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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translucent/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translucent/#x1)
- The bathroom window is translucent, so no one can see in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translucent/#x2)
- Light comes through the translucent curtain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translucent/#x3)
- Is wax paper transparent, translucent or opaque? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translucent/#x4)
- The jellyfish has a translucent body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translucent/#x5)
- We tested which materials are translucent with a torch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translucent/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/53-light/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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