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translucent as in: translucent shower door
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I could see a vague form through the translucent glass.translucent = allowing light to pass through without providing a clear image
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We could see an insect entombed in the translucent amber.
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Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,† (source)
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I missed my white friends and white teachers and my translucent semi-girlfriend. (source)translucent = almost transparent
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His skin really was translucent, even more so than I'd imagined. (source)
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The boy's candlecolored skin was all but translucent. (source)translucent = almost transparent -- allowing light to pass through without providing a clear image
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The sky was a translucent gray, and gusts of a clammy, cold wind kept rattling the screen door. (source)translucent = almost transparent -- allowing light to pass through without providing a clear image
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And I myself preferred not to see him in strong sunshine, for his pale, membranic skin was no barrier to the light, which pierced deep into the flesh and illumined it to a hideous translucency.† (source)
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He was about thirty-five years old, broad-shouldered, stout, considerably shorter than the two men across from him, so that he had to tip his head back to look them in the eye, and extraordinarily pale— there was almost a translucence, even phosphorescence, to his pallor, and it was enhanced by dark, glowing eyes, black eyebrows, and a rather long beard that already showed a few gray strands and ended in two diverging points.† (source)
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That is why I have remained loyal to Kurtz to the last, and even beyond, when a long time after I heard once more, not his own voice, but the echo of his magnificent eloquence thrown to me from a soul as translucently pure as a cliff of crystal.† (source)translucently = in a manner that is almost transparent -- allowing light to pass through without providing a clear image
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I'll be wearing a flimsy plastic gown, semitranslucent, like the kind you get in hospitals, so that they can see my body.† (source)semitranslucent = allowing very little light to pass through diffuselystandard prefix: The prefix "semi-" in semitranslucent means half or partially. This is the same pattern you see in words like semicircle, semisweet, and semiautomatic.
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A diamond box would neither absorb much of the light nor reflect much from the general surface, but just here and there where the surfaces were favourable the light would be reflected and refracted, so that you would get a brilliant appearance of flashing reflections and translucencies—a sort of skeleton of light.† (source)translucencies = glimpses that are almost transparent
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he flat seed pods were still thick and green, but later, in the fall, the skin would dry thin, and cold winds would strip away the hull to the last translucent membrane, holding the dark eyes of the seed inside it. (source)translucent = almost transparent -- allowing light to pass through without providing a clear image
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There was a quality of-translucency?† (source)
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This close up, Jace could see Max's face clearly—his poreless child's skin, the translucence of his eyelids, his eyes—Jace didn't remember him having such dark eyes.† (source)
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Flashes of steam showed intermittently on the wide horizon, gleaming translucently in the winter sun.† (source)translucently = in a manner that is almost transparent -- allowing light to pass through without providing a clear image
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