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# opaque

«opaque» in Mova's school dictionary: **light cannot pass through it, so you cannot see through…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (opaque, more opaque, most opaque)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Opaque means light cannot pass through it, so you cannot see through it, like wood or a brick wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opaque/#m1)

2) Hard to understand; not clear (used about words or ideas). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opaque/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in science lessons about light: materials are transparent (clear, like glass), translucent (some light gets through, like tracing paper) or opaque (no light gets through, like cardboard). Opaque objects make shadows. In everyday life: opaque curtains, opaque tights.

### examples

- A brick is opaque. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opaque/#x1)
- Opaque objects block light and make shadows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opaque/#x2)
- We tested which materials were transparent, translucent or opaque. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opaque/#x3)
- The bathroom window has opaque glass so nobody can see in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opaque/#x4)
- Put the seeds in an opaque box to keep them in the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opaque/#x5)
- Her answer was so opaque that nobody understood it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opaque/#x6)
- Is aluminium foil opaque? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opaque/#x7)

### note

Pronounced "oh-PAKE". Opposite: transparent. Middle step: translucent. A trap: dark is not the same as opaque; dark sunglasses are still see-through.

### In the corpora

- [When something opaque blocks the light, a dark area with no light forms behind it — a shadow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/3/)
- [A shadow forms where an opaque object blocks the light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/12/)
- [Transparent materials let light through, translucent ones let some through, and opaque ones block it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «opaque» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/opaque/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.