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