Glittering vs Transparent - What's the difference?
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Brightly sparkling.
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*:It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
(lb) Valuable, desirable.
*1994 , (Nelson Mandela), (Long Walk to Freedom) , Abacus 2010, p.85:
*:Gaur was an example of a man without a BA who seemed infinitely better educated than the fellows who left Fort Hare with glittering degrees.
The appearance of something that glitters.
* (John Locke)
(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.
* 1897, , chapter 19,
(of a system or organization) Open]], public; having the property that theories and practices are publicly visible, thereby [[reduce, reducing the chance of corruption.
Obvious; readily apparent; easy to see or understand.
Glittering is a related term of transparent.
As nouns the difference between glittering and transparent
is that glittering is the appearance of something that glitters while transparent is banner.As a verb glittering
is .As an adjective glittering
is brightly sparkling.glittering
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(en adjective)Synonyms
* aglitterNoun
(en noun)- Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings , truth from appearances.
transparent
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(wikipedia transparent)Adjective
(en adjective)- The waters of the lake were transparent until the factory dumped wastes there.
- "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."
- His reasons for the decision were transparent .
