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TRANSPARENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
Example:
transparent crystal
Synonyms:
crystal clear; crystalline; limpid; lucid; pellucid; transparent
Classified under:
Similar:
clear (allowing light to pass through)
Derivation:
transparence (the quality of being clear and transparent)
transparence; transparency (permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation)
transparentness (the quality of being clear and transparent)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety)
Example:
a transparent lie
Classified under:
Similar:
obvious (easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind)
Derivation:
transparency (the quality of being clear and transparent)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Free of deceit
Synonyms:
guileless; transparent
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
square; straight (characterized by honesty and fairness)
Sense 4
Meaning:
So thin as to transmit light
Example:
vaporous silks
Synonyms:
cobwebby; diaphanous; filmy; gauze-like; gauzy; gossamer; see-through; sheer; transparent; vaporous; vapourous
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
thin (of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section)
Derivation:
transparency (permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation)
transparentness (the quality of being clear and transparent)
Context examples:
It is characterized by the presence of a transparent membrane encasing the newborn.
(Lamellar Ichthyosis, NCI Thesaurus)
A brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure.
(Glass, NCI Thesaurus)
The transparent extraembryonic sac that holds the developing fetus and surrounding amniotic fluid.
(Amniotic Sac, NCI Thesaurus)
However, the droplets of water also compress the particle clusters, causing them to shadow each other and make the clustered state nearly transparent.
(Colour-changing artificial ‘chameleon skin’ powered by nanomachines, University of Cambridge)
A biconvex transparent structure of the eye through which light is focused on the retina.
(Lens, NCI Thesaurus)
Nanocomposites are a class of compounds with unique performance profiles with respect to rigidity and transparent barrier properties.
(Nanocomposite, NCI Thesaurus)
Her face was very pretty still, but it looked careworn, and too delicate; and her hand was so thin and white that it seemed to me to be almost transparent.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Look. I place the transparent scale on this star-map, revolving the scale on the North Pole.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
At the first coming of the dawn the horrid figures melted in the whirling mist and snow; the wreaths of transparent gloom moved away towards the castle, and were lost.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A transparent, elastic membrane that encloses the lens of the eye.
(Lens Capsule, NCI Thesaurus)
