transparent
Collocations
6(adj.)
VERBS
be, look | become
ADV
extremely, very
completely, entirely, fully, perfectly, quite, totally
The glass door was completely transparent, so we could see directly into the office.
almost
The glass door was almost transparent, so we could see straight through to the garden.
fairly, rather, slightly
Definitions
adj
See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly.
"You make the glass invisible by putting it into a liquid of nearly the same refractive index; a transparent thing becomes invisible if it is put in any medium of almost the same refractive index."
The waters of the lake were transparent until the factory dumped waste there.
See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly.
Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly visible, thereby reducing the chance of corruption.
Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.
His reasons for the decision were transparent.
I love playing poker with Steve, because he's so transparent.
Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
noun
Something that is transparent.
The Dress Cap and Under-Sleeves are en suite. In both the puffings are separated by equal intervals, in which the transparents are uncovered.
They can be obtained in various thicknesses and in many colors, including beautiful imitations of pearl, mother-of-pearl, veins and mottles, stratifications, roll stratifications, imitation corals, and all colors of translucents, transparents and opaques, grained ivory, shell (plain and corrugated mottle), onyx, wood effects, plaids, checks, stripes, metallic, bronze pearl plain, bronze pearl with fancy blocks, bronze pearl in veins and stripes, and what is called “essence pearl.”
noun
A transgender or transsexual parent.
He went to tranny day in the park. Transparents & their kids. Played baseball & cooked out; hot dogs & burgers & buns on the grill.
Recently the genre has expanded to consider the lives of transpersons of color as well as the experiences of transparents.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — transmitting light
- crystalline
- limpid
- lucid
- pellucid
adjective — free of deceit
- guileless
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6"You make the glass invisible by putting it into a liquid of nearly the same refractive index; a transparent thing becomes invisible if it is put in any medium of almost the same refractive index."
WiktionaryThe waters of the lake were transparent until the factory dumped waste there.
WiktionaryHis reasons for the decision were transparent.
WiktionaryThe Dress Cap and Under-Sleeves are en suite. In both the puffings are separated by equal intervals, in which the transparents are uncovered.
WiktionaryThey can be obtained in various thicknesses and in many colors, including beautiful imitations of pearl, mother-of-pearl, veins and mottles, stratifications, roll stratifications, imitation corals, an
WiktionaryThe trick is to make the white core slightly smaller than the size ultimately required for the press, so that after the transparents are added, the bead won’t overflow the press cavity.
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