Milky vs Opaque - What's the difference?
milky | opaque |
Resembling milk in color or consistency.
* Alexander Pope
* Arbuthnot
(color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
(colloquial) Cowardly.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Yielding milk.
* Roscommon
Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
(figuratively) Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of
(figuratively) Obtuse, stupid.
(computing) Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
(obsolete, poetic) An area of darkness; a place or region with no light.
* 1745 , Edward Young, Night-Thoughts , I:
Something which is opaque rather than translucent.
To make, render (more) opaque.
As adjectives the difference between milky and opaque
is that milky is resembling milk in color or consistency while opaque is neither reflecting nor emitting light.As a noun opaque is
an area of darkness; a place or region with no light.As a verb opaque is
to make, render (more) opaque.milky
English
Adjective
(er)- pails high foaming with a milky flood
- milky juice
- Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
- milky mothers
opaque
English
(wikipedia opaque)Alternative forms
* opakeAdjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* (physically) see-through, translucent, transparent * (figuratively) clear, obvious, bright, brilliantUsage notes
* The comparative opaquer and superlative opaquest, though formed following valid rules for English, are much less common than more opaque' and ' most opaque and seem to occur more frequently in poetry.Derived terms
* opaquely * opaqueness * radiopaqueNoun
(en noun)- Through this opaque of Nature and of Soul, / This double night, transmit one pitying ray, / To lighten, and to cheer.