adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
glass
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Behind the opaque glass screen Franklin D. Hauser mopped his sweating forehead.
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There was a separate shower to my immediate left with an opaque glass door, bathtub adjacent.
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Manescu had the impression the apparition behind the opaque glass wall was drinking from an absurdly shaped vessel.
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The opaque glasses used for making the beads provide us with a somewhat different level of inference.
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The bottle was made of opaque glass so that the contents could not be seen.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a dry opaque writing style
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As the liquid cools it becomes cloudy and opaque .
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huge opaque clouds
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Keep herbs and spices in opaque glass bottles to protect them from sunlight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Actual blindness occurs only after years and years, and is caused by infestation of the cornea - which eventually becomes opaque .
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By late afternoon the sky was completely opaque and a thick gloom hung over the ocean as if night had fallen prematurely.
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Cats aren't so easy - more opaque , you could say.
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If I had my way it would be opaque Lycra tights every day of the week.
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It was a foggy, chilly day, without sunshine so the sea was murky and opaque .
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The windows are opaque , and the curtains you can see on the second floor are light gray.
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Virtually all the large bottles here are of thick, opaque blue glass.
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Wullschlager tackles the crucial but opaque question of Andersen's sexuality with tact, resisting psychoanalytic facilities.