semiopaque

Each drawing, a veritable webbing of wispy white lines that merge, plait, and even throb across their surfaces of coal-black paper, offers a new and semiopaque supernatural vision of worlds -- of creatures, of material, of flora -- that only our imaginations can rightly access.

ArtScene: Catch Them Before They Close: Top Current Exhibitions in the Northwest 2010

It is made of more than a thousand semiopaque windows set into an elegant steel grid.

The Light of Christ Abounds in Oakland's New Cathedral 2009

Most Chinese buildings are aggressively alien: concrete structures with brilliant blue, semiopaque windows.

Shards Of A Nation 2008

Merriam-Webster defines “scumble” as partly “to make as color or a painting less brilliant by covering with a thin coat of opaque or semiopaque color.”

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

Shifters are very hard to read, their brains are all snarly and semiopaque, but I would've picked up on that.

All Together Dead Harris, Charlaine 2007

Some have only tiny banks of windows near the top, the glass semiopaque, giving a hint of motion and light but not actually letting you see wht's going on.

jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2006

For several hours, on the far side of a semiopaque security curtain that had been erected in the main spacedock hangar, a team of stevedores had been off-loading from the Enterprise mangled piles of metal, and shipping containers packed tight with small debris.

Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

For several hours, on the far side of a semiopaque security curtain that had been erected in the main spacedock hangar, a team of stevedores had been off-loading from the Enterprise mangled piles of metal, and shipping containers packed tight with small debris.

Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005

Lit from within and turned semiopaque, it might be a twin to the object he now found himself gazing at in wonderment.

The Dig Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1995

However, beautiful effects can be obtained under opaque or semiopaque glazes.

10. Decoration 1993