different between silken vs transparent

English

Etymology

From Middle English silken, selken, seolkene, from Old English seolcen, equivalent to silk +? -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots selkin, silkin (“silken”), Icelandic silki (“silken”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?lk?n/
• Hyphenation: silk?en

Adjective

silken (not comparable)

1. Made of silk.

   a silken veil

2. Having a smooth, soft, or light texture, like that of silk; suggestive of silk.
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, “Vpon Mr. Staninough’s Death” in Steps to the Temple: Sacred Poems, with Other Delights of the Muses, London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 40,^[1]

     Come then youth, Beauty, and Blood, all ye soft powers,

     Whose silken flatteryes swell a few fond houres.

   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, London: J. Johnson, Part I, Chapter 9, p. 322,^[2]

     […] love is not to be bought, in any sense of the words, its silken wings are instantly shrivelled up when any thing beside a return in kind is sought.

   • 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, Chapter 1,^[3]

     […] in spite of the buzz in the next room, Edith had rolled herself up into a soft ball of muslin and ribbon, and silken curls, and gone off into a peaceful little after-dinner nap.

   • 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus, Random House, 2010, Chapter 2, p. 37,^[4]

     He heard the silken rustle of a dressing-gown being drawn on.

3. (figuratively, of speech, singing, oratory, etc.) Smoothly uttered; flowing, subtle, or convincing in presentation.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V, Scene 2,^[5]

     Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,

     Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,

     Figures pedantical; these summer-flies

     Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:

4. Dressed in silk.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act V, Scene 1,^[6]

     […] shall a beardless boy,

     A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […] ?

   • 1633, John Donne, “Satyre I” in Poems, London: John Marriot, p. 327,^[7]

     Yet though he cannot skip forth now to greet

     Every fine silken painted foole we meet,

     He then to him with amorous smiles allures,

   • 1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, London: S. Richardson & A. Wilde, 1730, Volume 2, No. 81, 28 December, 1724, p. 197,^[8]

     Last Saturday was three Weeks, at Two, in the Afternoon, I sent out my Servant, to watch a Couple of these Silken Strollers, and keep, if possible, within Ken of them.

   • 1968, Jan Morris, Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire, London: Faber & Faber, 2010, Chapter 10, p. 200,^[9]

     […] the Viceroy moved magnificently through India, resplendent with all the colour and dash of the vast Empire at his feet, with his superb bodyguard jangling scarlet beside his carriage, silken Indian princes bowing at his carpet, generals quivering at the salute and ceremonial salutes of thirty-one guns […]

Synonyms

• (made of silk): seric (rare)

Derived terms

• silkenly

Translations

Verb

silken (third-person singular simple present silkens, present participle silkening, simple past and past participle silkened)

1. (transitive) To render silken or silklike.

   silkening body lotion

   • 1757, John Dyer, The Fleece, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Book I, lines 492-494, p. 30,^[10]

     Or, if your sheep are of Silurian breed,

     Nightly to house them dry on fern or straw,

     Silk’ning their fleeces.

   • 1987, Derek Walcott, “The Light of the World” in The Arkansas Testament, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 48,^[11]

     […] these lights silkened her black skin:

Anagrams

• Elkins, Kinsel, Lesnik, inkles, k-lines, klines, likens

Middle English

Adjective

silken

1. Alternative form of selken

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

silken m

1. definite singular of silke

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

silken m

1. definite singular of silke

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tr?nsp?r?ns, tr?nsp?r?ntis (“transparent”), present participle of transpare?, from Latin trans + pare?. Displaced native Old English þurhs?ene.

Pronunciation

• (General American)
  • (Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA^(key): /t?æn(t)s?pæ??nt/, /t?ænz-/
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /t?æn(t)s?p???nt/, /t?ænz-/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?æn(t)s?pæ??nt/, /t?ænz?pæ??nt/

Adjective

transparent (comparative more transparent, superlative most transparent)

1. (of a material or object) See-through, clear; having the property that light passes through it almost undisturbed, such that one can see through it clearly.

   The waters of the lake were transparent until the factory dumped waste there.

   • 1897, H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, chapter 19,

     "You make the glass invisible by putting it into a liquid of nearly the same refractive index; a transparent thing becomes invisible if it is put in any medium of almost the same refractive index."

2. (of a system or organization) Open, public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly visible, thereby reducing the chance of corruption.
3. Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.

   His reasons for the decision were transparent.

4. (signal processing) Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
5. (computing) Not noticeable because it happens automatically or in the background; invisible.
   • 2003, Rolf Oppliger, Security Technologies for the World Wide Web (page 34)

     In order to make that transparent to the user, browsers usually cache the usernames and passwords and retransmit them automatically each time they contact the server.

Usage notes

• (see-through, clear): The term translucent is similar in meaning, but describes a material or object that diffuses light as it passes through. Looking through a transparent substance (such as a window), one can recognize objects on the other side. Looking through a translucent substance (such as frosted glass), one cannot see objects clearly, only light and shadow.

Synonyms

• (see-through, clear): see-through, diaphanous, clear, crystalline, limpid
• (obvious): apparent, clear, obvious

Antonyms

• (see-through, clear): opaque
• (obvious): obscure, opaque
• nontransparent
• non-transparent

Coordinate terms

• translucent

Derived terms

• transparently

Related terms

• transparency
• transparently
• transparentness

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tr?nsp?r?ns, tr?nsp?r?ntis (“transparent”), present participle of transpare?, from Latin trans + pare?.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /t??ns.p???ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /t??ns.p???en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /t?ans.pa??ent/
• Rhymes: -ent

Adjective

transparent (masculine and feminine plural transparents)

1. transparent

   Antonym: opac

Derived terms

• transparentment

Related terms

• transparència

Further reading

• “transparent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “transparent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “transparent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “transparent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Noun

transparent m

1. banner or placard

Danish

Adjective

transparent

1. transparent

Noun

transparent c or n (singular definite transparenten or transparentet, plural indefinite transparenter)

1. banner
2. transparency, overhead

Synonyms

• (banner): banner n
• (transparency): overhead c

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tr?nsp?r?ns, tr?nsp?r?ntis (“transparent”), present participle of transpare?, from Latin trans + pare?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???s.pa.???/

Adjective

transparent (feminine singular transparente, masculine plural transparents, feminine plural transparentes)

1. transparent; see-through

   Le verre est transparent.

   The glass is transparent.

2. translucid; allowing light to pass through

   Le voile est transparent.

   The veil is translucid.

3. clear

   un ciel transparent — a clear sky

   une lumière transparente — a clear light

4. transparent, easy to understand, unambiguous

   une allusion transparente — an unambiguous allusion

5. unnoticed; invisible

   J'étais transparent à ses regards.

   I was invisible to him/her.

6. (figuratively) transparent; not hiding anything

   Notre comptabilité est transparente.

   Our accounting is transparent.

7. (linguistics) having the same meaning in several languages

   un mot transparent — an international word

Antonyms

• (linguistics): faux-ami

Related terms

• transparence

Noun

transparent m (plural transparents)

1. paper having ruled lines put underneath a white sheet of paper in order to write straight

   Cet enfant ne saurait écrire sans transparent.

2. (obsolete) screen lit from behind (now: enseigne lumineuse)

   Le soir, cette boutique avait pour enseigne un magnifique transparent.

3. plastic film used to show images with an overhead

   La présentation était trop rapide. J'ai à peine eu le temps de recopier les transparents.

References

• “transparent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

• “transparent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Etymology

18th century, from French transparent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?anspa???nt/

Adjective

transparent (comparative transparenter, superlative am transparentesten)

1. translucent (allowing light to pass through)

   Synonym: lichtdurchlässig

2. (less common) fully transparent; see-through

   Synonym: durchsichtig

3. (figuratively) transparent

   Synonyms: durchschaubar, nachvollziehbar

Declension

Derived terms

• Transparent
• Transparentpapier
• Transparenz

Further reading

• “transparent” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

tr?nsp?rent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of tr?nsp?re?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French transparent, from Medieval Latin transparens, from Latin transparere

Adjective

transparent (indefinite singular transparent, definite singular and plural transparente, comparative mer transparent, superlative mest transparent)

1. transparent (quality of a material)

Synonyms

• gjennomsiktig

Noun

transparent m (definite singular transparenten, indefinite plural transparenter, definite plural transparentene)
transparent n (definite singular transparentet, indefinite plural transparent or transparenter, definite plural transparenta or transparentene)

1. a banner
2. a transparency (for use with a projector)

Synonyms

• (banner): banner

References

• “transparent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French transparent, from Medieval Latin transparens, from Latin transparere

Adjective

transparent (indefinite singular transparent, definite singular and plural transparente)

1. transparent (quality of a material)

   Synonyms: gjennomsiktig, gjennomsynleg

Noun

transparent m (definite singular transparenten, indefinite plural transparentar, definite plural transparentane)

1. a banner

   Synonym: banner

2. a transparency (for use with a projector)
3. a White Transparent cultivar of apple

Usage notes

• (banner; transparency): In these senses, this noun was considered grammatically neuter prior to a 2018 spelling decision.

References

• “transparent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From French transparent, from Medieval Latin tr?nsp?r?ns, present participle of transpare?, from Latin trans + pare?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tran?spa.r?nt/

Noun

transparent m inan

1. banner

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French transparent, Medieval Latin tr?nsp?r?ns, tr?nsp?r?ntis (“transparent”), present participle of transpare?, from Latin trans + pare?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tran.spa?rent/

Adjective

transparent m or n (feminine singular transparent?, masculine plural transparen?i, feminine and neuter plural transparente)

1. transparent

Declension

Related terms

• transparen??
• transp?rea

See also

• translucid
• str?veziu
• clar
• limpede