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A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.
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{
"term": "dense",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "containing a lot of people, things, plants, etc. with little space between them",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **dense crowd/forest**"
},
{
"text": "areas of dense population"
},
{
"text": "The forest is quite dense at that point."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "difficult to see through",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "**dense fog/smoke/fumes**"
},
{
"text": "The fog was getting very dense."
}
],
"synonyms": "thick"
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "stupid",
"labels": "(informal)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "How can you be so dense?"
},
{
"text": "John's all right, but he can be a bit dense sometimes."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "difficult to understand because it contains a lot of information",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a dense piece of writing"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "heavy in relation to its size",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Less dense substances move upwards to form a crust."
},
{
"text": "All that is left of the star is a small, dense core."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dens/",
"audio": "de/dense/dense__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dens/",
"audio": "de/dense/dense__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin densus."
}