transparent vs translucent
Definitions
adjective
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety)
- free of deceit
- so thin as to transmit light
Examples
He drew with his brush in transparent glaze and build up form with multiple stokes.
It floods the car with light and on a hot day there's a button that can turn it from transparent to opaque.
Verizon Wireless done transparent from the start that the Droid smartphone was designed to put vigour upon Apple, the builder of the iPhone, as well as AT&T (T), the exclusive U.S. iPhone carrier.
Definitions
adjective
- allowing light to pass through diffusely
Examples
The 52 cm high sculpture is carved in translucent Egyptian alabaster and represents a royal female of the Amarna Period, between 1350-1334 B.C.
After our eyes adjust, we find the walls to be a gorgeous translucent blue, the surface scalloped into smooth, symmetrical wavelets.
It would have been dark except for the light coming from the translucent side panels.
