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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vista
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
▪ He rarely opened new vistas and he rarely inspired his supporters.
▪ And when they do, new powers often emerge, new energies are brought to play, new vistas begin to open.
▪ Their paths afford spectacular views, and new vistas open up around every corner.
▪ The rerouted nature trail offers three new vistas from about 150 feet above river level.
▪ I used to stare by the hour at the old and the new vistas side by side.
▪ But approaching from the front opens up entirely new vistas deep inside the face, he said.
▪ The information, at first, had seemed to open up new vistas.
▪ My unsatisfying play opened new vistas.
■ VERB
open
▪ He rarely opened new vistas and he rarely inspired his supporters.
▪ Beginning next month, more Crissy Field buildings will be taken apart, opening more Bay vistas to hikers and bike riders.
▪ But it does open up a vista for the future.
▪ But approaching from the front opens up entirely new vistas deep inside the face, he said.
▪ The information, at first, had seemed to open up new vistas.
▪ My unsatisfying play opened new vistas.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a spectacular mountain vista
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beginning next month, more Crissy Field buildings will be taken apart, opening more Bay vistas to hikers and bike riders.
▪ He stood gazing off into vistas, legs apart, arms folded across his chest and thought deep thoughts.
▪ In front a simple porch offered a spectacular vista of coconut-fringed beach, lagoon, and open sea beyond.
▪ The castle commands a magnificent vista of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
▪ There was only one small patch of disappointment in his vista of happiness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vista

Vista \Vis"ta\, n.; pl. Vistas. [It., sight, view, fr. vedere, p. p. visto, veduto, to see, fr. L. videre, visum. See View, Vision.] A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue.

The finished garden to the view Its vistas opens, and its alleys green.
--Thomson.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
--Burke.

The shattered tower which now forms a vista from his window.
--Sir W. Scott.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vista

1650s, "a view or prospect," from Italian vista "sight, view," noun use of fem. past participle of vedere "see," from Latin videre "to see" (see vision).

Wiktionary
vista

n. 1 A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or a passage 2 A site offering such a view. 3 (label en figuratively) A vision, a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.

WordNet
vista

n. the visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views" [syn: view, aspect, prospect, scene, panorama]

Gazetteer
Vista, MO -- U.S. village in Missouri
Population (2000): 55
Housing Units (2000): 24
Land area (2000): 0.131145 sq. miles (0.339664 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.131145 sq. miles (0.339664 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76390
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.988824 N, 93.664037 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Vista, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 89857
Housing Units (2000): 29814
Land area (2000): 18.681240 sq. miles (48.384187 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 18.681240 sq. miles (48.384187 sq. km)
FIPS code: 82996
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 33.193549 N, 117.241140 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 92083 92084
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
VISTA (economics)

VISTA is an acronym for Vietnam, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey, Argentina. It is used in economics in discussing emerging markets.

The concept was first proposed in 2006 by BRICs Economic Research Institute of Japan.

VISTA (comparative genomics)

VISTA is a collection of databases, tools, and servers that permit extensive comparative genomics analyses.

VISTA (Hong Kong)

VISTA is a private housing estate in Fuk Wah Street, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong, with 2-minutes walking distance to MTR Sham Shui Po Station. Being one of the tallest buildings in Sham Shui Po area, it consists of one residential building with a total of 173 units. It was jointly developed by Sino Land and Urban Renewal Authority in 2009.

Vista (album)

Vista is an album by American jazz saxophonist Marion Brown recorded in 1975 and released on the Impulse! label.

Vista (IIM Bangalore's annual business summit)

Vista, is the annual international business summit hosted by IIM Bangalore. The summit spanning across three days can be defined as the "coming together of academia and industry". The event brings together the leaders of every field, like, marketing, finance, operations, human resources, consulting, social work, etc. and provides a platform for students to enhance knowledge in the field learning from veterans through events, competitions and case studies. The event also incorporates several guest speaker sessions and conclaves from people who have inspired generations of Indians into success.

VistA

VISTA consists of nearly 180 applications for clinical, financial, administrative, and infrastructure needs in VA integrated into a single, common database, permitting all VA applications to share one single, authoritative data source for all veteran-related care and services. The U.S. Congress has mandated the VA keep all veterans health information in one single authoritative system, and has mandated VISTA as this role.

Over 60% of all physicians trained in the U.S. rotate through the VHA on clinical electives, making VistA the most familiar and widely used EHR in the U.S. Nearly half of all U.S. hospitals that have a complete inpatient/outpatient enterprise-wide implementation of an EHR are VA hospitals using VistA.

VISTA (telescope)

The VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a wide-field reflecting telescope with a 4.1 metre mirror, located at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. It is operated by the European Southern Observatory and started science operations in December 2009. VISTA is a survey telescope working at infrared wavelengths, and is by far the largest telescope in the world dedicated to surveying the sky at near-infrared wavelengths. The telescope has only one instrument: VIRCAM, the Vista InfraRed CAMera. This is a 3-tonne camera containing 16 special detectors sensitive to infrared light, with a combined total of 67 million pixels.

A second-generation instrument (4MOST, a 2400-object fibre-fed multi-object spectrograph) is under development for installation around 2020.

Observing at wavelengths longer than those visible to the human eye allows VISTA to study objects that may be almost impossible to see in visible light because they are cool, obscured by dust clouds or because their light has been stretched towards redder wavelengths by the expansion of space during the light’s long journey from the early Universe.

VISTA was conceived and developed by a consortium of universities in the United Kingdom led by Queen Mary, University of London and became an in-kind contribution to ESO as part of the UK's accession agreement, with the subscription paid by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

Vista (song)

"Vista" is the debut single by South Korean girl group Fiestar. The single was released on August 31, 2012 by LOEN Entertainment.

Usage examples of "vista".

The scale of such vistas so great that their sense of themselves, the plain humanness aggrandizing every puny ego, lost its turgor, its shape, a goodly portion of its size.

Satanism, and at all times he devoured avidly any doctrine or theory which seemed to promise escape from the close vistas of science and the dully unvarying laws of Nature.

Line after line, and rank after rank, they choked the neck of the valley with a long vista of tossing pennons, twinkling lances, waving plumes and streaming banderoles, while the curvets and gambades of the chargers lent a constant motion and shimmer to the glittering, many-colored mass.

Joe tromped loudly into the house and transferred the twelve birdlets from bis pockets into an old-fashioned, hexagonal glass-paneled ballot jar which he had bought for five bucks at a Monte Vista, Colorado, auction.

As the whole of the population which before had been extended along the entire course of the water, was now crowded between the bridge and the Bucentaur, the long and graceful avenue resembled a vista of human heads.

When we first saw the case, there had been three murders, all at the Buena Vista Garden Apartments in the Clairemont area.

She was an aspiring actress from Okemos, Michigan, who had come during spring break to visit her brother, who lived at the Buena Vista Garden Apartments.

On Sunday, March 3,1991, police in Birmingham arrested the twenty-three-year-old black former Navy mechanic, who had lived in the Buena Vista Garden Apartments complex at the time of the first three murders.

The key to the case was the DNA match between semen found on the clothing of the second Buena Vista victim, twenty-one-year-old Janene Weinhold, and blood and saliva samples they got from Prince.

The Buena Vista of today is a faithful reproduction of one of the fabled romantic bistros which flourished here in the Twentieth Century.

India blossomed, a circumambient vista from light-years distant, centuries ago.

But, both in the lay membership and in the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Negro coming into contact with the best results of modern forces, not only rises up to higher standards, but is saved from the insidious evils of conceitedness by ever seeing the vistas beyond him.

From the deck, Barry could watch the buildup of the storms, see the coalescing clouds, watch the rain as it came up from the south and moved like a light white curtain over the canyon lands and through the hilly forest toward Corban and Bonita Vista.

The article went on to say that Bonita Vista had its own wells, so it was not tied to the Corban water supply and was not suffering the same shortage.

The people of Corban, the parents of Corban, are planning to meet outside the gates of Bonita Vista at eight to protest the poisonings.