different between dense vs macchia

English

Etymology

From Middle French dense, from Latin densus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /d?ns/
• Rhymes: -?ns

Adjective

dense (comparative denser, superlative densest)

1. Having relatively high density.

   Synonym: solid

2. Compact; crowded together.

   Synonyms: compact, crowded, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact

   Antonyms: diffuse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse

3. Thick; difficult to penetrate.

   Synonyms: thick, solid

   Antonym: thin
4. Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

   Synonyms: cloudy, opaque; see also Thesaurus:opaque

   Antonyms: clear, diaphanous, see-through, translucent, transparent; see also Thesaurus:transparent, Thesaurus:translucent

5. Obscure, or difficult to understand.

   Synonyms: abstruse, difficult, hard, incomprehensible, obscure, tough; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible

   Antonyms: clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable; see also Thesaurus:comprehensible

6. (mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on dense sets for mathematical definition.

   Antonym: meager

7. (of a person) Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.

   Synonyms: dumb, slow, stupid, thick; see also Thesaurus:stupid

   Antonyms: bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart; see also Thesaurus:intelligent

Antonyms

• (crowded together): diffuse, few and far between (of things as opposed to one thing), scattered, sparse, rarefied (scientific, to describe gases)

Translations

Noun

dense (plural denses)

1. A thicket.

Anagrams

• Denes, Edens, Sneed, denes, edens, needs, sende, sneed

Esperanto

Etymology

From densa +? -e.

Adverb

dense

1. densely

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin densus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??s/

Adjective

dense (plural denses)

1. dense

Related terms

• condenser
• densité

Further reading

• “dense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

dense

1. feminine plural of denso

Latin

Etymology

From d?nsus (“dense, close, frequent”) +? -? (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?den.se?/, [?d???s?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?den.se/, [?d??ns?]

Adverb

d?ns? (comparative d?nsius, superlative d?nsissim?)

1. closely, in rapid succession

Related terms

References

• dense in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dense in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Verb

dense

1. Compound of the second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of dar, den and the pronoun se.

English

Etymology

From Corsican machja, related to Italian macchia and French maquis; ultimately from Latin macula. Doublet of macule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæk.?a/

Noun

macchia (uncountable)

1. A shrubland biota in Mediterranean countries, typically consisting of densely-growing evergreen shrubs.

Related terms

• maquis

Translations

Further reading

• maquis shrubland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mak.kja/
• Rhymes: -akkja
• Hyphenation: màc?chia

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *macla, from Latin macula. Doublet of macula, a borrowing.

Noun

macchia f (plural macchie)

1. stain, smear
2. spot, fleck
3. (figuratively) blot, speck, disgrace
4. (figuratively, uncommon) defect, flaw

   Synonyms: difetto, neo

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• macchia¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

A semantic extension of the above.

Noun

macchia f (plural macchie)

1. shrub, bush, brake
2. macchia (shrubland biota)
3. (transferred sense) Generic name for plants commonly found in a macchia

Derived terms

References

• macchia² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

macchia

1. inflection of macchiare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• macachi