All 11 Uses
transparent
in
The Invisible Man, by Wells
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- One could make an animal—a tissue—transparent!
Chpt 19 *transparent = capable of being clearly seen through
- 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.†
Chpt 19
- He's more transparent!†
Chpt 19
- Just think of all the things that are transparent and seem not to be so.†
Chpt 19
- Paper, for instance, is made up of transparent fibres, and it is white and opaque only for the same reason that a powder of glass is white and opaque.†
Chpt 19
- Oil white paper, fill up the interstices between the particles with oil so that there is no longer refraction or reflection except at the surfaces, and it becomes as transparent as glass.†
Chpt 19
- And not only paper, but cotton fibre, linen fibre, wool fibre, woody fibre, and bone, Kemp, flesh, Kemp, hair, Kemp, nails and nerves, Kemp, in fact the whole fabric of a man except the red of his blood and the black pigment of hair, are all made up of transparent, colourless tissue.†
Chpt 19
- But the essential phase was to place the transparent object whose refractive index was to be lowered between two radiating centres of a sort of ethereal vibration, of which I will tell you more fully later.†
Chpt 20
- I shall never forget that dawn, and the strange horror of seeing that my hands had become as clouded glass, and watching them grow clearer and thinner as the day went by, until at last I could see the sickly disorder of my room through them, though I closed my transparent eyelids.†
Chpt 20
- Foolish as it seems to me now, I had not reckoned that, transparent or not, I was still amenable to the weather and all its consequences.†
Chpt 21
- And looking where she pointed, everyone saw, faint and transparent as though it was made of glass, so that veins and arteries and bones and nerves could be distinguished, the outline of a hand, a hand limp and prone.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(transparent as in: transparent shower door) able to be seen through with clarity
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(2)
(transparent as in: transparent lie) obvious despite attempts to hide
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(3)
(transparent as in: transparent decision making) easily observable or understood
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)