VIRTUALLY


Meaning of VIRTUALLY in English

adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

almost/virtually certain

It is almost certain that she will be given a prison sentence.

Prices are virtually certain to increase.

almost/virtually unanimous

The decision to appoint Matt was almost unanimous.

almost/virtually/practically etc nonexistent

On a Sunday morning traffic was almost nonexistent.

virtually nothing

She had eaten virtually nothing at supper.

virtually/almost/practically useless

These flaws could make the software virtually useless in a business environment.

virtually/fairly/largely meaningless

virtually/practically impossible (= almost impossible )

Getting tickets for the concert is practically impossible.

virtually/practically/almost etc invisible

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

certain

It also explains why it is virtually certain that Britain's main trunk lines will rely on optical fibre.

We are virtually certain that this incident was a deliberate provocation.

A healthy competition for places is never a bad thing and only Campbell, Scholes and Beckham are virtually certain of selection.

The Gaylord family controls about 60 percent of the voting stock, so approval is virtually certain .

A U.S. appeal of the decision is virtually certain and would take months.

A senior Democratic aide said it was virtually certain that Democrats would push for censure.

The Congress is virtually certain to declare itself independent of the Soviet Party.

After a weekend in New York, Maddux said he was virtually certain of signing a five-year deal with the Yankees.

complete

Although milling ceased around four decades ago, the mill machinery both externally and internally is still virtually complete .

The state earlier this month gave Brown virtually complete control over Treasure Island.

At such times his domination of the Company was virtually complete .

At least one of the Hurricanes is virtually complete and looks a viable project to rebuild to flying condition.

Recent renovation work has shown that beneath these modifications the fourth-century church is virtually complete .

Clearly a public service campaign must, within reason, aim for virtually complete coverage.

identical

It was just that they were all in profile and virtually identical .

Its atomic properties turned out to be virtually identical with the Murmansk uranium.

Unless Labour develops its policies the next election will be a battle between two parties with virtually identical economic policies.

The prices of forward exchange and futures contract are virtually identical once contracts have same maturity dates. 8.

However for AEs the figures were virtually identical with those of standard entrants. 2% more SEs gained good degrees than NSEs.

These magazines regularly feature comparative photos of men in outfits that look virtually identical .

The story of the Enewetak islanders is virtually identical .

On Northumbrian moors the red grouse and the black grouse live in virtually identical habitats.

impossible

In reality, it was virtually impossible for the supporters of democracy to rally.

If by making corruption virtually impossible we also make quality performance virtually impossible, have we done a good thing?

It is virtually impossible to do justice to a book of this size in such a short review.

It was virtually impossible to live in the United States in the late 1960s without being exposed to the growing antiwar movement.

The position of the piece of gravel would have made it virtually impossible for the fish to dislodge it.

In fact, without some anxiety it would be virtually impossible to be productive.

But fish and chips are, I would suggest, virtually impossible to sling.

Such appeals were virtually impossible before an order in April 1996 by now-Chief of Naval Operations Adm.

indistinguishable

Others are virtually indistinguishable from the flowers with which they associate - so much so that smaller insects keep settling on them.

In our headlong pursuit to acquire wealth and worldly pleasures, Christians have become virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world.

A material so light as to be virtually indistinguishable from natural slate.

Huckleberries are virtually indistinguishable from wild blueberries.

Results obtained for the wild-type and for the mutant protein are virtually indistinguishable .

The clinical features are virtually indistinguishable from Stuttering.

Great tracts of the Middle Kingdom will be virtually indistinguishable from the tiny entrepreneurial enclave.

invisible

Thereafter their history remains virtually invisible for a hundred million years.

They are attached to the speaker's clothing and are virtually invisible on shot.

The ring is virtually invisible around the central cornea which is the critical area for clear vision.

Soon they may be virtually invisible except for a discreet beacon.

Because of its thin design and attractive white finish it's virtually invisible when the radiator is in place.

It will be quiet, manoeuvrable, virtually invisible to radar and capable of supersonic flight without the use of afterburners.

unchanged

Although overall revenues here were up 11% to £172.3m, after adjustment for exchange rates, they remained virtually unchanged .

Designs resulting largely from trial and error remained virtually unchanged over 200 years.

The duration of cohabitation, however, has remained virtually unchanged .

The pattern of ditched fields is virtually unchanged from that time.

Immediately afterwards, the market price of the remaining debt nearly doubled, leaving the total value virtually unchanged .

Operating ratio at the half year virtually unchanged at 112.25%.

Although sales in its chemicals division fell, productivity improvements and the pound's devaluation enabled profits to remain virtually unchanged .

The number of places in local authority and voluntary homes remained virtually unchanged .

unknown

Union membership is virtually unknown except for isolated technicians like film projection people.

Even more than most of his predecessors, Gorbachev was virtually unknown in the West when he came to power.

As an accurate observer of, and extensive traveller in, a virtually unknown land he was unrivalled.

Atheism is virtually unknown in pagan and rural societies, but this new rationalism will usher it into the modern world.

He was virtually unknown in the United States.

Materialism has until recently been virtually unknown in Confucian societies.

Crime and drugs are virtually unknown .

useless

The energy, once transferred to the bath is in the form of low grade heat and therefore virtually useless .

These programs provide facilities ranging from the essential to the virtually useless depending on your point of view.

■ VERB

become

Unless these exist in some measure it becomes virtually impossible to continue any social activity.

In our headlong pursuit to acquire wealth and worldly pleasures, Christians have become virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world.

Just when it is vital to get policy on sterling right, the task has become virtually impossible.

Complex machines Even within the first book, the two men become virtually inseparable.

Only in this century has politics become virtually confined to, and channeled through, the media.

By the 1730s this construction had been superseded by a knuckle joint at the top and the gate-leg had become virtually obsolete.

When one thinks about consciousness in this way, the impression of purposiveness in evolution becomes virtually overwhelming.

disappear

He observed how institutional forms of control by society had virtually disappeared .

Mulchers cut and recut the grass clippings so that they virtually disappear within the lawn.

Relief-line, and indeed any use of undiluted black, virtually disappears .

In several cases, a species has virtually disappeared in a few years.

Support Forest had virtually disappeared as an attacking force, with the outnumbered Clough receiving little support from midfield.

During a 45-day storm in the winter of 1968-69, the Mount Disney and Mount Lincoln chair lifts virtually disappeared .

For some years now, the amateur market has been dominated by one-piece machines and separates have virtually disappeared from the scene.

The gap between the knowledge of. the skilled worker and bourgeois technician has virtually disappeared or been greatly reduced.

eliminate

The problem is virtually eliminated in commercially grown mussels, by harvesting them before they are five years old.

Countries now routinely providing vitamin A have virtually eliminated vitamin Arelated blindness and death.

A few candidates may virtually eliminate themselves by their hesitancy and you can even consider refusing to continue the interview.

Those are the costs Proposition 186 would virtually eliminate .

For the bureaucracy itself, Marx noted how a Bonapartist regime virtually eliminated the risk of public scrutiny and criticism.

Either, combined with common-sense precautions exercised by drivers and passengers, can virtually eliminate air bag hazards.

Absentee landlords and large concentrations of landholdings were virtually eliminated .

He reacted rather than acted, and that virtually eliminates all of his effectiveness.

guarantee

Those price agreements, which virtually guarantee the firms a 25 percent profit on the drugs, are being renegotiated this month.

Yet this refusal to intervene virtually guarantees that core group behavior will continue to be encouraged by profit-minded entrepreneurs.

Official leniency is exploited by the smugglers who can virtually guarantee secure entry, whatever happens.

Yet continuity of basic policy is virtually guaranteed by the retention of Norman Lamont at the Treasury.

Like those cars, it's available in numbers exclusive enough to virtually guarantee future classic status.

When he batted, his name did not merely promise runs as virtually guarantee them.

ignore

Horizontal influences have been virtually ignored in Soviet and Western historiography alike.

But when he visits their classrooms, they virtually ignore his presence.

In contrast, non-communicable diseases have been virtually ignored by local health departments.

Once, this was difficult to cross; then, railways spanned it; now, air travel virtually ignores it.

General elections have become more presidential and the mass media virtually ignore the secondary party leaders.

Meanwhile, the cyber gods controlling the random selection virtually ignored some large districts in other areas of the state.

Batch processes and multipurpose plants are virtually ignored .

After months of virtually ignoring the programs, and years of well-publicized cutbacks, airlines and hotels are suddenly getting generous.

remain

Although overall revenues here were up 11% to £172.3m, after adjustment for exchange rates, they remained virtually unchanged.

Our striking power remained virtually intact.

Even 2 out of every 3 farm labouring families stayed put and overall 3 out of every 4 households remained virtually the same.

I had remained virtually silent throughout this meeting, confining myself to copious note-taking.

Designs resulting largely from trial and error remained virtually unchanged over 200 years.

Forbes, similarly, is remaining virtually free of financial strings in the form of contributions.

Thereafter their history remains virtually invisible for a hundred million years.

While they collected endorsements and magazine covers, Strug remained virtually faceless.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Virtually everyone expects Monica to succeed.

virtually published on the Internet

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It had virtually no towns, in fact; and those it had were very primitive indeed.

Some of them had abandoned front rooms and virtually none opened front windows.

The original building remains virtually intact and is now the administrative block of the North Wing.

The recession has cut the number of Thames's commercial customers and has virtually killed off profits from selling redundant properties.

They receive messages from virtually every nerve in the human body via connections with the optic nerve and spinal cord.

Unlike previous generations of cruise ships, the ever-larger vessels delivered in recent years have virtually no single cabins.

When disturbed they roll up so tightly that it is virtually impossible to unroll them.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.