adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
invisible exports (= services that are exported, such as banking or insurance, rather than a product )
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The City of London is important to the invisible exports of this country.
invisible ink
invisible to the naked eye
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Through his telescope he could see millions of stars that were invisible to the naked eye .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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He was nearing her, his face almost invisible because the light was behind him.
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Glover waited and then saw the man standing just inside the screen, almost invisible .
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A stream of laser light, almost invisible in the near-vacuum, played across the creature's head and glistening body.
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Outside the almost invisible windows, Earth and stars marched in a silent procession.
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Above the village, almost invisible against the velvet shroud of the night sky, something huge silently blotted out the stars.
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Galindo was left on the fringe of the sport, almost invisible .
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The entrance to the Dark Cave is almost invisible but the chamber inside is large.
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Against their huge bulk, the pilgrims and mule toiling up the almost invisible pathways are tiny and humbled.
practically
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So long as a tiger stands still or moves slowly, its stripes make it practically invisible in the jungle or among reeds.
virtually
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Thereafter their history remains virtually invisible for a hundred million years.
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They are attached to the speaker's clothing and are virtually invisible on shot.
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The ring is virtually invisible around the central cornea which is the critical area for clear vision.
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Soon they may be virtually invisible except for a discreet beacon.
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Because of its thin design and attractive white finish it's virtually invisible when the radiator is in place.
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It will be quiet, manoeuvrable, virtually invisible to radar and capable of supersonic flight without the use of afterburners.
■ NOUN
barrier
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If she fixed her focus with enough concentration she could envisage the invisible barrier .
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Yet there was Orr, gliding along as if shielded by an invisible barrier as the Hawks sleep-skated sheeplike in his wake.
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They work by forming an invisible barrier to prevent water loss.
body
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Just as death leads to the invisible body , so does birth.
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The true medium is the artist, who opens the way for whatever needs to emerge from the invisible body .
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Works of imagination make visible the invisible body .
earnings
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Trade gap narrows despite cut in invisible earnings .
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On this basis, Britain was the world's biggest generator of invisible earnings , and has probably remained so this year.
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Such earnings are little appreciated outside the specialist areas of business such as finance and insurance which directly contribute to invisible earnings.
export
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This has been undesirable, but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference.
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There were probably invisible exports too: exports of technical skill and artistry, exports of medicine and magic.
hand
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Not until higher prices translate into higher profits for private owners will enterprises respond appropriately to the bidding of the invisible hand .
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The invisible hand influences what prod-ucts will be produced and at what price.
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It had shaken her to see her own first name being written like that by an invisible hand .
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Similarly, the invisible hand of the market establishes value.
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Once again, I must stress that I do not see a great male conspiracy behind this, nor invisible hands guiding it.
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That invisible hand was coevolutionary life.
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Imagine holding out your leg and feeling it with your invisible hand while being unable actually to see it.
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The invisible hand was tempted to show Tom its middle finger.
ink
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A newly created invisible ink makes the animals disappear with the heat of your body.
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Vietcong couriers slipped into Saigon to pick up his reports, which he wrote in invisible ink made from starch.
line
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Fine, almost invisible lines covered the whole surface, as if the sphere were netted by the frailest of spiders' webs.
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A drifting cloud disappeared against some invisible line and began to emerge in another part of the sky altogether.
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In dOing 80, he had crossed an invisible line that separated the white and black beaches.
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She felt as though an invisible line through her backbone held her upright.
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The invisible lines , which traced the patterns of their existence, merged into one.
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Bobbie exhorted, as we sat staring at the invisible line that stretched beyond us.
man
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Platt was the invisible man - he did nothing - hah!
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He was now an invisible man , a lethal specter.
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By halftime, it was 44-31, with Barkley scoring just two points and Coimbra playing the invisible man .
world
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He found that in such a place present was near to past and visible near to the invisible world .
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The bird travels to the invisible worlds above, and the snake slithers into the mysteries below ground.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Invisible Man
The Invisible Man
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He nodded toward the distant ship. invisible in the darkness.
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The gas is invisible but highly dangerous.
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The space probe can photograph parts of the electronic spectrum that are invisible to the naked eye.
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Word Perfect uses invisible codes for many different functions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Criminology, like crime control, tends to focus on males and marginalise females or render them invisible .
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I stand up and begin to look for the invisible rung.
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In fact, some of the most exciting transport architectures are invisible .
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The pull of the invisible creature grew stronger.
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Then he straightened and dusted invisible grains of dirt from the knees of his coveralls.