost his way in the dense fog.
There is a dense growth of vines in this forest.
The dense fog made the building invisible.
Our plane couldn't land on account of the dense fog.
The mist was so dense that I could not see even an inch ahead.
Because of the dense fog, nobody could be seen.
The fog was so dense, we could hardly see anything.
He has a very dense beard.
Black holes are very dense.
This forest is very dense.
American cities are not as dense as European cities.
Black holes are so dense that their gravitational pull can trap even light.
Because of the dense fog, nothing could be seen.
The jungle was dense and thick.
The road to Kazan lies through a dense forest.

Movie subtitles

If life evolved on a very dense planet where the atmosphere is soupy or water-like, you could see creatures as big as whales or elephants actually flying, not through the air, but through this liquid-like atmosphere.
And if the red giant does not have enough mass to fuse carbon, an inert mass of carbon and oxygen builds up in the center, transforming into a dense white dwarf.
When I received your letter, did you really think me so dense that I wouldn't sense the despair in your heart?
Well, I may be very dense, but if this is some sort of a joke, I'm afraid I don't see the point.
I thought it looked very attractive, all that dense black smoke belching from the funnel.
I ain't dense.
It takes more than luck to hit a running stag at 75 yards in dense forest.
Look, Count, look at that dense, dark cloud over there!
That's true enough, but any organism..dense enough to survive three billion electron volts..would have to be made of solid nuclear material.
Someday I'm going to horrify tradition and lay a dense cloud of tobacco smoke in that hallowed courtroom.
Its so smoky in there. And today the air is really dense.
Are you dense or something?
A dense fog.
You know, I've never seen vegetation as dense as this before.
Behind the thirty-nine countries, in dense forest, Mighty oaks grow three.
From Nombre de Dios to Ventacruz, this strip here. is jungle so thick and dense. that a small force could attack from ambush.
Here, at the southward slope of the Himalaya, climate and surrounding area is dense and without air.
One morning we found ourselves on the high mountain in dense and thick snow.
Don't be dense. The party.
Look, Count. a dense cloud of smoke over there.
That's true enough, but any organism dense enough to survive three billion electron volts would have to be made of solid nuclear material.
Yes, they have several, but you'll never see them because of the dense cloud cover.
How come you're so dense all of a sudden?
Nothing but dense woods! Two full days!
The woods are dense.
In many areas, dense fog severely hampers vítal operatíons.
They're dense, aren't they? - Yes.
Don't be dense.
The party. I ain't dense.
Dense, comprised primarily of oxygen.
Porthos is tall, strong, and a little dense.
Other parts were more dense. Ensign, did you sense any intelligence in this gaseous cloud?
Similar to diburnium, but considerably more dense.
If she didn't, she must have been very dense.
When they failed to return, we ordered a search. The fog was too dense, and we had to call the search off.
It's too dense in there.
A hand not only burned. but covered with dense, matted hair.
We lead him into this area of dense mist here.
The road from the station passed through Ignatievo, then swerved near the farm we had lived on each summer before the war, and through a dense oak forest went on as far as Tomshino.

News and current affairs

Even if Scotland declares independence, it will - and should continue to be - bound by a dense web of European and global rules and responsibilities.
During the earliest moments after the creation of the universe in the Big Bang 12 billion years ago, the universe was extremely small and dense and the laws of physics governed perhaps only one kind of particle and one force.
In a small-state setting, imposition of a dense network of controls is likely to lead to the loss of mobile factors of production, while in a large state it is harder for labor or capital to escape.
Historical records indicate, however, that these places were once covered by dense forests.
Such meetings are vital for Asia, because the continent lacks the dense institutional infrastructure that Europe has built up over the past five decades.
For, if Asia is to begin to build the type of dense institutional infrastructure that has brought Europe peace and prosperity, the flashpoint between China and Taiwan will need to be transformed into a foundation stone of regional cooperation.
A second generic feature of emerging-market cities is that dense concentrations of poverty help create fragile environments that spawn civil disorders, resulting in death and injuries.
MADRID - Our brains are like a dense forest - a complex, seemingly impenetrable terrain of interacting neurons that mediates cognition and behavior.
A very dense network of processes occupies the space between the cell bodies of the neurons, neuroglia (cells that support and protect neurons), and blood vessels.

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