Transparent
[træn'spær(ə)nt;trɑːn-;-'speə-] or [træns'pærənt]
Definition
(adj.) easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety); 'a transparent explanation'; 'a transparent lie' .
Editor: Pasquale--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque.
(a.) Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil.
Typist: Ruben
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Diaphanous, pellucid, clear, lucid, bright, limpid, crystalline, pearly, TRANSLUCENT, that may be seen through.
Inputed by Henrietta
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pellucid, crystalline, translucent, limpid, diaphanous, obvious, clear,indisputable, self-evident
ANT:Thick, turbid, opaque, intransparent, mysterious, dubious, questionable
Editor: Stacy
Examples
- It had a pale ruddy sea-bottom, with black crabs and sea-weed moving sinuously under a transparent sea, that passed into flamy ruddiness above. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A motion-picture film is a thin ribbon of transparent pyroxylin plastic or nitrocellulose, which is highly inflammable. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is quite too transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- When light passes from air into water, or from any transparent substance into another of different density, its direction is changed, and it emerges along an entirely new path (Fig. 64). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I have always thought that Machiavelli derives his bad name from a too transparent honesty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But there is something so remarkably transparent about Meyler's skin. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He had put up a hand between his eyes and the light, and the very bones of it seemed transparent. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The seeming antisocial philosophy was a somewhat transparent mask for an impetus toward a wider and freer society--toward cosmopolitanism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Transparent reigning family took too to the waters, or retired to their hunting lodges. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Out at the center is clear, transparent, unbroken, unflawed, purest blue-white ice, such as you delight to see in your glass on a hot day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Gravel grated beneath their feet, and about them was the transparent dimness of a midsummer night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- When the mass cools it becomes a yellowish, transparent, glacial substance, tough and deliquescent. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- So far as I know--and I believe his honest heart was transparent to me--he never wavered again, in his solemn certainty of finding her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He could not be relieved from duty in the field where all his battles had been victories: the design would have been too transparent. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In many cases men work in diving suits rather than in caissons; these suits are made of rubber except for the head piece, which is of metal provided with transparent eyepieces. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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