OPAQUE


Meaning of OPAQUE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

glass

Behind the opaque glass screen Franklin D. Hauser mopped his sweating forehead.

There was a separate shower to my immediate left with an opaque glass door, bathtub adjacent.

Manescu had the impression the apparition behind the opaque glass wall was drinking from an absurdly shaped vessel.

The opaque glasses used for making the beads provide us with a somewhat different level of inference.

The bottle was made of opaque glass so that the contents could not be seen.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a dry opaque writing style

As the liquid cools it becomes cloudy and opaque .

huge opaque clouds

Keep herbs and spices in opaque glass bottles to protect them from sunlight.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Actual blindness occurs only after years and years, and is caused by infestation of the cornea - which eventually becomes opaque .

By late afternoon the sky was completely opaque and a thick gloom hung over the ocean as if night had fallen prematurely.

Cats aren't so easy - more opaque , you could say.

If I had my way it would be opaque Lycra tights every day of the week.

It was a foggy, chilly day, without sunshine so the sea was murky and opaque .

The windows are opaque , and the curtains you can see on the second floor are light gray.

Virtually all the large bottles here are of thick, opaque blue glass.

Wullschlager tackles the crucial but opaque question of Andersen's sexuality with tact, resisting psychoanalytic facilities.

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