translucent

«translucent» in Mova's school dictionary: Letting some light pass through, but you cannot see… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (translucent)

meaning for a pupil

Letting some light pass through, but you cannot see clearly through it: "Frosted glass is translucent." tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on light, pupils sort materials into transparent (clear, see through), translucent (some light, blurry) and opaque (no light). Examples of translucent things: tracing paper, frosted glass, a thin leaf, some plastic. Phrases: translucent material, translucent plastic.

examples

• Tracing paper is translucent. tree →
• The bathroom window is translucent, so no one can see in. tree →
• Light comes through the translucent curtain. tree →
• Is wax paper transparent, translucent or opaque? tree →
• The jellyfish has a translucent body. tree →
• We tested which materials are translucent with a torch. tree →

note

Not the same as "transparent": transparent means you can see clearly through it; translucent lets light through but things look blurry. "Opaque" lets no light through. A science test: shine a torch at it and look.

In the corpora

• Transparent materials let light through, translucent ones let some through, and opaque ones block it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «translucent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.