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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the constituent grains, fibers, or elements closely compacted together; of closely compacted or dense structure or texture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells

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Examples

  • The same period also saw the creation of dance studies — composed of light, line and movement — of the major exponents of Expressionist dance (Gret Palucca [1902 – 1993] and Mary Wigman [1886 – 1973]); the Constructivist-inspired role portraits of the Moscow Chamber Theater (1925) and the Habimah Ensemble (1927); and their close-grained, New Expressionist stage reportage of important productions and significant open-air theater performances (Heidelberg Castle Theater Festival, Frankfurt-Römerberg Theater Festival).

    Nini Hess. 2009

  • Perched on iron wheels, it is lined with close-grained pine boards stained a deep honey-amber by years of woodsmoke seeping from the stove.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Perched on iron wheels, it is lined with close-grained pine boards stained a deep honey-amber by years of woodsmoke seeping from the stove.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Vital cities have marvelous innate abilities for understanding, communicating, contriving and inventing what is required to combat their difficulties… Surplus wealth, productivity, the close-grained juxtaposition of talents that permit society to support technological advances…are themselves products of our organization into cities, and especially dense cities…dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else.

    Archive 2008-03-01 susan 2008

  • Ruses served my turn to draw the time out-first a close-grained web

    "You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us." Ann Althouse 2007

  • The base of these hills was of close-grained white-coloured granite, or whinstone: the summits of good freestone: on the sides several good pieces of iron ore were picked up.

    Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

  • The ebony diapason was marked at the fifth, seventh, and twelfth frets with a pattern of ivory dots, and the rounded belly of it was composed of tapering strips of close-grained maple, separated skilfully by thin fillets of rosewood.

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

  • The wood of them, which is white, close-grained, tough, and light, is well adapted to that purpose.

    Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

  • The wood of them, which is white, close-grained, tough, and light, is well adapted to that purpose.

    Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

  • That blubber is something of the consistence of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

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