dense /dens/ ●●○ adjectiveadj 1 NEARmade of or containing a lot of things or people that are very close together 茂密的,密集的,稠密的 SYN thickdense undergrowth/forest/woodland/jungle etc A narrow track wound steeply up through dense forest. 一条狭窄陡峭的小道穿过茂密的森林蜿蜒而上。
the city's dense population 居住在乡村的密集人口
2 DNdifficult to see through or breathe in 浓密的,不易看透[呼吸]的 3 informal not able to understand things easily 迟钝的,愚蠢的 SYN stupid Am I being dense? I don’t quite understand. 是我太笨了吗?我不太明白。
4. ALa dense piece of writing is difficult to understand because it contains a lot of information or uses complicated language 〔文章等因信息量大或语言复杂而〕难懂的 5 HP technical a substance that is dense has a lot of mass in relation to its size 密度大的 Water is eight hundred times denser than air. 水的密度是空气的将近800倍。
—densely adverbadv a densely populated area 人口稠密的地区
—denseness noun [uncountableU]
n COLLOCATIONSnounsdense forest/wood/woodland/jungleTheir helicopter could not land because of the dense jungle.
dense undergrowth (=plants, bushes etc growing around and under trees)The bird is found mainly in woodland where there is dense undergrowth.
dense vegetation (=plants in general)The land around here is covered with dense vegetation.
dense foliage (=leaves of a plant or tree)a thick bushy plant with dense foliage
a dense covering of somethingsteep-sided mountains with a dense covering of trees
a dense massa dense mass of equatorial rainforest
a dense network of somethingThe country is served by a dense network of roads.
a dense population (=a lot of people living close together)Britain has a particular problem because of dense population.