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{
"term": "transparent",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "allowing you to see through it",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The insect's wings are almost transparent."
},
{
"text": "Her eyelids were blue and almost transparent."
},
{
"text": "They are so thin that they are quite transparent."
},
{
"text": "I've covered the photographs with transparent plastic sheets."
},
{
"text": "They trade in transparent coloured gems such as rubies and sapphires."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["appear", "be", "look"],
"adverb": ["very", "completely", "entirely"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "that you can easily see is false; allowing you to see the truth easily",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a transparent attempt to buy votes"
},
{
"text": "a transparent lie/ploy/ruse"
},
{
"text": "Am I that transparent? *(= are my intentions that obvious?)*"
},
{
"text": "a man of transparent honesty"
}
],
"synonyms": "obvious",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["appear", "be", "look"],
"adverb": ["very", "completely", "entirely"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "easy to understand",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a campaign to make official documents more transparent"
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["appear", "be", "look"],
"adverb": ["very", "completely", "entirely"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/trænsˈpærənt/",
"audio": "tr/transparent/transparent__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/trænsˈpærənt/",
"audio": "tr/transparent/transparent__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin transparent- ‘shining through’, from Latin transparere, from trans- ‘through’ + parere ‘appear’."
}