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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transparent \Trans*par"ent\, a. [F., from LL. transparens, -entis, p. pr. of transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to appear. See Appear.]
Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to opaque. ``Transparent elemental air.''
--Milton.-
Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil.
--Dryden.Syn: Translucent; pellucid; clear; bright; limpid; lucid; diaphanous. See Translucent. [1913 Webster] -- Trans*par"ent*ly, adv. -- Trans*par"ent*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Medieval Latin transparentem (nominative transparens), present participle of transparere "show light through," from Latin trans- "through" (see trans-) + parere "come in sight, appear" (see appear). Figurative sense of "easily seen through" is first attested 1590s. The attempt to back-form a verb transpare (c.1600) died with the 17c. Related: Transparently.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a material or object English) see-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly. 2 (context of a system or organization English) open, public; having the property that theory and practices are publicly visible, thereby reduce the chance of corruption. 3 obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.
WordNet
adj. 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, lucid, pellucid]
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, see-through, sheer, vaporous, cobwebby]
free of deceit [syn: guileless]
easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety); "a transparent explanation"; "a transparent lie"
Wikipedia
Transparent is a collaborative release by the band Coil with Zos Kia and credited to "Zos Kia/Coil".
The cassette version was released in 1984 on Nekrophile Rekords with catalogue number NRC 05. The CD version was released in 1997 on the label "Threshold House" with catalogue number LOCI CD 13. The 12" version of this was released in 1998 on "Eskaton/World Serpent" with catalogue number ESKATON 017.
The vinyl is etched as follows:
Side A: ZONE OF SOULS
Side B: KILLED IN ACTION
Transparent is the second studio album by the American Christian duo LaRue formed by the siblings Natalie LaRue and Phillip LaRue, released on January 24, 2001 on CD.
Transparent is a 2005 documentary film written, directed, and produced by Jules Rosskam. Its title is a play on the words “trans” and “parent” implying the invisibility of transgender parenting in society today. The documentary follows 19 female-to-male transsexuals from 14 different states who have given birth to, and in most cases, gone on to raise, their biological children and the challenges they face while transitioning.
The film is most well-known for its viewing at the Cineffable Film Festival in October 2006, Paris’s International Lesbian and Feminist Festival, and was featured in the September 2006 issue of Curve magazine as one of the Ten Must-See Gender Documentaries, represented as one of the best examples of New Trans Cinema alongside well-known films such as Transamerica, Boys Don't Cry and Soldier's Girl.
Transparent is a rock band from upstate New York consisting of Matthew Sassano (vocals), Bradley Meise (guitars), Quintin Olix (guitars). Transparent's song, "Bridges" is the main menu song on NASCAR The Game: Inside Line that was released on November 6, 2012. The band released their first full-length album, Light in Darkness, with 11 original songs on June 6, 2013. They have opened for bands such as Project 86, Scarlet White and Cry to the Blind. The band was formed in October 2010. Their logo consists of a pink and purple ribcage, which is prevalently used on promotional materials and the album covers of the untitled 4 song demo (2011), 8 song "Light in Darkness EP" (2012) and the 11 song full length album, "Light in Darkness" (2013).
Transparent is an American comedy web television series created by Jill Soloway for Amazon Studios that debuted on February 6, 2014. The story revolves around a Los Angeles family and their lives following the discovery that the person they knew as their father Mort ( Jeffrey Tambor) is transgender. Transparent's first season premiered in full on September 26, 2014, the second season on December 11, 2015. The series has been renewed for a third season. which will premiere on September 23, 2016. Amazon has already picked up the series for a fourth season, ahead of the premiere of the third.
At the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, the show won the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy, while Jeffrey Tambor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. This is the first show produced by Amazon Studios to win a major award and the first show produced by a streaming media service to win a Golden Globe for Best Series.
Usage examples of "transparent".
Genar-Hofoen had the suit appear milkily silver to an Affronter over most of its surface while keeping the hands and head transparent.
Strabismus drew the diagrams but used the newfangled appliqué alphabets printed on transparent cellophane for the lettering.
He was a workmanlike but not a charismatic speaker, reading with level intonation from the autocue on the transparent lectern in front of him, and punching up the relevant slides at the relevant moments.
Pliny, in affected though forcible language, has condemned the thirst of gain, which explores the last confines of the earth, for the pernicious purpose of exposing to the public eye naked draperies and transparent matrons.
Shortly after the tentacles have reexpanded, the little masses of protoplasm are all redissolved, and the purple fluid within the cells becomes as homogeneous and transparent as it was at first.
The medicament consisted of transparent capsules, three quarters full of a dark-brown powder.
The tiger was one of the last to go, but finally they got him into his cage, and dropped the transparent metalloid door in front of him.
He turns off his view of the Metaverse entirely, making the goggles totally transparent.
Ahead of Michaelmas were storage cubes, work surfaces, instrumentation panels, sterile racks of teasing needles, forceps and scalpels, microtomes, a bank of micromanipulative devices all shrouded beneath transparent flexible dust hoods or safe behind glassy panels.
Any one of them must have weighed over twice what I did, and they all wore slick armor, the transparent tight-bond monomolecular stuff.
I had seen her she had been clad in a thin layer of transparent soap bubbles I thought that this was overdoing it a little.
The evening vapours rose between the leafless poplars, touching their outlines with a violet tint, paler and more transparent than a subtle gauze caught athwart their branches.
He cleared the holographic panes of their script and graphs, giving the intelligence operative an expectant glance through the transparent glass.
Therefore Angus Parvis, treading the ground of Titan with heavy steps, gave no thought to the black shaft above his head, or to the pushbutton glowing like a ruby within its transparent little bubble-case.
The guards in the bartizans were not city roundsmen but peltasts in half-armor, bearing transparent shields.