Definition of diaphanous in English:

diaphanous

adjective dʌɪˈaf(ə)nəsdaɪˈæfənəs

(especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent.
（尤指织物）轻的；精致的；半透明的
a diaphanous dress of pale gold
淡金色的精致连衣裙。
Example sentencesExamples
- Illuminated only by the fire, her figure shrouded in diaphanous clothes, she drifted in a nimbus of copper light.
- Light filters through the diaphanous structure, supplementing cool north light for those exhibits that can be exposed to daylight.
- At every shop window she checked out her reflection and her several diaphanous layers of bold, floral-printed skirt, top and shawl.
- I attended his lectures on perception in the 1960s, and am touched to discover that he, too, was taken in as a child by the illusion that cinema curtains are diaphanous.
- Like Robert Irwin, he uses diaphanous fields to capture light, and hovering surfaces to question the fixity of architectural space.
- Creatures have recognizable parts - but in the sea they can be diaphanous clouds of membrane, without eyes, face, stomach, spine, or brain.
- The canvas is almost 5 feet tall, and it shows her in a light turquoise satin and chiffon dress with short diaphanous sleeves.
- He would ‘flit around the backyard trailing a long piece of diaphanous fabric, in the style of the ballets Russes’.
- When I arrived back at his house, Amy was already wearing her seventies outfit - a knee-length dress of diaphanous purple and blue flowers.
- The goddess, clad in a diaphanous robe, overawes the medieval demoiselles who have gathered to admire their reflections in a mountain pool.
- The interior is largely obscured, however, by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating.
- The house, too, is filled with colour and texture: gold, glitter, satin, lace, feathers, and yards of diaphanous fabric.
- In lingerie, this is expressed by delicate shapes in diaphanous fabrics which flutter around the body.
- Even more amazingly, especially in the ravishing performance of Debussy's orchestral seascapes, they bring a chamber music-like transparency to this diaphanous score.
- Conversation ebbs and flows, and from time to time, our host's wife floats through in her diaphanous dress and offers us cheese straws.
- Women dancers were dressed in diaphanous white frocks with little wings at their waist, and were bathed in the mysterious poetic light created by newly developed gas lighting in theatres.
- The gauzy fabric was extremely soft and light, yet somehow not diaphanous.
- A chorus of fairies wafts above the stage, fluttering their diaphanous wings.
- Her taste for wearing loose, diaphanous, white muslin dresses, adopted from Marie Antoinette, gave rise to what became known as the Perdita chemise.
- The first glimpse of what a London Olympics would look like reveals an 80,000-seater stadium with diaphanous roof sections resembling giant insect wings.
Synonyms
sheer, fine, ultra-fine, delicate, light, lightweight, thin, insubstantial, floaty, flimsy, filmy, silken, chiffony, gossamer, gossamery, gossamer-thin, gossamer-like, gauzy, gauzelike, cobwebby, feathery
translucent, transparent, see-through
rare transpicuous, translucid

Origin

Early 17th century: from medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanēs, from dia 'through' + phainein 'to show'.

dialogue from Middle English:
This comes via Old French and Latin from Greek dialogos, from dialegesthai ‘converse with, speak alternately’: the formative elements are dia- ‘through, across’ and legein ‘speak’. The tendency in English is to confine the sense to a conversation between two people, perhaps by associating the prefix dia- with di-. Dia- is also found in diameter (Late Middle English) ‘the measure across’; diaphanous (early 17th century) ‘shows through’; diaphragm (Late Middle English) a barrier that is literally a ‘fence through’, and diaspora (late 19th century) a scattering across.

Definition of diaphanous in US English:

diaphanous

adjectivedīˈafənəsdaɪˈæfənəs

(especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent.
（尤指织物）轻的；精致的；半透明的
a diaphanous dress of pale gold
淡金色的精致连衣裙。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her taste for wearing loose, diaphanous, white muslin dresses, adopted from Marie Antoinette, gave rise to what became known as the Perdita chemise.
- Creatures have recognizable parts - but in the sea they can be diaphanous clouds of membrane, without eyes, face, stomach, spine, or brain.
- The gauzy fabric was extremely soft and light, yet somehow not diaphanous.
- In lingerie, this is expressed by delicate shapes in diaphanous fabrics which flutter around the body.
- The canvas is almost 5 feet tall, and it shows her in a light turquoise satin and chiffon dress with short diaphanous sleeves.
- The house, too, is filled with colour and texture: gold, glitter, satin, lace, feathers, and yards of diaphanous fabric.
- Conversation ebbs and flows, and from time to time, our host's wife floats through in her diaphanous dress and offers us cheese straws.
- Even more amazingly, especially in the ravishing performance of Debussy's orchestral seascapes, they bring a chamber music-like transparency to this diaphanous score.
- Light filters through the diaphanous structure, supplementing cool north light for those exhibits that can be exposed to daylight.
- Like Robert Irwin, he uses diaphanous fields to capture light, and hovering surfaces to question the fixity of architectural space.
- A chorus of fairies wafts above the stage, fluttering their diaphanous wings.
- Illuminated only by the fire, her figure shrouded in diaphanous clothes, she drifted in a nimbus of copper light.
- The interior is largely obscured, however, by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating.
- The goddess, clad in a diaphanous robe, overawes the medieval demoiselles who have gathered to admire their reflections in a mountain pool.
- The first glimpse of what a London Olympics would look like reveals an 80,000-seater stadium with diaphanous roof sections resembling giant insect wings.
- At every shop window she checked out her reflection and her several diaphanous layers of bold, floral-printed skirt, top and shawl.
- I attended his lectures on perception in the 1960s, and am touched to discover that he, too, was taken in as a child by the illusion that cinema curtains are diaphanous.
- When I arrived back at his house, Amy was already wearing her seventies outfit - a knee-length dress of diaphanous purple and blue flowers.
- Women dancers were dressed in diaphanous white frocks with little wings at their waist, and were bathed in the mysterious poetic light created by newly developed gas lighting in theatres.
- He would ‘flit around the backyard trailing a long piece of diaphanous fabric, in the style of the ballets Russes’.
Synonyms
sheer, fine, ultra-fine, delicate, light, lightweight, thin, insubstantial, floaty, flimsy, filmy, silken, chiffony, gossamer, gossamery, gossamer-thin, gossamer-like, gauzy, gauzelike, cobwebby, feathery

Origin

Early 17th century: from medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanēs, from dia ‘through’ + phainein ‘to show’.

单词	diaphanous
释义	Definition of diaphanous in English: diaphanous adjective dʌɪˈaf(ə)nəsdaɪˈæfənəs (especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent. （尤指织物）轻的；精致的；半透明的 a diaphanous dress of pale gold 淡金色的精致连衣裙。 Example sentencesExamples Illuminated only by the fire, her figure shrouded in diaphanous clothes, she drifted in a nimbus of copper light. Light filters through the diaphanous structure, supplementing cool north light for those exhibits that can be exposed to daylight. At every shop window she checked out her reflection and her several diaphanous layers of bold, floral-printed skirt, top and shawl. I attended his lectures on perception in the 1960s, and am touched to discover that he, too, was taken in as a child by the illusion that cinema curtains are diaphanous. Like Robert Irwin, he uses diaphanous fields to capture light, and hovering surfaces to question the fixity of architectural space. Creatures have recognizable parts - but in the sea they can be diaphanous clouds of membrane, without eyes, face, stomach, spine, or brain. The canvas is almost 5 feet tall, and it shows her in a light turquoise satin and chiffon dress with short diaphanous sleeves. He would ‘flit around the backyard trailing a long piece of diaphanous fabric, in the style of the ballets Russes’. When I arrived back at his house, Amy was already wearing her seventies outfit - a knee-length dress of diaphanous purple and blue flowers. The goddess, clad in a diaphanous robe, overawes the medieval demoiselles who have gathered to admire their reflections in a mountain pool. The interior is largely obscured, however, by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating. The house, too, is filled with colour and texture: gold, glitter, satin, lace, feathers, and yards of diaphanous fabric. In lingerie, this is expressed by delicate shapes in diaphanous fabrics which flutter around the body. Even more amazingly, especially in the ravishing performance of Debussy's orchestral seascapes, they bring a chamber music-like transparency to this diaphanous score. Conversation ebbs and flows, and from time to time, our host's wife floats through in her diaphanous dress and offers us cheese straws. Women dancers were dressed in diaphanous white frocks with little wings at their waist, and were bathed in the mysterious poetic light created by newly developed gas lighting in theatres. The gauzy fabric was extremely soft and light, yet somehow not diaphanous. A chorus of fairies wafts above the stage, fluttering their diaphanous wings. Her taste for wearing loose, diaphanous, white muslin dresses, adopted from Marie Antoinette, gave rise to what became known as the Perdita chemise. The first glimpse of what a London Olympics would look like reveals an 80,000-seater stadium with diaphanous roof sections resembling giant insect wings. Synonyms sheer, fine, ultra-fine, delicate, light, lightweight, thin, insubstantial, floaty, flimsy, filmy, silken, chiffony, gossamer, gossamery, gossamer-thin, gossamer-like, gauzy, gauzelike, cobwebby, feathery translucent, transparent, see-through rare transpicuous, translucid Origin Early 17th century: from medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanēs, from dia 'through' + phainein 'to show'. dialogue from Middle English: This comes via Old French and Latin from Greek dialogos, from dialegesthai ‘converse with, speak alternately’: the formative elements are dia- ‘through, across’ and legein ‘speak’. The tendency in English is to confine the sense to a conversation between two people, perhaps by associating the prefix dia- with di-. Dia- is also found in diameter (Late Middle English) ‘the measure across’; diaphanous (early 17th century) ‘shows through’; diaphragm (Late Middle English) a barrier that is literally a ‘fence through’, and diaspora (late 19th century) a scattering across. Definition of diaphanous in US English: diaphanous adjectivedīˈafənəsdaɪˈæfənəs (especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent. （尤指织物）轻的；精致的；半透明的 a diaphanous dress of pale gold 淡金色的精致连衣裙。 Example sentencesExamples Her taste for wearing loose, diaphanous, white muslin dresses, adopted from Marie Antoinette, gave rise to what became known as the Perdita chemise. Creatures have recognizable parts - but in the sea they can be diaphanous clouds of membrane, without eyes, face, stomach, spine, or brain. The gauzy fabric was extremely soft and light, yet somehow not diaphanous. In lingerie, this is expressed by delicate shapes in diaphanous fabrics which flutter around the body. The canvas is almost 5 feet tall, and it shows her in a light turquoise satin and chiffon dress with short diaphanous sleeves. The house, too, is filled with colour and texture: gold, glitter, satin, lace, feathers, and yards of diaphanous fabric. Conversation ebbs and flows, and from time to time, our host's wife floats through in her diaphanous dress and offers us cheese straws. Even more amazingly, especially in the ravishing performance of Debussy's orchestral seascapes, they bring a chamber music-like transparency to this diaphanous score. Light filters through the diaphanous structure, supplementing cool north light for those exhibits that can be exposed to daylight. Like Robert Irwin, he uses diaphanous fields to capture light, and hovering surfaces to question the fixity of architectural space. A chorus of fairies wafts above the stage, fluttering their diaphanous wings. Illuminated only by the fire, her figure shrouded in diaphanous clothes, she drifted in a nimbus of copper light. The interior is largely obscured, however, by an upside-down stair, magically suspended from the first floor and contained by a diaphanous veil of fine steel grating. The goddess, clad in a diaphanous robe, overawes the medieval demoiselles who have gathered to admire their reflections in a mountain pool. The first glimpse of what a London Olympics would look like reveals an 80,000-seater stadium with diaphanous roof sections resembling giant insect wings. At every shop window she checked out her reflection and her several diaphanous layers of bold, floral-printed skirt, top and shawl. I attended his lectures on perception in the 1960s, and am touched to discover that he, too, was taken in as a child by the illusion that cinema curtains are diaphanous. When I arrived back at his house, Amy was already wearing her seventies outfit - a knee-length dress of diaphanous purple and blue flowers. Women dancers were dressed in diaphanous white frocks with little wings at their waist, and were bathed in the mysterious poetic light created by newly developed gas lighting in theatres. He would ‘flit around the backyard trailing a long piece of diaphanous fabric, in the style of the ballets Russes’. Synonyms sheer, fine, ultra-fine, delicate, light, lightweight, thin, insubstantial, floaty, flimsy, filmy, silken, chiffony, gossamer, gossamery, gossamer-thin, gossamer-like, gauzy, gauzelike, cobwebby, feathery Origin Early 17th century: from medieval Latin diaphanus, from Greek diaphanēs, from dia ‘through’ + phainein ‘to show’.
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