See crystal clear on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2019 September 23, Greta Thunberg, speech at the United Nations",
"text": "For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight."
}
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"Completely clear (in various senses).",
"Without ambiguity or doubt; completely understood."
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"(idiomatic, simile) Completely clear (in various senses).",
"Without ambiguity or doubt; completely understood."
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"word": "clear as crystal"
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{
"text": "The picture on this TV is crystal clear – you can see every grain of sand!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2007, David Rudd Cycleback, Judging the Authenticity of Photographs: The Basics for Collectors, Cycleback.com, →ISBN, page 111:",
"text": "The key is that only the original negative can produce the crystal clearest photographic image.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Completely clear (in various senses).",
"Visually clear, a sharp image, of high acuity."
],
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"clear",
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"visually"
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"(idiomatic, simile) Completely clear (in various senses).",
"Visually clear, a sharp image, of high acuity."
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"word": "clear as crystal"
}
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"ref": "1893, Charles F[orbes] Warner, editor, Picturesque Berkshire, part I (North), Northampton, Mass.: Picturesque Publishing Company; Springfield, Mass.: The W. F. Adams Company, page 84:",
"text": "On the lowest level are broad meadow lands, through which wanders a stream of the most crystal clear water imaginable.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 100:",
"text": "Near by, where the crystal clear River Llugwy is crossed by a bridge, stands a small and ancient church built of massive, irregular boulders.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017 October 4, “Guy Crabb Plumbing & Heating”, in View from Weymouth, Weymouth, page 25:",
"text": "It is these beliefs that set Clearview Stoves apart and set their company on a quest to design and build a stove that would set new standards and quite simply be the best. Their quest led to a stove with traditional styling, that is simple to use and highly efficient with a wonderful view of the flames behind crystal clear glass.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Steven Baker, chapter 16, in Colour Sergeant Chesney V.C., Kibworth, Leics.: The Book Guild Ltd, →ISBN, page 132:",
"text": "Jimmy and Ravi put together fine silver cutlery, crystal clear glasses and oriental decorated crockery.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Completely clear (in various senses).",
"Very translucent or transparent."
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"ref": "1882 May 1, C[harles] Piazzi Smyth, Madeira Meteorologic: Being a Paper on the Above Subject Read Before the Royal Society, Edinburgh, on 1st of May 1882, Edinburgh: David Douglas, pages 31–32:",
"text": "Whence it comes that even in the crystal clearest weather Madeira’s sunshine spectrum is inordinately full of water-vapour stopped lines, the sun’s direct rays, though to general observation luminous enough, are signally deprived of their proper scorching heat, and the temperature range of the climate is immensely reduced for both the day and the year; […]",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1948, Roger Coty Peterson, Birds Over America, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 309:",
"text": "Jones Beach Pond on Long Island, so close to New York that the tops of the Empire State and the Chrysler Building can be seen on the horizon on crystal clear days, is one of the best shore-bird resorts I know.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1965, Russ Leadabrand, A Guidebook to the Sunset Ranges of Southern California: […], Los Angeles, Calif.: The Ward Ritchie Press, →LCCN, page 127:",
"text": "On crystal clear days, such as those during or just following a Santa Ana windstorm, the Salton Sea can be spotted from this area.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"Having no clouds."
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"Having no clouds."
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"ref": "1999 July 30, “D’Imperio’s”, in Weekend Mag (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Pittsburgh, Pa., page 33:",
"text": "There is still space available for the STARFIRE BAND performance featuring the crystal clearest, cleanest Pittsburgh Born and Bred Alto Vocals of the sensational Miss Judi Figel in our Summer Street Dance and Al Fresco Dining (inside if rain) series Music & Dancing 7-11 P.M",
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},
{
"ref": "2004 March 8, Cameron J. Woods, “‘Bloody lovely’ music: New band worth a little money”, in The Daily Collegian, volume CXIV, number 1, Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Amherst, page 4, column 2:",
"text": "With the slightly nasal, melodic whine of Wooten’s crystal clear vocals this song has a catchy sound to it that guarantees that it has potential to be an ear-bug.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2012, 2012 Engineering & Scientific Catalogue, Jaycar, page 218:",
"text": "A truly powerful and versatile unit, crystal clear music is played through a pair of stereo speakers and has RCA line outputs for amplifier or Hi-Fi system integration.",
"type": "quote"
}
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{
"word": "plain as day"
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{
"word": "obvious"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "淺顯易懂"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiǎnxiǎnyìdǒng",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "浅显易懂"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "顯而易見"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiǎn'éryìjiàn",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "显而易见"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "nad slunce jasný"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "kristallinkirkas"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "glasklar"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "kristálytiszta"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "chiarissimo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "chiaro e limpido"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "chiaro come il sole"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "cristallino"
},
{
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "cetha wela-wela"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "krystallklar"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "krystallklar"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "krystallklår"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kristálʹno jásnyj",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "криста́льно я́сный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "con claridad meridiana"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "meridiano"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "completely clear and understood",
"word": "glasklar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qīngchè",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "清澈"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "kristallinkirkas"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "clair comme de l’eau de roche"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "glasklar"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "kristálytiszta"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "chiarissimo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "cristallino"
},
{
"alt": "すみきった",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sumikitta",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "澄み切った"
},
{
"code": "jv",
"lang": "Javanese",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "cetha wela-wela"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "krystallklar"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "krystallklar"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "krystallklår"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kristálʹno čístyj",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "криста́льно чи́стый"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "cristalino"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "visually clear",
"word": "kristallklar"
}
],
"word": "crystal clear"
}
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