What's the difference between opaque and translucent?
Opaque
Definition:
(a.) Impervious to the rays of light; not transparent; as, an opaque substance.
(a.) Obscure; not clear; unintelligible.
(n.) That which is opaque; opacity.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
(2) It should also be realised that, in a very few hospitals, swabs which do not have an opaque marker may occasionally be used in theatre.
(3) The colors of mixtures of dental opaque porcelains and modifiers were measured with use of the CIE L*a*b* uniform color space.
(4) Type II pigment is extremely electron-opaque after staining with heavy metals to the extent that they appear practically amorphous.
(5) In conclusion, the use of metoclopramide in the postoperative period did not result in a quicker return of propulsive motility in the right or left colon as judged by the radio-opaque markers and serial abdominal radiographs.
(6) At the former site the membrane overlying the bud showed an electron opaque thickening which imparted to the mature particle an asymmetrical appearance.
(7) At that time, the universe underwent a crucial change: it went from being opaque to transparent.
(8) Our data confirm the poorer short-term orientation performance of jaundiced infants treated with phototherapy but do not indicate that covering the eyes with an opaque screen improves behavioral organization.
(9) All patients had at least one laparotomy, at which time a biopsy was obtained, radio-opaque clips were placed to define the extent of the gross tumor, and usually some form of bypass procedure was performed.
(10) Two types are present, a crystalline (clear) form and a white, opaque form with pigmentation resulting from a diene rubber.
(11) In two of these cases, pathologic findings included opaque ciliary body cysts, a ciliochoroidal effusion, retinal microaneurysms and hemorrhages, and detachment of both the sensory retina and the retinal pigment epithelium.
(12) The WF-1 are originally arranged around the WF-2, as small electron opaque granules making a dark ring, to move towards the periphery of the macrogamete body with maturation.
(13) Five fish with lateral lines cut at the opercula were unable to school when wearing opaque eye covers.
(14) A combined morphological, autoradiographic, and cytochemical study at the electron microscope level has been directed towards the formation of electron-opaque granules of cultured macrophages.
(15) The intranuclear spindle of yeast has an electron-opaque body at each pole.
(16) On lecithin agar, interpretation was easier, phospholipase A was detectable, and opaque zones were visible 1 or 2 days earlier than on egg yolk agar.
(17) New light-curable adhesive opaque resins were prepared using 4-methacryloxyethyl trimellitate anhydride (4-META), triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA), di (methacryloxyethyl) trimethylhexamethylene diurethane (UDMA) and titanium dioxide.
(18) In particular, most prototrophic strains obtained from patients with localized infection had proteins I with molecular weights varying from 35,000 to 38,000 daltons and gave predominantly opaque colonies.
(19) Resulting specimens yield an excellent view of the skeletal system and the injected vascular system without obstruction by opaque tissues or disruption by physical removal of connective tissue.
(20) Follicles greater than or equal to 5 mm in diameter were classified as clear (n=68) or opaque (n=72) based on their surface appearance.
Translucent
Definition:
(a.) Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.
(a.) Transparent; clear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inexperienced physicians are often unable to immediately identify these translucencies as air enclosures in the intracranial cavity.
(2) An area of translucence around a dense zone, appearing more clearly with traction, is suspicious.
(3) The pearly skin of these subjects becomes more translucent and the detail extra-perfect.
(4) It was concluded that the CPC coating is superior to the PPG coating since no cracking surface develops, it is translucent, and it provides a more effective athrombogenic surface.
(5) The performance capabilities of the instruments were tested on various shades of opaque and translucent dental porcelain surfaces.
(6) With the translucent occluder, retest threshold variability was 18.8% less and sensitivity was increased by 0.7 dB.
(7) Ifind it hard to get excited about slimy, translucent, near‑flavourless egg whites, but I can't bear to throw them away.
(8) Because of its low filler particle percentage, microfilled composite resins--traditionally recommended for anterior restorations--are extremely translucent.
(9) The cell bodies were surrounded by a basal lamina, while the cytoplasmic extensions investing the nerve endings were surrounded by an envelope consisting of alternating electron dense and electron translucent layers containing material that stained with PAS and Alcian Blue.
(10) Formation of neointima and transformation of mesenchymal cells into the endothelial ones are studied using scanning and translucent electron microscopy and autoradiography.
(11) The parent conidium and later the proximal germ tube showed progressive vacuolation and the cytoplasm became largely occupied by electron-translucent material.
(12) To examine the significance of fetal nuchal translucency at 10-14 weeks' gestation in the prediction of abnormal fetal karyotype.
(13) Clinically, cytomegalovirus retinitis is characterized by lesions, usually in the posterior pole, that take the form of fluffy white infiltrates with irregular, translucent, granular appearing margins.
(14) Through dexterous operation of the Shinkai6500's mechanical arms by pilot Sasaki-san, we quickly began collecting samples of rocks, the hot fluids from the vents, and the creatures thriving around them: speckled anemones with almost-translucent tentacles, and the orange-tinted shrimp scurrying among them.
(15) In contrast, the flat-mound and translucent-mound mutants, which aggregate normally, produced very few spores.
(16) The mature resting sporangium (RS) wall of Coelomomyces dodgei (Chytridiomycetes; Blastocladiales) consists of three principal layers: (I) an outer pigmented layer (1.8-2.2 microns) that contains polysaccharide, (II) a middle electron translucent layer (1.3-1.6 microns) comparatively free of polysaccharide, and (III) an inner layer (125 nm) rich in polysaccharide that surrounds the meiospores.
(17) Zone I consisted of osteoblasts adjacent to the bone surface and a supraosteoblast layer of smaller, compact cells, Zone II was a relatively translucent zone with numerous capillaries and Zone III consisted of cells intermingled with collagen fibrils.
(18) Within these small translucent colonies, mutational events occur which give rise to the normal resistant type colonies.
(19) Films are presented for tracking on a translucent screen after reflection from a galvanometer driven mirror.
(20) The plaques were translucent to opaque and varied in size and shape, from multiple isolated islands to bizarre patterns involving more than half the corneal surface.