Denser vs Denier - What's the difference?
denser | denier |
(dense)
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.
An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.
* 2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 117:
A unit of weight which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery.
* 2002 , (Jill Mansell), Staying at Daisy's :
Person who something.
As an adjective denser
is comparative of dense.As a noun denier is
an old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.denser
English
Adjective
(head)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.}}
Synonyms
* (having relatively high density) solid * (crowded together) compact, crowded, packed * (difficult to penetrate) thick, solid * (allowing little light to pass through) cloudy, opaque * (difficult to understand) abstruse, difficult, hard, incomprehensible, obscure, tough * (slow to comprehend) dumb, slow, stupid, thickAntonyms
* (having relatively high density) * (crowded together) diffuse, few and far between (of things as opposed to one thing), scattered, sparse, rarefied * (difficult to penetrate) thin * (allowing little light to pass through) clear, diaphanous, see-through, translucent, transparent * (difficult to understand) clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable * (in mathematics) meager * (slow to comprehend) bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smartAnagrams
* * ----denier
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Etymology 1
(etyl) denier, from (etyl) denarius.Noun
(en noun)- A bronze denier bearing the inscription CONRADUS around a central cross, was minted in Lugdunum.
- Upstairs she rummaged through her chest of drawers, finally unearthing an unopened pack of ten denier barely blacks.
See also
* texEtymology 2
(deny).Noun
(en noun)- Holocaust denier (see )
- Global warming denier (see )
- AIDS denier (see )