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see-through

Word definitions for see-through in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" See-Through " is the fourth episode of the second season and sixteenth overall episode of the American television drama series Dexter , which first aired on 21 October 2007 on Showtime in the United States. The episode was written by Scott Buck and was ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. transparent or translucent; that can be see through alt. transparent or translucent; that can be see through

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ She posed for 'Vogue' in a see-through black teddy. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Between the moon and my see-through roof a purple storm was blowing the dust of some previous war into the waste spaces. ▪ Bring a red biro ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks" [syn: diaphanous , filmy , gauzy , gossamer ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1950, from the verbal phrase (c.1400); see see (v.) + through (adv.).

Usage examples of see-through.

Sara wears clothes I swear I threw out twenty-five years ago, those shapeless, see-through, Indian caftans I have since come to despise, unlike Michelle, my fourteen-year-old, who will only wear clothes from Club Monaco and nitors each family altercathe Gap, and who carefully MOTION from the sidelines, commenting on the action later, like some skinny, adolescent Greek chorus.

Mother Ship or whatever exactly it was that was surely their origin also went away: not away in any trackable or pursuable direction, just away, becoming less distinct on the various tracking and spying devices, producing less data, fibrillating, becoming see-through finally and then unable to be seen.

I supposed they thought I had box cutters hidden under my skintight, slightly see-through white stretchy shirt.

He wore a tentlike garment that resembled a crazy quilt stitched together from countless scraps of expensive fabric: velvets, satins, brocades, lace, leathers, even bits of tapestry, trapunto work, and see-through tulle embroidered in gold and silver.

Left unsupervised, she might shock the Argentines and everyone else for that matter with see-through fabrics and slits up to her waist.

Just the thing to go with that glytex suit with the see-through lubricant ducts and tungsten bearings.

On tables everywhere finished gems were displayed in individual see-through boxes with electronic tags embedded in the clear plastic.

The salesgirl, very sexily dressed and made up, just smiled as Minni showed me crotchless panties, bras with holes for the nipples to show through, filmy nightgowns, garters, patterned nylons, very short tight skirts only about 10-inches from waist to hem, see-through blouses, and all sorts of other stuff.

He and Toyama had witnessed the meeting from behind the dais, the wall there deliberately made see-through from the inner side.

Mother Ship or whatever exactly it was that was surely their origin also went away: not away in any trackable or pursuable direction, just away, becoming less distinct on the various tracking and spying devices, producing less data, fibrillating, becoming see-through finally and then unable to be seen.

The peekaboo brassiere with its insets of see-through lace, the high-waisted panties, and the self-supporting stockings were like something out of an old Betty Page comic.

In the bulb-lit fish tank across from Sabrina’s room—all the light in the hall came from these tanks, dapples of cool aquamarine on the walls and floor—the fish swam in hypnotized and hypnotizing schools: fish with stripes or spots, fish with lacy wedding-gown fins and tails, fish with see-through skins and bones aglow like tiny Christmas trees.

I supposed they thought I had box cutters hidden under my skintight, slightly see-through white stretchy shirt.

Hilton swore under his breath as a woman in a flame-colored, nearly see-through dress brushed up against him as she slipped past, smiling seductively up at him.

But a feature film requires more of an actor's performance than being willing to take a bubble bath in a see-through tub.