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dense
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)
- Having relatively high density.
- Synonym: solid
- Compact; crowded together.
- Synonyms: compact, crowded, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact
- Antonyms: diffuse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Synonyms: thick, solid
- Antonym: thin
- 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
- 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
- (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
- (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)
- A thicket.
Anagrams
- Denes, Edens, Sneed, denes, edens, needs, sende, sneed
Esperanto
Etymology
From densa +? -e.
Adverb
dense
- densely
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin densus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??s/
Adjective
dense (plural denses)
- 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
- 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?)
- 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
- Compound of the second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of dar, den and the pronoun se.
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rugged
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English rugged, roggyd, ruggyd, derived from Old Norse r?gg (“tuft, shagginess”), equivalent to rug (“rough, woollen material”) +? -ed. Compare Old Swedish ruggoter (“wrinkled”), Swedish rugga (“to roughen”), Swedish ruggig (“shaggy”), Icelandic rögg (“shagginess”), Old Norse raggaðr (“tufted”), dialectal Danish raggad (“shaggy”).
Pronunciation
- r?-g?d, IPA(key): /?????d/
Adjective
rugged (comparative ruggeder, superlative ruggedest)
- Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough.
- 1870, Mark Twain, Roughing It, Chapter LXV
- By and by, after a rugged climb, we halted on the summit of a hill which commanded a far-reaching view.
- 1870, Mark Twain, Roughing It, Chapter LXV
- Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
- 2011, Ronke Luke-Boone, African Fabrics: Sewing Contemporary Fashion with Ethic Flair
- Commercially produced yarn, such as rayon, produces a cloth with a smoother, shinier look than hand-spun cotton, but the uneven, rugged look of hand-spun cotton can be quite appealing.
- 2011, Ronke Luke-Boone, African Fabrics: Sewing Contemporary Fashion with Ethic Flair
- Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
- (of a person) Strong, sturdy, well-built.
- 2010, Arthur Queen Jr., Young Man: Ageless Fatherly Wisdom to Hold
- Many women and men delude themselves into thinking that only the hardest and most rugged man is attractive and to many it may be the case.
- 2010, Arthur Queen Jr., Young Man: Ageless Fatherly Wisdom to Hold
- (of land) Rocky and bare of plantlife.
- 2013, Vicky Baker in The Guardian, Riding with the cowboys on a Mexico ranch
- Hidden within 30,000 acres of rugged private land, the ranch is cocooned by peaks and canyons in all directions.
- 2013, Vicky Baker in The Guardian, Riding with the cowboys on a Mexico ranch
- (of temper, character, or people) Harsh; austere; hard; crabbed
- Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.
- (of sound, style etc.) Harsh; grating; rough to the ear
- (of looks, appearance etc.) Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled
- (of behaviour) Violent; rude; boisterous
- (of health, physique etc.) Vigorous; robust; hardy
- 1909, Jack London, Martin Eden
- "Her gaze rested for a moment on the muscular neck, heavy corded, almost bull-like, bronzed by the sun, spilling over with rugged health and strength..."
- 1909, Jack London, Martin Eden
- (computing, of a computer) Designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions.
- 2011, Nick Fletcher, Psion drops 2% after supply chain issues push it into loss
- Psion, which supplies a range of rugged hand held computers, has lost nearly 2% after announcing a plunge into the red.
- 2011, Nick Fletcher, Psion drops 2% after supply chain issues push it into loss
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- rugged in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- rugged at OneLook Dictionary Search
Etymology 2
rug +? -ed
Pronunciation
- r?gd, IPA(key): /???d/
Adjective
rugged (not comparable)
- Having a rug or rugs.
- Covered with a rug.
Verb
rugged
- simple past tense and past participle of rug
Anagrams
- Dugger, Gudger, grudge, gurged
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