Cense vs Dense - What's the difference?
cense | dense |
(obsolete) To perfume with incense.
* Dryden
(obsolete) A census.
(obsolete) A public rate or tax.
(obsolete) condition; rank
Having relatively high density.
Compact; crowded together.
Thick; difficult to penetrate.
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, title= Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
Obscure, or difficult to understand.
(mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on (dense set)s for mathematical definition.
Of a person, slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
As a verb cense
is (obsolete) to perfume with incense.As a noun cense
is (obsolete) a census.As an adjective dense is
having relatively high density.cense
English
Etymology 1
Verb
- The Salii sing and cense his altars round.
Etymology 2
(etyl) cense, (etyl) cens, (etyl) (lena) census.Noun
(en noun)- (Howell)
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Ben Jonson)
Anagrams
* ----dense
English
Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}