adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thick/dense forest (= with trees that are growing close together )
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The country we passed through was once thick forest.
thick/dense smoke
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Thick smoke spread through the building.
thick/dense/heavy fog (= great in amount and difficult to see through )
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The two lorries collided in heavy fog.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Although it looks like lead, it is only one-third as dense .
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The fog was as dense as ever.
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Distant walls disappear in a fog of dust as dense to the eye as the black fogs of old London.
less
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The supervised approach enabled urban subdivision of dense and less dense housing.
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If an object is less dense than water, the water will hold it up.
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The Belemnite chalk is less dense than the Montagne de Reims and turns sandy towards the bottom of its twenty-metre depth.
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Their explosive power is slightly less than that of an iron of the same size because they are less dense than iron.
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The overall effect is of information produced in a much less dense manner than is characteristic of written language.
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The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
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Further gravitational segregation of the iron core means that denser material moves inwards displacing less dense material outwards.
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High pressures are essential because graphite is less dense than diamond.
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It is also more dense than a normal lining and is thus able to cut out more light.
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If it is more dense than water, the water will not hold it up.
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Like all liquids, water that is less dense tends to float upon water that is more dense.
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In the third and final phase the area of dispersal is larger and the distribution more dense .
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Water that is salty is more dense than water that is fresh.
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They told me that sometimes the smoke is so dense , they pass out.
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At the main stage the crowd of women was so dense it was suffocating.
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Above it, is a cloud so dense it appears to be like a girder, half of it molten.
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The sprouts then grow into thickets of small, weak trees-thickets so dense that they crowd out all other species.
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I mean, they're so dense - the language, the symbols.
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Were there not so much, so dense and so hot, the Sun would not light at all.
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The smoke this produced was so dense that it closed airports and smothered half the country.
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Rob is still driving and is soon steering by the tree tops since the mist is so dense .
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The tin lead soft solder used on the ewer is very dense to X-rays and appears as white patches on the radiograph.
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A number of them carried short-barreled shot-guns, which were good weapons in very dense terrain.
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Its roots are short but very dense , forming a rich white tuft.
■ NOUN
cloud
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It flings its fine hairs in the face of the assailant, in a dense cloud .
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The Magellan radar-mapping mission was designed to penetrate the dense cloud layer and return detailed radar images of the surface geology.
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Standard polyurethane foam ignites rapidly, forming dense clouds of smoke and toxic vapour as it does so.
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The acacia grove, like a dense cloud , became a dark backdrop for her.
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This shop is surely an outpost of hell, with its oppressive heat and dense clouds of smoke.
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It appears that the Leonids contain a dense cloud of dust released during recent stressful passages of comet Tempel-Tuttle by the Sun.
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Weather satellite images of the area taken from synchronous orbit show an immense circular area of dense clouds above the impact site.
fog
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Almost the entire journey was through the plain, now covered in dense fog .
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I was at a point of crisis, lost, paralysed in the midst of a dense fog .
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As the storm cleared, dense fog came down.
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It will be remembered by old Spitfire pilots for its boggy runway and dense fog .
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He had seen him only in the dense fog .
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There was dust everywhere - the shop was filled with a dense fog of it.
foliage
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Spider riders can move easily through woods and forests, scuttling over the treetops and through the dense foliage .
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Whether clipped into shape or left natural, barberry is a formidable barrier thanks to its dense foliage and profusion of thorns.
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Though the trees and the undergrowth had been cut back, branches and dense foliage stooped overhead.
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In the dense foliage around us I heard the mortars crashing heavily, shaking the air, searching for us.
forest
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Day 9 Ottawa-Orilla Head north into stunning wilderness country, a region of sparkling lakes, rushing streams and dense forests .
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Inmates were paid 50 cents a day for the back-breaking chore of clearing right of way through dense forests and laying track.
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Not like the Harz with its dense forests .
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She gazed at the dense forest , then up at the sky.
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They are equally at home in dense forest , sparse woodland, savanna, or even on rocky hillsides.
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As the pace of deforestation picked up, the area of land covered by dense forest declined considerably.
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Some 360 million years ago the beginnings of dense forests showed up in the fossil record, with tall, looming foliage.
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I remember going through a dense forest .
growth
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A forest is a dense growth of trees and shrubby undergrowth covering a large tract of land.
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I was not the only one enjoying the apples, nor the new dense growth of trees.
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Its dense growth provides nesting places for a range of bird life as well as warm cover in winter or roosting small birds.
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It forms dense growths that are short in bright situations but taller in half-shade.
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South-facing slopes where snow lies late support meadows of grass and herbs; drier ridges carry a dense growth of dwarf shrubs.
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Summer often brings a green coloration caused by dense growths of unicellular green algae stimulated by excess light.
jungle
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Army helicopters could not land because of the mountainous terrain and dense jungle .
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The lake grows fish as prolifically as its bed once grew the trees of a dense jungle .
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The tiger gained its stripes by evolving in dense jungle and wet, reedy areas.
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The lakes are certainly there but they are hidden in dense jungle , only accessible by a network of sandy tracks.
material
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Mercury thus contains a much greater abundance of denser materials , the strong implication being that it is rich in metallic iron.
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They, too, were low-density matter trying to buoy up through a denser material .
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Further gravitational segregation of the iron core means that denser material moves inwards displacing less dense material outwards.
network
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He detected an inscription of Kleomenes on the figure's clothing, obscured by a dense network of incisions.
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Nor does it work well outside cities; its short range demands a dense network of base stations.
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It's now a sociological and historical fact that gay men and lesbians have constructed this dense network of relationships and communities.
population
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But they described a dense population , a vibrant economy and open grassland.
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Britain has a particular problem because of dense population and a policy of promoting road use at the expense of public transport.
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This system enabled them to maintain an exceptionally dense population , on the best principles of fertility conservation.
smoke
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Voice over Firefighters wearing special protective clothing made their way through the dense smoke towards the fuel flask.
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The candles were useless in the dense smoke , and it was many minutes before we could see.
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Great electrical bursts of dazzling blue and purple light explode behind copious amounts of dense smoke which obscures the entire stage.
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Environmentalists have also criticised the dense smoke from buses which pollute the town centre.
thicket
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Even after they have dropped, they are valuable, lying in a blood-red pool under the dense thicket of branches.
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The Fallen Road development used to be a thick pine woods with small scrub oak and dense thickets of cabbage palm.
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A lion roars in the dense thicket into which the watercourse runs.
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Over the millennia it has come to be surrounded by a dense thicket of folklore.
undergrowth
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We watched the men bundle up their parachutes and move off through the dense undergrowth , chopping at it with jungle machetes.
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It prefers woodlands with an open canopy coupled with dense undergrowth and some clearings.
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The path wound in and out of deep ravines, through thick oak and pine forests and dense undergrowth .
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Nightingales appreciate an open tree canopy with plenty of dense undergrowth and thicket below to provide nesting sites and shelter.
vegetation
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The southernmost has the densest vegetation , the most complete cover, and the widest variety of both angiosperms and plant communities.
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Firefighters could not get near the blaze because of the dense vegetation .
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A sound wave has a much greater chance of being scattered and absorbed by such dense vegetation .
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These attractive tetras make a good, peaceful community fish if the aquarium has dense vegetation with open water for swimming.
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This is particularly true in areas of dense vegetation such as tropical rainforest.
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Half an hour later and we were ready for a ride through the dense vegetation and forests of palms.
wood
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Signor Ugolotti led the way up through the dense woods .
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Fierce Eyes watched her coldly, then nodded, then stared beyond her, at the denser wood .
woodland
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During the night a storm descended upon them and they became lost in the dense woodland .
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All types of country except dense woodland , but especially near water; often in towns and villages.
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The muntjac and roe deer are browsers, living either singly or in very small groups throughout the year in dense woodland .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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dense smoke
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a dense population
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Sometimes you just seem so dense !
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The jungle is so dense you cannot walk through it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As it develops a dense mat of roots, the depth of the mixture should be at least four inches.
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Coniferous forests, often dense , in taiga and on mountains, less often in other woods.
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I actually became interested in those dark, dense paragraphs of print.
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Indeed, Beautiful World is a dense collection of tightly constructed tracks characterized by their complexity and variety.
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Lais's hand shook as she downed the dense amber liquid.
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The acacia grove, like a dense cloud, became a dark backdrop for her.
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The candles were useless in the dense smoke, and it was many minutes before we could see.
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The overall effect is of information produced in a much less dense manner than is characteristic of written language.