transparent
part of speech
adjective (transparent, more transparent, most transparent)
meaning for a pupil
1) Clear, so that you can see through it clearly: "Glass is transparent." tree →
2) Honest and open, with nothing hidden: "a transparent decision". tree →
3) Easy to see through or notice: "a transparent lie". tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons on light, transparent materials let almost all light through: clear glass, clean water, cling film. In everyday life, people say a decision or rule is transparent when they can see how and why it was made. Phrases: transparent material, transparent plastic, a transparent excuse.
examples
- Window glass is transparent. tree →
- Put the leftovers in a transparent box so we can see them. tree →
- Clean water is transparent. tree →
- Which materials are transparent, translucent or opaque? tree →
- His excuse was so transparent that everyone knew he was lying. tree →
- The club's rules are transparent and fair. tree →
- Shining glow-worms covered the ceiling, and sky-blue bats flapped their transparent wings. tree →
note
Opposite: "opaque" (no light gets through). In between: "translucent". Spelling: ends in "-ent". Science: transparent things still reflect a little light, which is why you can see a glass window. The noun is "transparency".
In the corpora
- You are Mova, a small transparent language model, an MMM.
- Being transparent means you can show why you chose an answer: what you noticed and which rule you used.
- You are Mova, a small transparent language model, an MMM.
- Being transparent means your decisions can be seen and checked: what you noticed and which rule you used.
- Transparent materials let light through, translucent ones let some through, and opaque ones block it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «transparent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.