Definition: A thicket.
Alright class, settle down and letโs take a look!
Youโve hit on a really good point โ the dictionary gives us a solid starting place. โThicketโ is
part
of what "dense" means, but it's not the whole story, you see.
Letโs think about it like this:
Dense
describes something packed in tight, with little space between its parts.
Imagine a forest โ when it's dense, the trees are close together, blocking out much of the sunlight, right? It feels heavy and full.
Here are some other ways to understand it:
Think about density of objects:
A brick is denser than a feather - it has more stuff packed into the same space.
Dense can describe how thick something
feels
.
Like a dense chocolate cake!
So, โthicketโ gives us an image of crowded plants, but "dense" can also apply to things like air, sound, or even ideas โ all tightly packed together.
Do you have any questions about that? Letโs discuss how we see 'dense' in action around us!