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DENSELY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a concentrated manner

Example:

a thickly populated area

Synonyms:

densely; thickly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a stupid manner

Example:

he had so rapaciously desired and so obtusely expected to find her alone

Synonyms:

densely; dumbly; obtusely

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

dense (slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity)

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 Context examples: 

Lymphoid tissue is framed by a network of reticular fibers and may be diffuse, or densely aggregated.

(Lymphoid Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

The images show both of Jupiter's poles are covered in Earth-sized swirling storms that are densely clustered and rubbing together.

(First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission, NASA)

Almost all the polar cyclones, at both poles, are so densely packed that their spiral arms come in contact with adjacent cyclones.

(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)

The cell nuclei are large, ovoid to round and are not basally located with marked irregular nuclear membranes, cleared, vesicular, clumped, or densely hyperchromatic chromatin, and large conspicuous nucleoli.

(High Grade Flat Tubular Dysplasia of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

The fourth layer of the cerebral cortex, composed of many densely packed granule cells with short axons and some small pyramidal cells, and traversed by a stria of horizontally arranged fibers.

(Internal Granular Layer of the Cerebral Cortex, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic appearance consisting of small, irregular regions of necrosis surrounded by dense accumulations of tumor cells; the tumor cells are more densely packed at the edge of the necrosis than in other regions of the tumor and thus appear to palisade around the necrotic zone.

(Palisading Necrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

An area of densely packed modified epithelial cells lining the wall of the distal convoluted tubule of the kidney that is adjacent to the afferent arteriole just before it enters the glomerulus and is in direct apposition to the juxtaglomerular cells.

(Macula Densa, NCI Thesaurus)

In an investigation of 19 sites in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, scientists discovered that heavily deforested areas leach organic carbon that is significantly older and more biodegradable than the organic carbon leached from densely forested regions.

(Tropical soil disturbance could be hidden source of carbon dioxide, National Science Foundation)