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visit
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brief visit
▪ The President flew to Argentina for a brief visit.
a surprise visit
▪ Environmental health inspectors made a surprise visit to the restaurant.
an inspection visit
▪ To date no inspection visit has been made.
an official visit/engagement etc (=one that relates to an important job or position)
▪ The Prime Minister was on an official visit to China.
fleeting visit
▪ Carol was paying a fleeting visit to Paris.
go to/visit the library
▪ I need to go to the library to return some books.
return visit
the visiting team (=the team who have travelled to their opponents’ sports field)
▪ The visiting team failed to score.
tourists visit a place
▪ About six million tourists visit the country each year.
visit a website
▪ You can visit the university’s website to get more information.
visit/go to a gallery
▪ The children visited the gallery on a school trip.
visiting card
visiting hours
visiting professor
worth a trip/visit etc
▪ The local museum is worth a visit.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ For those without a car, there are daily coach tours to enable them to visit the surrounding areas.
▪ In the seven days since the Grand Forks mayoral election was held, I've visited five area communities.
▪ It was an unpleasant shock to discover Bentley Drummle there, but I could imagine his reason for visiting the area.
▪ Waverley the last sea-going paddle-steamer visits the area during the summer months.
▪ In what ways might each of these proposed developments reduce the pleasures of people who live in or visit the area?
▪ The hon. Gentleman invited me to visit the area.
▪ The president may visit the hardest-hit areas.
▪ What on map B, page 93, suggests that tourists visit that area?
city
▪ He and his three-piece combo will helm the nine-week tour, visiting 41 cities.
▪ We visited the ancient city of Petra and rode camels.
▪ Guests visit the city of Arequipa with the serene monastery of Santa Catalina.
▪ Another example of a Markov chain is the movement pattern of a business executive who visits four cities each week.
▪ Some 25 million tourists visited the city, 1 percent more than in 1994.
▪ Finally, they visited the city attorney.
country
▪ While Eva was at Usher, General Coutts visited the country.
▪ She had been visiting a country house to identify fabrics and advise on conservation.
▪ She visited fourteen countries, going to places which often no one else would visit.
▪ If Minton, however, visited Lehmann at his country cottage for Sunday lunch, he did so in Ricky's company.
▪ They discovered that you don't need to book into the Sheraton Hotel to visit a country.
▪ Since December 1989 President Havel as head of state had visited 23 countries and had officially received 140 foreign guests.
▪ Each operating region is visited once every three months and in between, he visits other countries to look at specific projects.
▪ After visiting 53 countries Denis was just one short.
doctor
▪ David decided not to visit the firm's doctor.
▪ We knew nothing of what had become of her since the June morning she and Dad had left to visit the doctor.
▪ The paper also advocated increased charges for the health service and suggested further savings, like charging patients to visit the doctor.
▪ Make a list of all the drugs and take it each time you visit a doctor or pharmacist.
▪ Since the underlying causes remained, the women visited their doctors with increasing frequency.
▪ Meanwhile, Agnes begins to rethink her decision while visiting the handsome doctor in his splendid Venetian mansion.
▪ Even before the blazer, I had very reluctantly decided that the time had come to visit my doctor.
▪ It reopened after students and instructors visited a doctor, and the building was disinfected.
family
▪ She would not visit her own family, except as a formality, and then as briefly as decency permitted.
▪ The postcards were usually of places we had visited as a family on those grueling summer vacations long ago.
▪ Later on, I ventured to express the hope that one day he would perhaps visit my family in Merstham.
▪ Ultimately, he hoped to visit family in Chicago, Atlanta and Alabama.
▪ A servant told her that Gilbey had visited the family estate two weeks earlier - with Lisa on his arm.
▪ She has been allowed out now to visit her family because she has just married off her only daughter.
▪ She's been visiting the Compton family who have been without their car for the last two months.
▪ Most often, entertainment is visiting family, attending their children's functions, camping, hiking and church.
friend
▪ Her friends came to visit in garish canoes, landed and partied and paddled home in the purple sunrise.
▪ When my friend Leshe and I visited the cave the guide showed us a large stone disc by an open flat area.
▪ Stephen Hart has a friend visiting him.
▪ Her parents sat up late to hear him, though when her New York friends visited they went early to bed.
▪ Life drifted aimlessly, until a friend came visiting with her Labrador Retriever.
▪ When a musician friend came to visit, I encouraged the boys to put on a concert for her.
home
▪ Alderley Edge side Icicals scored 186-6 when they visited Burnage, the home side managed 163-9 in reply.
▪ He had visited Ward at his home to inform him about the changes at Stark and Evans, and to reassure him.
▪ During my stay I visited schools, homes and families.
▪ They had met the teachers there last week when they visited the home of Ruben Dario.
▪ Sometimes the officer in charge is able to visit the client at home or in hospital.
▪ Miss Earhart had visited my home and while there, we decided to take a little jaunt.
▪ Only the minimum number of officers necessary will visit homes and parents will always be told what they are doing and why.
▪ How often did Fred Taylor visit the homes of friends from the shop or otherwise see them outside work hours?
hospital
▪ They hadn't been to visit Baby in hospital either.
▪ Next day before sunup she rose to visit the hospital.
▪ Many new school volunteers were apprehensive about visiting the hospital, anxieties fed by their fear of the unknown.
▪ He got them free toys and signed photographs of hockey stars; he found time to visit them in the hospital.
▪ Acheson visited Vandenberg in hospital on 21 January and the senator emphasised his support for Acheson's policy.
▪ Afterward, he visited the hospital, dropped by the Grill for breakfast, and headed to the office, walking.
▪ Celia and Danny visited the hospital infrequently.
▪ He said he did not know how long Tutu would visit the hospital.
house
▪ How unsettled and agitated he had been when they last had visited the Springall house.
▪ Just visit the White House, as you said you would, and heal those people.
▪ Now that Sarah was back at work Anne was not visiting the Redmond house as frequently, and she missed her visits there.
▪ However, he promised to visit White House during the next full moon.
▪ I had only visited the house - now a museum - once before.
▪ They later visited the house at least three times, neighbors and others say, but allowed the children to remain.
▪ Co., and visit owners of private houses, castles and gardens.
island
▪ This type of person continued to visit the island until the 1960s and the advent of air travel for all.
▪ Wildlife enthusiasts may prefer to visit the nature reserve islands of Oxney and Thanet.
▪ In 1695, he toured both the Inner and the Outer Hebrides, visiting many of the islands personally.
▪ For real life, visit Moila, the island of the ivory tower.
▪ We had come to Phang Nga to visit the limestone islands that rear in their hundreds from the bay.
▪ Le Monde of Aug. 21 reported that the Prime Minister was to visit the island shortly.
minister
▪ I understand that the Minister is planning to visit Raleigh Industries within the next 10 days.
museum
▪ We recently visited the Bomber Command museum at Hendon in north London, which was interesting from a nostalgic point of view.
▪ Want to visit the museum without leaving your home or office?
▪ After buying our souvenirs we had lunch and visited the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood.
▪ Instead, I tried to visit as many other museums as I could in just a few hours.
▪ Next time you visit Fenland Aviation Museum, make a point of looking at the photograph albums pertaining to the Merlin's strip-down.
▪ Tourists will visit scores of new museums and monuments in neighborhoods now plagued by crime and decay.
▪ Glasgow is an excellent town for shopping, or perhaps you would care to visit the museums, including the Burrell Collection.
▪ As for public buildings, I still like visiting the Getty Museum.
official
▪ A Health and Safety Executive official visited the school later.
▪ State officials said the visiting police helped state agents detain 12 people and recuperate 12 stolen cars.
▪ On the eve of the Wallabies' departure, St George officials visited the Wallabies' hotel to seek his signature.
place
▪ They travelled by ferry, and among the places that they visited were Paris, Lille and Bruges.
▪ In many of the places that I visited, universal primary education is not yet established.
▪ And those worlds are wonderful places to visit, as millions of readers have learned.
▪ Closer to the Alba base at Dunstaffnage, however, there are still scores of places to visit.
▪ It's the sort of place priests visit all the time to hear the confessions.
▪ Your local computer supplier may be the first place to visit.
▪ Did anyone tell you that galleries were interesting places to visit, or even take you there?
school
▪ From the age of four my granda Hugh would visit the socialist Sunday school.
▪ The mobile museum visits schools, retirement homes, shopping centers and other venues.
▪ No inspector had visited the school for years.
▪ Brocklehurst visits the school to lecture the students on self-denial and the horrors of the lusts of the flesh.
▪ In the following week the students visit their school practice school.
▪ She loved visiting schools, talking with teachers, and helping the kids learn.
▪ During my stay I visited schools, homes and families.
▪ Today if you visit the school you notice only one difference.
site
▪ Near Lake Como there is even an annual cycle race that visits the sites mentioned in the book.
▪ The guide lectures on the history and culture of the city, and guests visit the most famous sites.
▪ Whilst the ride itself was uneventful, the reception we received as we visited each of the sites in turn was fantastic.
▪ What a natural extension it would be to take Brady to visit historical sites related to those dolls and their historical eras!
▪ As part of his job he is required to visit building sites.
▪ They can track how often you visit their site and what features you like best.
▪ They are visiting 6 sites, including Bishop's Castle, on their itinerary.
▪ Academy teachers visit the work sites once a week.
state
▪ Ready for action A big question mark hangs over the wisdom of visiting any Arab state at present, writes Mike Harper.
▪ Equally determined, Clinton has visited the state 23 times since being elected president.
▪ He lingers over that and I wait for him to ask why I was visiting a Communist state.
▪ In the first 28 days of September, Clinton spent 18 days on the campaign trail visiting 21 states.
▪ So far this year, he has visited at least 15 states.
▪ Over the same four-week period, Dole spent 21 days on the campaign trail visiting 20 states.
▪ Davis visited Kansas State last weekend and is expected to transfer.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The girls were allowed to visit him in the clinic.
▪ The mosque owns 9, 000 surrounding acres, including Plaza Blanca, which it allows the public to visit.
▪ The abbe had allowed me to visit friends.
▪ She has been allowed out now to visit her family because she has just married off her only daughter.
▪ I wasn't allowed to visit him at Croisset.
▪ That allows the recipient to visit the site by clicking on the icon instead of typing a lengthy address.
▪ Only archaeologists and scholars are allowed to visit now, in small, strictly limited groups.
▪ After the feud he refused to allow Jamila to visit her parents.
come
▪ Simon is overjoyed to see me, because no one has come to visit him since he stopped work.
▪ Ever since his parents came to visit for Christmas, Berg has started playing more aggressively.
▪ Why didn't they come and visit me, Mum and Dad?
▪ Young Cooper was a fool not to have come visiting on his own.
▪ Dorothy stood by him and came to visit him every day.
▪ You come visit me, cousin.
▪ I will tell Sarah you are coming to visit us on Wednesday afternoon.
▪ You can come back tomorrow during visiting hours.
plan
▪ I understand that the Minister is planning to visit Raleigh Industries within the next 10 days.
▪ The only satisfactory resolution is to plan future visits in order to complete a thorough sampling.
▪ He plans to visit some 100 towns and cities.
▪ They planned to visit the Rockies and fly on to Vancouver and then down into the States.
▪ Tam himself plans to visit Washington, he said.
▪ Originally he had planned to visit her in her apartment tomorrow.
▪ A friend and I are planning to visit Ireland this summer.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying visit
▪ Its inventor looks like he's on a flying visit to the twentieth century.
conjugal visit
▪ Even as early as the second stage of imprisonment conjugal visits are permitted every fifteen days.
courtesy visit/call
▪ To this end an unofficial courtesy visit was arranged and in August 1857 the Imperial couple came to Osborne.
domiciliary services/care/visits etc
▪ Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
▪ Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
▪ It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
▪ Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
▪ Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
▪ One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
▪ Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
▪ Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
fact-finding trip/visit/mission etc
▪ At that stage, I did not make any connection between my irritability and my fact-finding missions.
▪ My older brother, who had a crush on my friend, often accompanied me on these fact-finding missions.
▪ Some pass the evening chatting to a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
▪ There is always a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
▪ There will also be in-depth discussion on Northern Ireland and the Mr Clinton's plan to send a fact-finding mission.
▪ There will be no fact-finding missions to any of the countries in question.
▪ This in turn means swotting up on the subject, going on fact-finding missions and meeting politicians and organisers.
▪ When on the fact-finding mission, my approach was a lot like yours, matter-of-fact.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A police officer will be visiting next week to give the children a talk on crime prevention.
▪ Every year thousands of tourists visit Turkey.
▪ For more information on how you can help, visit our website.
▪ He was the first traveller from the British Isles to visit Abyssinia.
▪ How much do you visit with your Mom and Dad while you're here?
▪ I visit my grandparents at least once a month.
▪ I don't see him that often, but I like to go and visit with him when I can.
▪ I went to visit her last winter and I really had a great time.
▪ Mom and Aunt Jo were sitting drinking coffee and visiting.
▪ Paul visited her every day when she was in hospital.
▪ She sent me some photographs of when she visited in December.
▪ So are you just visiting friends out here or something?
▪ The Ambassador last visited Hong Kong in 1982.
▪ The inspection team visited the plant twice in October.
▪ This afternoon the Queen will visit Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
▪ Thousands of Americans visit Thailand each year.
▪ We've got some friends visiting from out of town this weekend.
▪ We spent the day visiting temples and other historic buildings.
▪ We won't be that far away - you'll be able to come and visit.
▪ You should visit the dentist twice a year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Anyone caught visiting the Bookman during these was automatically punished and he kept swapping them around to try and catch people out.
▪ Clubs are still invited to continue to visit the warehouse by the usual arranged bus trips.
▪ His management trademark is carrying index cards in his shirt pocket so that he can note mistakes while visiting Darden restaurants.
▪ Over the same four-week period, Dole spent 21 days on the campaign trail visiting 20 states.
▪ Tam himself plans to visit Washington, he said.
▪ They may wish to visit during the building stages.
▪ While Eva was at Usher, General Coutts visited the country.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brief
▪ And Miss Russell was only able to pay a brief visit.
▪ Some guides are indeed very brief, suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen.
▪ Gandhi exclaimed at a meeting in Madras, on October 26, 1896, during a brief visit to his native land.
▪ On that first brief visit I made up my mind that one day I would return there.
▪ But fortunately at that moment her gynaecologist called in for a brief visit and Brian went off to the nursery.
▪ Promotion for Mr Wilson followed and after a brief visit to Naples to tie up affairs he returned to London.
▪ Our landing party managed to crowd a lot into their brief visit.
official
▪ Yesterday he was on an official visit home.
▪ In April he had paid an official visit to Washington along with Elena.
previous
▪ But the efficient-looking woman who had manned the reception desk on Folly's previous visit was not yet at her post.
▪ She had a history of frequent previous such visits with a response to breathing into a paper bag.
▪ Carolyn was dismayed; she had found the place very frightening on her previous visits.
▪ It is the same Salvor Hardin, who on his previous visit, ground our noses into the dust.
▪ It was hard to believe that they had lost on their 11 previous visits to Old Trafford.
▪ The fact he had been defeated on his five previous visits to the Cheltenham festival mattered not.
▪ Robbie remembered the crystal ball from his previous visit.
recent
▪ My most recent visit produced a sloughed skin threaded through the turf.
▪ But Sadat did not let those memories paralyze her, she recalled in a recent visit here.
▪ Five Days in Dubai An account of my recent visit to Dubai will be in my next diary.
▪ I was glad that that was recognised by Mr. Baker on his recent visit to the Soviet Union.
regular
▪ However, even this chore was quickly organised to accommodate regular visits to his beloved Scourie.
▪ So I may anticipate regular visits of inspection and solicitude while they wait for me to get a belly full of independence.
▪ Prisons are exempt from having regular visits from environmental health officers, but in April 1992 this Crown Immunity will be lifted.
▪ Sweet things should be an after-meal treat only. Regular visits to the dentist are still important.
▪ Your doctor and the hospital will arrange for you to make regular visits for antenatal care.
▪ She makes regular visits to Osteopath, Steven Davies in Cheltenham for treatment.
▪ Sir John pays regular visits to the traders to offer advice.
▪ Nicklaus made regular visits to oversee operations as the course was being carved out of the lush countryside.
return
▪ But when the Establishment booked a return visit for the comedian for 8 April 1963 it had problems.
▪ During his long walk home, he tried to figure out how to justify a return visit.
▪ The event was such a success that club members are very much looking forward to him making a return visit.
▪ Their elephant of a house was subordinate to no white mansion, and no Commonwealth Avenue calling cards urged return visits.
▪ Another statistic - 64 percent of Somerwest's 320,000 customers last year were paying a return visit.
▪ The crisis of the eighties occasions a return visit.
▪ There was some urgency because the return visit from Sochi was about to take place.
■ NOUN
state
▪ You can dish them out to visiting dignitaries at the end of a state visit.
▪ Clinton flies to Tokyo late Tuesday for a two-day state visit.
▪ I look forward to your state visit to Brigantia.
▪ She explained that she wore furs and her jewelry only when she traveled abroad with her husband on state visits.
▪ Sadat had ordered photographs of the Shah, left over from an earlier state visit, to be mounted along the route.
▪ This week was her first state visit here in 17 years.
■ VERB
arrange
▪ Before my marriage, I had to arrange a visit to the mikva.
▪ She helped to arrange a visit to some families who lived nearby.
▪ Normally it takes about six days to arrange a visit, even if you cable both ways.
▪ Joette, never one for passive visitors, has soon arranged my visits to coincide with the weekly pumpkin observations.
▪ I asked the probation department if they could arrange a visit as it didn't look like anyone else was going to.
▪ They had arranged all sorts of visits and expeditions for her, but she stayed mostly in Satipur because of Douglas.
▪ Of course, our various Ministries are happy to arrange visits to fine restaurants, the concert, the opera, the ballet.
begin
▪ It was not long before several families from Titagarh began making weekly visits to the mobile dispensary.
▪ The Pope began a week-long visit to the Holy Land.
▪ My story begins with a visit to a great friend of mine, John Blackwell.
follow
▪ The move follows a visit to the fire department in St Petersburg by a group of firemen from the county.
▪ Julie is admitted as an emergency on the request of her General Practitioner following a home visit.
include
▪ The Duke of Edinburgh would include a visit to her Medau group.
▪ The account of his stay in Naples includes a visit to Pompeii and the ascent of Vesuvius.
▪ Daily itineraries included visits to schools, universities, hospitals, businesses, concerts and historic sites.
▪ Hospital discharge procedures for elderly people often include a trial visit home and multidisciplinary conferences with community workers and hospital workers.
make
▪ The event was such a success that club members are very much looking forward to him making a return visit.
▪ Valparaiso is a fine university making its first visit to the tournament.
▪ I can catch a bus and make a visit.
▪ Last Monday, Clinton made his seventh visit to Ohio this year.
▪ Over the years I made the occasional visit to Cheltenham.
▪ I am now going to make a visit.
▪ He had made another visit as well, about which he had not told the King.
▪ It makes for a comprehensive visit.
pay
▪ And Miss Russell was only able to pay a brief visit.
▪ Helen, a woman in her late sixties, has a case of insomnia and pays her doctor a visit.
▪ No, Robert insisted, he could not, would not, pay a visit to such distant parts.
▪ She told me she left him the day after Lew Edwards and I paid a curious visit to idyllic Acra.
▪ Dolly was paying frequent visits to the house.
▪ Her brother paid a visit at her convent one day.
▪ Another statistic - 64 percent of Somerwest's 320,000 customers last year were paying a return visit.
plan
▪ We therefore advise anyone planning a visit to book early.
▪ Bob Dole of Kansas, plan numerous visits to the state in the months ahead.
▪ It is useful to plan a programme of visits, investigating software on one subject at a time.
▪ Valda and Varvara have planned the visit while walking back and forth across the school courtyard with books balanced on their heads.
▪ Record cards should be provided by management and salespeople encouraged to use them as part of the sales plan before each visit.
▪ For teachers and students there is a wealth of valuable research material and all the information required to plan an educational visit.
▪ I was annoyed at having to ask, to plan my visit around Oliver Ingraham.
receive
▪ She would receive visits only from her husband and Louisa.
▪ Family graves may occasionally receive a visit by a lone person shouldering a glum aura.
▪ On the day we finally got the job finished we received a visit from John Hall.
▪ She hardly ever received a visit, or even a letter.
▪ At that time you will receive a visit from a man.
▪ Taylor received their unexpected visits, notices arrived in the mail informing them that they were being taken to court.
▪ Undoubtedly you will receive a visit from the hospital chaplain.
▪ Most had never received visits from employers with job openings for high school graduates.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying visit
▪ Its inventor looks like he's on a flying visit to the twentieth century.
conjugal visit
▪ Even as early as the second stage of imprisonment conjugal visits are permitted every fifteen days.
courtesy visit/call
▪ To this end an unofficial courtesy visit was arranged and in August 1857 the Imperial couple came to Osborne.
domiciliary services/care/visits etc
▪ Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
▪ Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
▪ It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
▪ Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
▪ Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
▪ One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
▪ Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
▪ Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
fact-finding trip/visit/mission etc
▪ At that stage, I did not make any connection between my irritability and my fact-finding missions.
▪ My older brother, who had a crush on my friend, often accompanied me on these fact-finding missions.
▪ Some pass the evening chatting to a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
▪ There is always a Member of Parliament on a fact-finding mission.
▪ There will also be in-depth discussion on Northern Ireland and the Mr Clinton's plan to send a fact-finding mission.
▪ There will be no fact-finding missions to any of the countries in question.
▪ This in turn means swotting up on the subject, going on fact-finding missions and meeting politicians and organisers.
▪ When on the fact-finding mission, my approach was a lot like yours, matter-of-fact.
pay (sb) a call/visit
▪ Another out-of-town visitor paid a call last month.
▪ Having met his hero one evening at a small gathering, he was invited to pay a call the following week.
▪ I was more than once surprised to see men going into those rooms, paying visits to the legless men.
▪ Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.
▪ No, Robert insisted, he could not, would not, pay a visit to such distant parts.
▪ The Marshal decided it was time to pay a visit to Headquarters.
▪ Then one day, just for old times' sake, I paid a visit to Winston Street.
▪ They were scheduled to pay a visit to another model resettlement village that morning - their last official tour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It was my first visit to my wife's parents' house.
▪ Polly and I had a nice long visit.
▪ She took the whole class out there for a visit.
▪ The girls were quite excited because they were expecting a visit from their parents.
▪ The president will make a brief visit to Britain before returning home.
▪ The Queen will pay a state visit to China later this year.
▪ The Senator's visit to the Military Academy at Andover was a great success.
▪ We're all looking forward to your visit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At each visit they will feel your abdomen, and find out how high the top of the womb has risen.
▪ During the visit a glimpse of the future Garratt type locomotive was obtained.
▪ He doesn't see or talk to anyone from the works this visit.
▪ Members of the economic development and planning subcommittee voted to refuse planning permission after a site visit yesterday.
▪ Reading face five meetings in four days over Easter, starting with a Gold Cup visit to Poole this afternoon.
▪ The Christmas visits are seen as part of the long recovery process after the accident.
▪ Two days before the President's visit they began to dress the mast like a Christmas tree.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Visit

Visit \Vis"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Visited; p. pr. & vb. n. Visiting.] [F. visiter, L. visitare, fr. visere to go to see, to visit, fr. videre, visum to see. See Vision.]

  1. To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

  2. Specifically: To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge.

  3. (Script.) To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath.

    [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.
    --Like i. 68.

Visit

Visit \Vis"it\, v. i. To make a visit or visits; to maintain visiting relations; to practice calling on others.

Visit

Visit \Vis"it\, n. [Cf. F. visite. See Visit, v. t., and cf. Visite.]

  1. The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call; as, a visit of civility or respect; a visit to Saratoga; the visit of a physician.

  2. The act of going to view or inspect; an official or formal inspection; examination; visitation; as, the visit of a trustee or inspector.

    Right of visit (Internat. Law), the right of visitation. See Visitation, 4.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
visit

c.1200, "come to (a person) to comfort or benefit," from Old French visiter "to visit; inspect, examine; afflict" (12c.) and directly from Latin visitare "to go to see, come to inspect," frequentative of visere "behold, visit" (a person or place), from past participle stem of videre "to see, notice, observe" (see vision). Originally of the deity, later of pastors and doctors (c.1300), general sense of "pay a call" is from mid-13c. Meaning "come upon, afflict" (in reference to sickness, punishment, etc.) is recorded in English from mid-14c. Related: Visited; visiting.

visit

1620s, "friendly or formal call upon someone," from visit (v.) and from French visite (n.). From 1800 as "short or temporary trip to some place." With pay (v.) since 1650s.

Wiktionary
visit

n. A single act of visit#Verb. vb. 1 (context transitive English) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) (from 13th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) (from 13th c.) 3 (context transitive intransitive English) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability. (from 14th c.) 4 (context transitive now rare English) To punish, to inflict harm (term: upon) (someone or something). (from 14th c.) 5 (context transitive English) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone). (from 14th c.) 6 (context transitive English) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) (term: on) or (term: upon) someone. (from 14th c.) 7 (context transitive English) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) (from 14th c.) 8 (context transitive English) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc. (from 15th c.)

WordNet
visit
  1. n. the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time; "he dropped by for a visit"

  2. a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice; "he scheduled a visit to the dentist"

  3. the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)

  4. the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity; "a visit to the dentist"

  5. a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) [syn: sojourn]

visit
  1. v. visit a place, as for entertainment; "We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning" [syn: see]

  2. go to certain places as for sightseeing; "Did you ever visit Paris?" [syn: travel to]

  3. pay a brief visit; "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens" [syn: call in, call]

  4. come to see in an official or professional capacity; "The governor visited the prison"; "The grant administrator visited the laboratory" [syn: inspect]

  5. impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students" [syn: inflict, bring down, impose]

  6. talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver]

  7. stay with as a guest; "Every summer, we visited our relatives in the country for a month"

  8. assail; "He was visited with a terrible illness that killed him quickly"

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Usage examples of "visit".

You simply wish to keep Abigail an invalid so you can visit her in her bed.

Will pegged as physically being able to visit those other realms, he had a hard time accepting their existence and his ability to travel to them.

He, therefore, who is known to have lapsed into heresy before his abjuration, if after his abjuration he receives heretics, visits them, gives or sends them presents or gifts, or shows favour to them, etc.

The purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated struck at me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly over-balanced my ardour for strange delvings.

Despite a conservative training--or because of it, for humdrum lives breed wistful longings of the unknown--he swore a great oath to scale that avoided northern cliff and visit the abnormally antique gray cottage in the sky.

The Pleiades were all abuzz over the advent of their visiting star, Miss Frances Homer, the celebrated monologuist, who, at Eaton Auditorium, again presented her Women of Destiny series, in which she portrays women of history and the influence they brought to bear upon the lives of such momentous world figures as Napoleon, Ferdinand of Spain, Horatio Nelson and Shakespeare.

By all accounts, the Newlands disliked Glenn Abies but had undertaken the journey north in order to visit Marjorie and the children, whom they had not seen in over four years.

I was then in the habit of calling sometimes upon Lucrezia in the morning, and of visiting in the evening Father Georgi, who was acquainted with the excursion to Frascati, and had not expressed any dissatisfaction.

As I was obliged to keep my room, I let my friends know of my confinement, and I received visits from dancers and ballet-girls, who were the only decent people I was acquainted with in that wretched Stuttgart, where I had better never have set foot.

She paid him a daily visit, but always escorted by her mother, a former actress, who had retired from the stage in order to work out her salvation, and who, as a matter of course, had made up her mind to combine the interests of heaven with the works of this world.

Seven or eight days afterwards, Paterno told me that the actress had related the affair to him exactly in the same words which I had used, and she had added that, if I had ceased my visits, it was only because I was afraid of her taking me at my word in case I should renew my proposal.

After paying a pretty penny to both the informant and the owner of the bar, I found out that Adeem visited quite frequently.

On this admonition he took his departure, revolving in his mind various stratagems whereby the younger Miss Merriville could be excluded from the forthcoming visit to Grosvenor Place without opposition from her masterful sister.

Some of his ministerial associates took offence at his eccentricities, and called on a visit of admonition to the offending clergyman.

Immediately before the battle of Verona, he visited the tent of his mother and sister, and requested, that on a day, the most illustrious festival of his life, they would adorn him with the rich garments which they had worked with their own hands.