Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree.
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- adjective Slightly
clear ; allowing a small amount oflight to pass through.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A sound like ripping fabric broke the silence as my feet hit the semitranslucent path, and I was frozen.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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That side of the head had crystallized irregularly, revealing the cranial cavity, from which the semitranslucent light seemed to pour.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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A sound like ripping fabric broke the silence as my feet hit the semitranslucent path, and I was frozen.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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That side of the head had crystallized irregularly, revealing the cranial cavity, from which the semitranslucent light seemed to pour.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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Some of the semitranslucent fabric panel sections will be up to 120 feet wide and run over two miles long.
Christo vs. Colorado 2010
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Widgets, which are small, easily downloadable computer applications, typically expand to a semitranslucent, overlaying panel on the left, or your program can be resized so you don't lose any of the picture.
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The bed was surrounded by semitranslucent plastic curtains that made it impossible to identify the figure lying on it.
The Overload Protocol Mark Walden 2009
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The bed was surrounded by semitranslucent plastic curtains that made it impossible to identify the figure lying on it.
The Overload Protocol Mark Walden 2009
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Those spots became semitranslucent, as if clogged with thick jelly of some kind, no longer as solid looking as they had been.
Love and Death Jeff Mariotte 2004
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But then—almost grudgingly, it seemed—a few spots on the chambers wall took on the familiar, semitranslucent, gelatinous cast.
Love and Death Jeff Mariotte 2004
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