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How to pronounce “opaque”

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Pronunciation guide for opaque

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of opaque with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: David Puttnam: What happens when the media's priority is profit? 10 minutes, 42 secondsThe ginger beer came in a brown, opaque bottle
Definition summary: Neither reflecting nor emitting light.

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David Puttnam: What happens when the media's priority is profit? 10 minutes, 42 seconds

The ginger beer came in a brown, opaque bottle

[Adjective]
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.
[Noun]
(obsolete, poetic) An area of darkness; a place or region with no light.
Something which is opaque rather than translucent.
[Verb]
(transitive) To make, render (more) opaque.

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