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| gauzy |
thin, light, and transparent; gauzelike. |
| glass |
a hard, breakable, usu. transparent material made from silica and metallic oxides and used for windows, bottles, mirrors, and the like. [1/5 definitions] |
| glassine |
a thin, tough, nearly transparent paper used in packaging, as for book jackets and envelope windows. |
| glaze |
a transparent coating used to modify the tones of a painting or painted surface. [1/9 definitions] |
| highlighter |
a marker having a broad felt tip and transparent, often fluorescent ink, applied to lines of text to indicate their importance. |
| hornbook |
formerly, a child's primer for reading or math, consisting of a page of material covered by a transparent sheet of horn and framed. [1/2 definitions] |
| hyaline |
a transparent or hornlike substance sometimes found in cysts or in cartilage. [1/4 definitions] |
| hymenopteran |
any insect of a large group including bees, wasps, and ants, many of whose members have two pairs of transparent wings, live in colonies, and have biting or sucking mouths. [1/2 definitions] |
| isinglass |
a mineral compound containing silica that can be separated into thin, often transparent layers; mica. [1/2 definitions] |
| lantern |
a housing or case with openings or transparent sections through which light can shine, used to protect, transport, direct, or ornament the light it contains. [1/3 definitions] |
| LCD |
abbreviation of "liquid crystal display," a device that employs a film of transparent liquid crystals that become opaque when electrified, so that the pattern of opaque and transparent crystals can form letters or numbers, as in electronic watches, calculators, and the like. |
| lens |
a piece of molded or ground transparent material such as glass, whose surfaces are curved so as to cause the divergence or convergence of light rays passing through it. [1/3 definitions] |
| limpid |
perfectly clear; transparent. [1/3 definitions] |
| lucid |
transparent. [1/3 definitions] |
| lymph |
a transparent, usu. yellowish liquid produced by body tissues that is rich in white blood cells. |
| mao tai |
a strong, transparent liquor from China that is distilled from sorghum, a cereal grass. |
| mica |
any of a group of silicated minerals occurring as crystalline structures that separate into thin, often transparent, chips or sheets, used as electrical insulation and as a substitute for glass at high temperatures; isinglas. |
| morganite |
a kind of rose-colored, transparent beryl considered as a semiprecious stone. |
| nictitating membrane |
a thin, transparent membrane that forms an inner eyelid on birds, reptiles, and some mammals, that can be closed to keep the eye clean and moist. |
| obvious |
having no subtlety; transparent. [1/2 definitions] |
| oilpaper |
paper made transparent and water-resistant by soaking in oil. |
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