See-through

Definition: See-through

See-through

Adjective

1. So thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks".

Synonyms: See-through

Synonyms: cobwebby (adj), diaphanous (adj), filmy (adj), gauzy (adj), gossamer (adj), sheer (adj), transparent (adj), vaporous (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: See-through

Specialty definitions using "see-through": see-through package. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I'm see-through! (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi; writing credit: Cindy Davis Hewitt; Donald H. Hewitt)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	The Human Body: A Fascinating See-Through View of How Bodies Work (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"See-through" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "See-through" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	70	39,981

Language		Translations for "see-through"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		看见通过. (various references)

Danish		Simultantryk. (various references)

Dutch		Doorzichtregister. (various references)

Finnish		Läpikohdistus. (various references)

French		Fenêtre de transparence / de transvision. (various references)

German		Durchsichtspasser. (various references)

Greek		Αλληλοσυμπληρούμενο σχεδίασμα. (various references)

Hungarian		átlátszó (clear, diaphanous, dioptric, dioptrical, gauzy, glassy, hyaline, limpid, pellucid, sheer, translucent, transparant, transparent, tricks easily seen through). (various references)

Italian		Elemento a registro recto-verso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		見え透いた嘘 (a see-through lie), シーアンドエア方式 (CM, commercial message, off-season, sea and air system, seajack, Seasat, seasickness, seaside, seaside resort, seaside school, season, season in, season sale, season stock, seasoning, secret, Secret Service, seek, seeker, see-through look, sequence, sequencer, sequential, sheath, sheath silhouette, Sikh). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		シースルールック (see-through look). (various references)

Korean		보 에 (look-over). (various references)

Pig Latin		ee-throughsay

Portuguese		Registro frente e verso. (various references)

Spanish		motivo de coincidencia. (various references)

Swedish		Genomisiktsbild/See through. (various references)

Thai		ุโปร่งใส. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"See-through" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seethrough. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-h-o-r-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: resought, roughest.
	-3 letters: gesture, heteros, rehouse, shouter, souther, through, tougher, troughs.
	-4 letters: egrets, ergots, erugos, ethers, greets, grouse, grouts, gusher, hereto, heroes, hetero, heughs, horste, houser, hugest, others, oughts, ouster, outers, outsee, reshoe, reshot, retuse, rogues, rouges, roughs, routes, rouths, rugose, rushee, sheugh, sought, souter, stereo, stoure, theres, though, threes, thresh, throes, thrush.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-h-h-o-r-s-t-u"
	+4 letters: slaughterhouse, thoroughnesses.
	+5 letters: slaughterhouses.
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