Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

dense

/ˈdɛns/ adjective, noun

Forms denser densest denses

  1. adjective Having relatively high density.
  2. adjective Compact; crowded together.
  3. adjective Thick; difficult to penetrate.
  4. adjective Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
  5. adjective Obscure or difficult to understand.
  6. adjective (mathematics, topology, of a subset S of a topological space T, not comparable) Such that its closure in T is T.
  7. adjective Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
  8. noun A thicket.

Synonyms

solid compact crowded packed close thick tight cloudy opaque adiaphanous nontransparent opacous opacular abstruse difficult hard incomprehensible obscure tough Chinese heavy impenetrable dim dull dumb obtuse slow

Antonyms

diffuse dispersed incompact loose noncompact scattered spaced out sparse spread out thin uncompact clear

Etymology

From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”) (whence also Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
  2. adjective Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.

Etymology [L. densus; akin to Gr. dense.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “dense”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “dense” (best matches first).

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