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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lucid
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a lucid analysis of the situation
▪ At the moment, Peter is lucid and quite talkative, but his condition is becoming worse.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After finishing, she became lucid, recognized Jung, and greeted him.
▪ Churchland's Matter and Consciousness is an equally lucid introduction to the philosophy of mind.
▪ If the doctor thinks the patient isn't sufficiently lucid or mature, then the decision should be ignored.
▪ Miranda Seymour's lucid biography arrives as the general reader's guide to Mary Shelley's ascent to academic cult status.
▪ Reach out: what is not included in this lucid air?
▪ Though small and frail, he was a powerful and lucid debater.
▪ You have such a lucid style.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lucid

Lucid \Lu"cid\, a. [L. lucidus, fr. lux, lucis, light. See Light, n.]

  1. Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.

    Lucid, like a glowworm.
    --Sir I. Newton.

    A court compact of lucid marbles.
    --Tennyson.

  2. Clear; transparent. `` Lucid streams.''
    --Milton.

  3. Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.

    A lucid and interesting abstract of the debate.
    --Macaulay.

  4. Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.

    Syn: Luminous; bright; clear; transparent; sane; reasonable. See Luminous.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lucid

1590s, "bright, shining," from Latin lucidus "light, bright, clear," figuratively "perspicuous, lucid, clear," from lucere "to shine," from lux (genitive lucis) "light," from PIE root *leuk- "to shine, be bright" (see light (n.)). Sense of "easy to understand" first recorded 1786. Lucid interval "period of calm or temporary sanity" (1580s) is from Medieval Latin lucida intervalla (plural), which was common in medieval English legal documents (non est compos mentis, sed gaudet lucidis intervallis). Related: Lucidly; lucidness (1640s).

Wiktionary
lucid

a. 1 clear; easily understood 2 mentally rational; sane 3 bright, luminous, translucent or transparent n. A lucid dream.

WordNet
lucid
  1. adj. (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: limpid, luculent, pellucid, crystal clear, perspicuous]

  2. having a clear mind; "a lucid moment in his madness"

  3. capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident" [syn: coherent, logical]

  4. transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal" [syn: crystalline, crystal clear, limpid, pellucid, transparent]

Wikipedia
Lucid (programming language)

Lucid is a dataflow programming language. It is designed to experiment with non- von Neumann programming models. It was designed by Bill Wadge and Ed Ashcroft and described in the book Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language.

LUCID

LUCID (Langton Ultimate Cosmic ray Intensity Detector) is a cosmic ray detector built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and designed at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, in Canterbury, England. Its main purpose is to monitor cosmic rays using technology developed by CERN, and will help predict the occurrence of solar flares (proton storms) which disrupt artificial satellites. LUCID was launched on 8 July 2014 at Baikonur, Kazakhstan as an instrument of the satellite TechDemoSat-1, which was carried into space by a Soyuz-2 rocket.

Professor Larry Pinsky, Chair of Physics at the University of Houston, described the project in Symmetry Magazine as "like playing at being NASA or the European Space Agency, but they’re not really playing. They’re doing the real thing.”

Channel 4 News said of the LUCID project that "with this metal box, the school has outwitted NASA".

Lucid (film)

Lucid is a 2005 Canadian film written and directed by Sean Garrity. It won the award for Best Western Canadian Feature Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2005 and it was nominated for Best Film at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival in 2006.

Lucid (album)

Lucid is the fifth studio album by American R&B singer Lyfe Jennings. The album was released on October 8, 2013, by Mass Appeal Entertainment. On May 8, 2013, the album's first single "Boomerang" was released. On July 25, 2013, the music video was released for "Boomerang".

Usage examples of "lucid".

In his more lucid moments he was relieved at how well Alec was managing, though the fact that the boy had not yet slipped away, despite ample justification and opportunity, continued to baffle him.

But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.

The subjective experience of lucid dreaming is so symbolically resonant with ancient Asian religious conceptions of how God creates the universe that the cultivation of lucid dreaming has been a religious and meditative discipline since before Patanjali first wrote down the oral poems of instruction in yoga meditation around 800 B.

I would attempt to incubate lucid dreaming with the focus of attention that I would fly.

In the Hindu-Buddhist and Taoist traditions, lucid dreaming has been cultivated for religious reasons for more than twenty-five hundred years.

She was very voluble, gesticulatory and lucid, but unhappily bi-lingual, and at all the crucial points German.

Only to parley, mind you, as we have heard from the lips of Lesk himself, most lucid of Lords.

Carl Ratan became the centre of a group of workers inspired by the idea of making English more lucid and comprehensive and a truly universal language.

The unfortunate Charles, though he enjoyed some lucid intervals, continually relapsed into furious or stupid insanity: the reins of government were alternately seized by his brother and uncle, the dukes of Orleans and Burgundy, whose factious competition prepared the miseries of civil war.

It was John Scripture, and he was assisted, from time to time, by an aged and lunatic father who, in his lucid intervals, would be let out from his captivity under the eaves of the lodge to putter amid the lewd topiarian extravagance of the hedges.

She was, however, lucid enough to realize that this was the result not of the anisette but of her imminent return.

Since he had regained consciousness, Baculum had been both lucid and passive, if completely uncooperative.

Now that he had begun to be frank and lucid, Bernard found a charm in it, and the impulse under which he had spoken urged him almost violently forward.

He cursed out loud, scolding himself for his inability to release the memories: the maelstrom of hypnagogic images superimposed upon all that he saw, the recollections of the accident tearing apart and blending back together again in a blurry mixture of lucid truth and deceptive mirage, the deafening blare of the horns in helpless warning, the walls of the chambers flashing in a fluctuating rhythm to the horns, between glowing red and pitch black, the faces burning and falling off everyone as the radiation surge hit, the crumbling support beams collapsing all about them, his own flesh melting, the blackness closing in.

Bar-nave, who was one of the most lucid observers of events, saw that the importance of the meeting was to shake loose opposition rhetoric from the grip of Parlementaire conservatism.