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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eyewitness
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an eyewitness/first-hand report (=from someone who saw what happened)
▪ Some were beaten and tortured according to first-hand reports from former prisoners.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
account
▪ Dozens of eyewitness accounts confirmed the existence of these discreet departures to destinations far from Kosovo.
▪ Here was an eyewitness account of Butch at the murder scene.
▪ It is probably based on an eyewitness account.
▪ The author also provides eyewitness accounts of the Kolno massacre.
▪ The official report echoes eyewitness accounts of fire on board shortly after takeoff from the Upper Heyford base in Oxfordshire.
▪ Investigators were reviewing physical evidence collected at the scene and information obtained from videotapes and eyewitness accounts.
report
▪ Unconfirmed eyewitness reports said the marshal was killed in what appeared to be a freak incident.
▪ Our final source of information about large airbursts is eyewitness reports.
▪ The sources of the eyewitness reports, then as now, are of course mostly from rural areas.
testimony
▪ This is consistent with recent studies on attention focusing in eyewitness testimony.
▪ Some implications of these results for eyewitness testimony and for the psychology of driving are considered.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Sheriff's detectives had no eyewitnesses to the shootings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Attempts r3,20,21 to determine from eyewitness reports typically give shallow trajectories, in the range 5-17°.
▪ Dozens of eyewitness accounts confirmed the existence of these discreet departures to destinations far from Kosovo.
▪ For centuries the Ensisheim fall remained the only case in which eyewitness reports of a fall were combined with preserved meteoritic material.
▪ He says it could be an engine failure but no eyewitnesses noticed a change in engine note.
▪ Here was an eyewitness account of Butch at the murder scene.
▪ Police documents also describe him as the suspect in the slaying of the lone eyewitness to one of those killings.
▪ Reliable eyewitness reports of actual events, when embedded in such a list, suffered a serious erosion of credibility.
▪ They further assert that this value is consistent with eyewitness accounts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eyewitness

Eyewitness \Eye"wit`ness\, n. One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of anything.

We . . . were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
--2 Pet. i. 16.

Wiktionary
eyewitness

n. Someone who sees an event and can report or testify about it. vb. To be present at an event, and see it

WordNet
eyewitness

n. a spectator who can describe what happened

Wikipedia
Eyewitness

Eyewitness or Eye witness may refer to:

  • Witness, someone who has knowledge about a crime or dramatic event through first-hand experience via any of the senses
    • Eyewitness memory
    • Eyewitness testimony
  • Eyewitness (TV series), natural history television series
  • Eye Witness (TV series), sci/fi and supernatural television series
  • Eyewitness (Royal Hunt album)
  • Eyewitness (Kayak album)
  • The pseudonym of writer Ernest Dunlop Swinton
  • Eyewitness (1956 film), a British film starring Donald Sinden
  • Eyewitness (1970 film), a film starring Mark Lester
  • Eyewitness (1981 film), a thriller starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Plummer
  • Eyewitness (1999 film), nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Documentary
  • Eyewitness Books
Eyewitness (Royal Hunt album)

Eyewitness is the seventh studio album released by the band Royal Hunt.

Eyewitness (TV series)

Eyewitness is a natural history television series produced by BBC and DK Vision. The series is based on the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Books series of children's books. Oxfordshire native Guy Dagul composes the theme music.

Eyewitness (1981 film)

'Eyewitness ' is a 1981 thriller film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich. It stars William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer and James Woods. The story involves a television news reporter and a janitor who team up to solve a murder.

Eyewitness (1999 film)

Eyewitness is a 1999 American short documentary film directed by Bert Van Bork. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The explored the lives of three artists forced to work in secret while living in Nazi death camps: Jan Komski, Dinah Gottliebova and Felix Nussbaum, and who witnessed and painted the horrors of the Holocaust.

Eyewitness (1956 film)

Eyewitness is a 1956 British thriller film directed by Muriel Box and starring Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Nigel Stock and Richard Wattis. It was made by the Rank Organisation.

Eyewitness (1970 film)

Eyewitness (also entitled Sudden Terror) is a 1970 British drama film directed by John Hough.

Eyewitness (Kayak album)

Eyewitness is an album by the Dutch progressive rock band Kayak. The original LP was released in 1981. The album was recorded 'live' (but without audience) in a recording studio, with some overdubs added later. To create a 'live' atmosphere, Kayak fans were invited later to cheer and clap to the already recorded songs. The CD release was transferred from the original tapes, so it doesn't have the audience participation. The album has three new songs: Eyewitness, Who's Fooling Who and Only You And I Know.

The line-up of the band didn't feature background singers Irene Linders and Katherine Lapthorne anymore. After this album, the band broke up, only to reincarnate in 1999.

Eyewitness (2016 TV series)

Eyewitness is an upcoming American drama television series set to air on USA Network. The series, which is based upon the Norwegian series Øyevitne, has been given a straight-to-series order with 10 episodes in January 2016.

Usage examples of "eyewitness".

In all the surviving record of official and private papers pertaining to the Continental Congress, there is only one member or eyewitness to events in Philadelphia in 1776 who wrote disparagingly of John Adams, and that was Adams writing long years afterward.

The New York police, meanwhile, had reported to Morgenthau that an eyewitness had been unearthed, a respectable businessman, who would attest that he saw Gotti standing on the sidewalk near Sparks Steak House as Castellano was being gunned down.

Contemptuous eyewitnesses described her very well as looking like a tin can on a shingle or a cheesebox on a raft.

Based on my eyewitness identification at the murder scene, the police got a search warrant right away and found Peter Garvey passed out in his house next door, wearing nothing but his underwear.

Dahl had been in the Haas home, that he had been there that day, that an eyewitness had seen him enter the house, that he had left a fingerprint on the telephone, that a neighbor had made a complaint about him to the police just days prior to the murders.

Given similarities to American 11 in hijacker seating and in eyewitness reports of tactics and weapons, as well as the contact between the presumed team leaders, Atta and Shehhi, we believe the tactics were similar on both flights.

As is often the case with rape, no eyewitnesses were present for the actual rape, but as far as rape allegations ever go, Broaddrick was, at the very least, an extremely credible witness.

A Polish Jewish immigrant hairdresser with a history of mental illness and a reported dislike of women, he fit the eyewitness descriptions, the disorganized personality, and the police descriptions.

Some are convinced that eyewitness testimony is reliable, that people do not make things up, that hallucinations or hoaxes on such a scale are impossible, and that there must be a long-standing, high-level government conspiracy to keep the truth from the rest of us.

Jessie Misskelley Junior stated that he did take part in the apprehension of the victims and that he was an eyewitness to the murders by Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols.

Unable to call Jessie and unwilling to call young Aaron Hutcheson, the prosecutors had no eyewitness to the crime.

The sheriff had already got wind of what was coming: many eyewitnesses, sworn statements, first-hand accounts -- all of them hostile.

A second eyewitness account, even if it contradicted the first and was growing more fantastic by the day, might be invaluable, especially since it named the three teenagers who were in custody.

From the reports of eyewitnesses it transpires that the seismic waves were accompanied by a violent atmospheric perturbation of cyclonic character.

The greedy swine had surely been taking a huge payoff from Jessyk, and was determined to have any eyewitnesses to their practices on Boniface removed forever.