adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an outward/visible sign (= one that people can see clearly )
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Kim received the news without showing any visible sign of emotion.
barely audible/perceptible/visible/discernible etc
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His voice was barely audible.
visible to/with the naked eye
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The mite is just visible to the naked eye.
visible/noticeable (= an effect that you can clearly see )
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He drank five beers, but they did not seem to have any visible effect on him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
barely
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The footprints at sites 8 and 9 disappear very slowly; digestion products are barely visible even 30 minutes after mixing.
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At night, the light of candles and hanging lamps rose into the darkness so the high beamed ceiling was barely visible .
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The neon lights outside were barely visible through the sheen of condensation coating the inside of the cafe window.
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Mostly black on black, its central diamond is traced in faint gold and barely visible .
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From base camp the summit was barely visible , so on sighting the route our surprise was all the greater.
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Jim kindled the Easter fire, a blue flame at first barely visible above the silver rim of a white bowl.
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Up on the plain the driver appears to move arbitrarily between barely visible tracks.
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Jean Piaget is barely visible amid piles of clutter.
clearly
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Yes, it was clearly visible .
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Against the pale background the plankton which swarmed on the surface were clearly visible .
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Here, in highly compelling fashion, the social convenience of the contented replaces the clearly visible reality.
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And it was no longer a point of light; it had begun to show a clearly visible disk.
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At one level, there is a clearly visible opposition between a historical and an existential perspective.
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Their blunt heads were clearly visible as they loitered, grey-black like bow-headed submarines.
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The stone walls of the bottom part of the wall section are clearly visible but most of the structure is ivy-clad.
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Stick-mikes are the all-rounders of the audio world, but when used for video their size makes them clearly visible on shot.
easily
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It is easily visible with the naked eye, and binoculars give it a vaguely cruciform appearance.
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But it will remain easily visible until mid-April, and perhaps later.
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It is easily visible from Hilo in Hawaii, where the latitude is 20 degrees north.
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Hale-Bopp and the waxing crescent will be easily visible in the Western sky after sunset Thursday and Friday.
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One of the advantages of the belt is that the animals are easily visible from afar in the gloom in rough country.
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It is because at this time the warning light is more easily visible in the twilight than in the daylight.
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An architecture is therefore required which will allow flexible and easily visible control over these interfaces.
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Men had to wear rough cotton shirts and white corduroy jackets and trousers, to be easily visible .
hardly
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Now, with the tide driven high by the approaching storm, it was hardly visible .
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Its much longer history before the 1880s is hardly visible .
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Vitali wore a black tunic stitched with purple runes which were hardly visible .
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There's a slight rash on your chest, hardly visible .
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The company also plans to landscape the site so it would be hardly visible from Clacton and Little Clacton.
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Jessie was small and hunched, like a white-haired mouse, hardly visible beneath the garments she carried.
highly
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It is highly visible , but there is an enormous mass of activity underneath.
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A television-led democracy too readily will sacrifice important long-term interests for highly visible short-term gains, it is argued.
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The 1950s was a period when state intervention in childhood was highly visible .
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A few people carefully chosen, highly visible , whose deaths might be noticed.
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But why can't you get something as waterproof and practical in highly visible colours?
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Those highly visible operations, which featured heavily armed government forces using aggressive pressure tactics, ended in deadly violence.
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Unemployment in the 1920s and 1930s, partly through the types of demonstrations outlined above, was highly visible .
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It is characteristic of most research writing that topic areas are set off, underlined or otherwise made highly visible .
just
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The outline of the junction was just visible .
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We can see where the plate and the chair were set, the marks are just visible on the floor.
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White water was just visible far below.
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Something resembling hard wood floors is just visible beneath a veil of potting soil and foam rubber confetti.
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There it is at last, a dimly lit porch, the number twenty-one just visible .
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Above us the slabby face was just visible through wildly animated curtains of driving spindrift.
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The mite is just visible to the naked eye and feeds on honey bees and their grubs by sucking their body fluids.
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Under the left, just visible , was a minute puncture.
less
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The other important but less visible change is that those who operate the robots and computers are part-time women workers.
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Cochran is considerably less visible in the Senate than either Lott or Nickles, and he is older.
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Toolbar buttons are easily overlooked as they are less visible .
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A less visible innovation is a shock absorber-like base isolation system intended to protect the building from major damage in future earthquakes.
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The poisons it contained were less visible now.
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All cart paths have been redone in concrete, and some have been repositioned to be less visible .
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The real danger in a public school is less visible and less visibly offensive.
more
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Surely a flashing red light would be far more visible in a tunnel than a static light?
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And there are more visible examples.
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Patterned sampling erodes the field man's personal discretion while it offers a more visible index of activity for the organization.
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Nowhere is the impact of religion on sports more visible than in football.
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Candidates became steadily more visible day by day throughout the campaign, however.
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Harborlights Pavilion, more visible in its second year, enjoyed a 50 percent sales jump, according to promoter Don Law.
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By those measures of visibility, national politicians were much more visible than local candidates from the start.
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It was an attempt to make them more visible , more vocal.
most
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Windows does the most visible part of the job OS/2 was designed to do.
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As the most visible and voluble owner in the National Football League, Jones has more than his share of detractors.
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Those countries where public attitudes are most tolerant are those where homosexuals are most visible , and gay groups most active.
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When a church is in her infancy there will be the most visible signs of growth, as with a child.
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The new assault on the professions is most visible in health care.
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These are most visible when ducal retainers stood surety for each other.
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In their most visible work, astronauts will let loose a retrievable satellite carrying a coffin-sized inflatable antenna.
so
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Obviously this is the reason why the people concerned were all so visible to each other.
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It has recently become an issue because it is so visible and entirely unregulated.
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The sky was so clear and the stars so visible that the earth could almost be seen turning.
still
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The dark shape was still visible against a background of dimly lit beams.
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The original sign formed in sea-shells is still visible beside the track.
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The paint is equally eye-catching-though not much of the bodywork is still visible under all that hair.
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The wounds were still visible in 1922.
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Underlying them, of course, were attitudes and principles still visible and audible half a century later.
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Some of them still visible in the morning.
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Stephen envied the innocence still visible beneath the strain that showed in Weir's open features.
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The remains of the blowing house, with the bricked-up water wheel aperture, is still visible .
very
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Revenue Revenue generation should be an obsession with every single company employee Revenue is very visible .
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He sent a very visible warning message that taking on a president is not to be lightly done.
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Even if paid in instalments it was very visible .
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We must have been very visible upon the parapet.
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Some aspects of travellers' lives, of the collective context in which individual problems arise, can be very visible .
■ NOUN
change
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The other important but less visible change is that those who operate the robots and computers are part-time women workers.
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The biggest visible changes will probably be seen in television programming.
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The visible changes which this programme creates have some positive effects on women's place in the discipline.
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Then, without a visible change of mood, he became inscrutable.
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Then, with a visible change of heart, she carefully smoothed it out again.
evidence
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The restoration debate starts from the assumption that art is immortal visible evidence of historical and cultural greatness.
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Many kinds of pollution provide visible evidence of their presence.
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So now, save for a few interesting mounds in the field, there is no visible evidence of its existence.
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If we get it right, displays will be about the only visible evidence of high technology.
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On identity, the outward and visible evidence of regional flags, institutions and bureaucracies is everywhere.
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It must rely on visible evidence of the presence or absence of a private condition.
light
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Red has the longest wavelength of visible light , and violet the shortest.
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Infrared cooling of the surface is also inhibited, but heat radiation is less affected by dust than visible light .
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To the joy of jewellers visible light has too low a frequency to excite an electron in a perfect diamond.
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This gas absorbs visible light so well that plants could not photosynthesize even if they somehow retained their leaves.
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Light is produced primarily by the phosphor coating converting short-wave radiation to visible light.
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Flashing blue lights , such as those described, are bioluminescence, which is visible light made by living organisms.
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Because the sandwich is only a few angstroms thick it transmits visible light - but it reflects longer wavelength heat radiation.
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Since Renaissance times, clear glass has been fashioned into prisms, mirrors and lenses that diffract and focus visible light .
representation
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Distributes or displays to another person any writing, sign or other visible representation , should all be given their ordinary meanings.
sign
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These changes in facial colour are the most visible sign that you are reacting to each other.
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Terry had the desire to see how they had been affected, or for any visible signs of compulsion.
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When a church is in her infancy there will be the most visible signs of growth, as with a child.
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The visible signs of this malaise included the loss of inner-city population and jobs and the deterioration of inner-city housing.
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There is no visible sign of rancour at the curious lifestyle imposed on her; she appears placidly resigned to her fate.
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The most visible signs of a growing revivalist spirit appeared in the ministry of James McGready in Kentucky.
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Funeral furnishing was a trade in which the outward and visible signs of his merchandise helped to advertise his craft.
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But now, any visible signs of success were few and far between.
spectrum
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The electronic bands in the visible spectrum are derived from d-d transitions.
world
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Though I can recall believing that when I was a member of the visible world .
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At 81d is the corollary that souls partially pure remain in the visible world .
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Through cannibalism the invisible terror of annihilation emerges into the visible world .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A single headlight was suddenly visible far below them.
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Black performers have become much more visible on Broadway.
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Detectives found no visible signs of a struggle.
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Only the top of his head was visible above the water.
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The bullet holes are still clearly visible in the walls.
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The church tower is visible from the next village.
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The marks are in faint gold, and hardly visible .
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The results of the housing policy are clearly visible .
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The stars were barely visible that night.
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These stars are barely visible to the naked eye.
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Trim any visible fat before frying the meat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He lit the cigarette, keeping both his hands high and visible .
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I could feel the blood gone from my face and I knew that my panic was visible .
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No solar eclipses will be visible from the United States in 1996, and only two will be visible from Earth.
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No stitching is visible from the right side.
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The impact on wealth distribution was already visible by the end of 1992, as Table 8-7 shows.
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The other important but less visible change is that those who operate the robots and computers are part-time women workers.
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The stages overlap with each other and the process is both continuous and deliberately visible .