Meaning of "opaque" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OPAQUE

From Latin opācus shady.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF OPAQUE

opaque  [əʊˈpeɪk]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OPAQUE

Opaque is a verb and can also act as a noun and an adjective.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb opaque in English.

WHAT DOES OPAQUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Opacity

Opacity may refer to: ▪ Opacity, the degree to which light is not allowed to travel through ▪ Opaque context, a term to describe the linguistic context of co-referential terms ▪ Phonological opacity, a term in phonology ▪ Opaque travel inventory, the market of selling unsold travel inventory at a discounted price...

Definition of opaque in the English dictionary

The first definition of opaque in the dictionary is not transmitting light; not transparent or translucent. Other definition of opaque is not reflecting light; lacking lustre or shine; dull. Opaque is also not transmitting radiant energy, such as electromagnetic or corpuscular radiation, or sound.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OPAQUE

PRESENT

Present

I opaque

you opaque

he/she/it opaques

we opaque

you opaque

they opaque

Present continuous

I am opaquing

you are opaquing

he/she/it is opaquing

we are opaquing

you are opaquing

they are opaquing

Present perfect

I have opaqued

you have opaqued

he/she/it has opaqued

we have opaqued

you have opaqued

they have opaqued

Present perfect continuous

I have been opaquing

you have been opaquing

he/she/it has been opaquing

we have been opaquing

you have been opaquing

they have been opaquing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I opaqued

you opaqued

he/she/it opaqued

we opaqued

you opaqued

they opaqued

Past continuous

I was opaquing

you were opaquing

he/she/it was opaquing

we were opaquing

you were opaquing

they were opaquing

Past perfect

I had opaqued

you had opaqued

he/she/it had opaqued

we had opaqued

you had opaqued

they had opaqued

Past perfect continuous

I had been opaquing

you had been opaquing

he/she/it had been opaquing

we had been opaquing

you had been opaquing

they had been opaquing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will opaque

you will opaque

he/she/it will opaque

we will opaque

you will opaque

they will opaque

Future continuous

I will be opaquing

you will be opaquing

he/she/it will be opaquing

we will be opaquing

you will be opaquing

they will be opaquing

Future perfect

I will have opaqued

you will have opaqued

he/she/it will have opaqued

we will have opaqued

you will have opaqued

they will have opaqued

Future perfect continuous

I will have been opaquing

you will have been opaquing

he/she/it will have been opaquing

we will have been opaquing

you will have been opaquing

they will have been opaquing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would opaque

you would opaque

he/she/it would opaque

we would opaque

you would opaque

they would opaque

Conditional continuous

I would be opaquing

you would be opaquing

he/she/it would be opaquing

we would be opaquing

you would be opaquing

they would be opaquing

Conditional perfect

I would have opaque

you would have opaque

he/she/it would have opaque

we would have opaque

you would have opaque

they would have opaque

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been opaquing

you would have been opaquing

he/she/it would have been opaquing

we would have been opaquing

you would have been opaquing

they would have been opaquing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you opaque
we let´s opaque
you opaque

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to opaque

Past participle

opaqued

Present Participle

opaquing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «OPAQUE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «opaque» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of opaque

abstruse · baffling · cloudy · cryptic · difficult · dim · dull · enigmatic · filmy · hazy · impenetrable · incomprehensible · lustreless · muddied · muddy · murky · obscure · perplexing · puzzling · turbid · unclear · unfathomable · unintelligible

TRANSLATION OF OPAQUE

Find out the translation of opaque to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of opaque from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «opaque» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 不透明的
• Translator English - Spanish: opaco
• English: opaque
• Translator English - Hindi: अपारदर्शी
• Translator English - Arabic: مبهمة
• Translator English - Russian: непрозрачный
• Translator English - Portuguese: opaco
• Translator English - Bengali: opalized
• Translator English - French: opaque
• Translator English - Malay: Opalized
• Translator English - German: undurchsichtig
• Translator English - Japanese: 不透明な
• Translator English - Korean: 불투명한
• Translator English - Javanese: Opalized
• Translator English - Vietnamese: đục
• Translator English - Tamil: opalized
• Translator English - Marathi: उघडलेले
• Translator English - Turkish: opalized
• Translator English - Italian: opaco
• Translator English - Polish: nieprzezroczyste
• Translator English - Ukrainian: непрозорий
• Translator English - Romanian: opac
• Translator English - Greek: αδιαφανές
• Translator English - Afrikaans: ondeursigtig
• Translator English - Swedish: ogenomskinlig
• Translator English - Norwegian: ugjennomsiktig

8 QUOTES WITH «OPAQUE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word opaque.

1

Jim Bishop

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

2

Breyten Breytenbach

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

3

Noah Feldman

Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.

4

Valeria Golino

I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.

5

Brendan I. Koerner

Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.

6

Sally Phillips

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

7

Roberta Smith

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

8

Gary Wolf

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OPAQUE»

Discover the use of opaque in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to opaque and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Opaque Nuclear Proliferation: Methodological and Policy ...

This examination of nuclear arms control addresses the question of what kind of posture do second generation nuclear weapons states adopt in a world in which the presumption of non-proliferation is accepted?

Benjamin Frankel, 1991

Opaque Colour

This book is one of the series of 'Methods & Techniques' - published by Jyotsna Prakashan.

Milind Mulick, 2006

Transparent and Opaque

Provides a simple explanation of the differences between transparent and opaque materials, including examples of their uses in everyday life.

Angela Royston, 2008

Opaque Words: Arabic Importations at the Limits of Translation

The ways these texts engage representations of the Arab/Muslim reveal much about the cultures within which they operate.

Mazen Naous, 2007

Opaque Visions of the Self: The Possible Selves of African ...

This empirical review will illustrate that when an individual's academic possible selves are skewed, negative, or constantly focused on the feared self, educational achievement will be hard to foster.

Adrienne M. Duke, 2008

The ability of banks to lend to informationally opaque small ...

Bank distress does not appear to affect small business lending, although even small firms may react to bank distress by borrowing from multiple banks.

Allen N. Berger, Leora Klapper, Gregory F. Udell, 2001

The Linguistic Description of Opaque Contexts (RLE ...

These are, of course, opposite sides of the same coin, for it is some aspect of the opaque reading of these sentences, an aspect that it does not share with the transparent reading, that is responsible for the fact that substitutivity is invalid.

Janet Dean Fodor, 2014

The Colours of Opaque Minerals

Colour is the most obvious property that the ore microscopist uses in the identification of opaque minerals. This book sets out to answer the question: Why do particular opaque minerals have colours we see?

Andrew Peckett, R. Phillips (B. Sc.), Norman Fordyce McKerron Henry, 1992

Opaque watercolor

Instruction in the use of gouache, tempera, and other types of watercolor includes tips on equipment, composition, color, and painting techniques

Wallace Edmund Turner, 1980

Rousseau's Theory of Human Association: Transparent and ...

This book develops a theory of association and uses it to elucidate, assess and extend Rousseau's views about human nature, civil society, the market economy and the republican state.

Greg Hill, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OPAQUE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term opaque is used in the context of the following news items.

The exceedingly opaque Transport for London

Yet design of a preferred option to remove the gyratory and improve our public realm has taken place behind opaque closed doors. «Kings Cross Environment, Jul 15»

Innovation the key to made.com's success

“We streamlined a very complex and opaque model and turned it into something direct”. Ms Macintosh knows about being a winner. Raised in ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

Ted Cruz Exploits Americans Trapped In Iran To Score Political …

All three are charged with various breaches of state security, and securing their freedom will require working through Iran's opaque judicial ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»

Nanoparticles: Small Size, Big Health Problems?

Titanium dioxide, the most common nanoparticle in food, helps make candy such as gummy bears opaque, and it enhances colors. Most often ... «Kern Golden Empire, Jul 15»

Stephen Harper's courts: How the judiciary has been remade

Sean Fine goes inside the opaque world of judicial appointments to reveal the making of a Conservative legacy. The judge looked down at the ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»

Smoked Whole Fish with Lemon Oil Wet Rub and Drizzle recipe

The center should be just opaque and even slightly translucent. The flesh shouldn't "flake" (a sign it's overcooked) but should gently resist the ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»

An accidental discovery 50 years ago changed how we see the …

When the universe was young, it was permeated by extremely hot hydrogen plasma and was opaque to electromagnetic radiation. The Big ... «ExtremeTech, Jul 15»

Doctor Scorecards: The Wrong Answer To The Right Question

... opaque health care system that offers no support in evaluating physicians and hospitals to consumers (or even other medical professionals). «Forbes, Jul 15»

McDonnell asks entire appeals court to reverse ruling that upholds …

“The panel's decision establishes an unprecedented and opaque line between lawful politics and federal felonies, while eliminating the basic ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»

Spilling the beans

But the past remains opaque. It is likely that most drugs in use today have a few skeletons in their cupboards, in the form of unpublished trials, ... «The Economist, Jul 15»