Crossword clues for visor
visor
- Sun-blocking hat
- Sun screen?
- Sun screen
- Glare shield
- Type of tennis headgear
- Sunhat peak
- Poker player's headgear
- Glare blocker in a car
- Flap above a windshield
- Certain brim
- Card player's headwear, perhaps
- Cap part
- Baseball-cap feature
- Windshield flap
- Sunlight blocker
- Sunglasses alternative
- Sort of sun block
- Protection for face (or against glare)
- Protection for face
- Pope of the mid-100s
- Movable helmet piece
- Motorcycle helmet piece
- Medieval helmet attachment
- Knight's armour item
- It's flipped down to block the sun while driving
- It throws mad shade
- Helmet piece
- Helmet face protector
- Hat that shades your face but not your scalp
- Golfing gear
- Golfer's glare shield
- Golfer topper
- Golf-cap feature
- Golf course headwear
- Glare deterrent
- Glare blocker on a cap
- Gimme cap part
- Gimme cap feature
- Face protection
- Eyewear for Geordi La Forge
- Card dealer's hat
- Cap bill
- Biker helmet feature
- Baseball cap feature that blocks the sun
- Helmet part
- Cap feature
- Sunshade
- Golfer's accessory
- It has openings for a knight
- Golfer's wear
- Sun blocker
- It's lowered before a joust
- Dealer's wear
- Windshield flip-down
- Poker player's wear
- Baseball cap part
- Dealer's accessory
- A piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face
- A brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
- Eyeshade
- Sun protection
- Part of a casquette
- Kepi part
- Cap projection
- Bill of a sort
- Croupier's headgear
- Kepi feature
- Shield of a sort
- Windshield attachment
- Mask, very intriguingly, slipping on rogue initially
- Consultant drops notice in a flap
- Eyeshade? Guest has dropped it
- Eye shield
- One hides face as guest loses it
- Screen caller, picking out just what's needed
- Face protector
- Face protection from half a dozen special soldiers
- Peak on a cap
- Part of an armour helmet
- Eye protector
- Eye shade?
- Sun block
- Sun shade
- Sun shield
- Helmet feature
- Glare reducer
- Cap brim
- Golf accessory
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Visor \Vis"or\, n. [OE. visere, F. visi[`e]re, fr. OF. vis. See Visage, Vision.] [Written also visar, visard, vizard, and vizor.]
A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
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A mask used to disfigure or disguise. ``My very visor began to assume life.''
--Shak.My weaker government since, makes you pull off the visor.
--Sir P. Sidney. The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, viser, "front part of a helmet," from Anglo-French viser, Old French visiere "visor" (13c.), from vis "face" (see visage). Spelling shifted 15c. Meaning "eyeshade" is recorded from 1925.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it. 2 A mask used to disfigure or disguise. 3 The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A visor was used in conjunction with some Medieval war helmets such as the bascinet. The visor usually consisted of a hinged piece of steel that contained openings for breathing ("breaths") and vision. Visors protected the face during battle. Most knights or warriors who wore visors usually were spotted on horses during war, and more specifically in tournaments. The word beaver is sometimes used interchangeably with visor, as in Shakespeare's Hamlet, when Hamlet and Horatio are discussing the Ghost. Hamlet says: "Then saw you not his face?" to which Horatio responds "O yes, my lord. He wore his beaver up [i.e., his visor raised]".
Hundsgugel by Wendelin Boeheim.jpg|Early type of visor known as Klappvisier DSC02155.JPG|The prominent visor of a bascinet, c. 1400. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria close helm by Wendelin Boeheim.jpg|Double visor (first appeared for armets and close helms mat 20s of 16c) Visored Sallet by Wendelin Boeheim.jpg|Early Double Visored (Sallet transitional to close helm). The bevor and the forehead attached to the same pivot as the upper visor. Some version of this kind of sallet had additional nape protection under the tail.
Category:Headgear Category:Medieval helmets Category:Western plate armour
A visor (also spelled vizor) is a surface that protects the eyes, such as shading them from the sun or other bright light or protecting them from objects.
Nowadays many visors are transparent, but before strong transparent substances such as polycarbonate were invented, visors were opaque like a mask with small holes to see and breathe through, such as:
- The part of a helmet in a suit of armor that protects the eyes.
- A type of headgear consisting only of a visor and a band as a way to fasten it around the head.
- Any such vertical surface on any hat or helmet.
- Any such horizontal surface on any hat or helmet (called a peak in British English).
- A device in an automobile that the driver or front passenger can lower over part of the windshield to block the sun ( sun visor).
Some modern devices called visors are similar, for example:
- Visor (ice hockey)
Types of modern transparent visors include:
- The transparent or semi-transparent front part of a motorcycle crash helmet or police riotsquad helmets
- Safety faceshields for construction-type applications
- An eyeshield to protect the eyes from sunlight on an American football helmet
- A shield to protect the eyes from sunlight on a flight helmet or space suit
- Green eyeshades, formerly worn by accountants and others engaged in vision-intensive, detail-oriented occupations
A visor is a surface that protects the eyes.
A VISOR refers to a fictional device in Star Trek media.
Visor may also refer to:
- Visor (armor)
- Bow visor, a feature of some ships, particularly ferries
- ViSOR or Violent and Sex Offender Register
- Visor, a PDA series made by Handspring
Usage examples of "visor".
Maybe, I thought as I read this report, soldiers could wear a visor that intensified images through the reflection and amplification of available light and navigate in the darkness of a battlefield with as much confidence as if they were walking their sentry posts in broad daylight.
Slapping down his half visor, Bili uncased his axe, wishing for the umpteenth time that it was reliable Mahvros he bestrode, rather than this green, less than intelligent gelding.
A few spots of crimson now stained the mauve burka just below the mesh of the visor.
Only the microfilters in his visor kept him from making twice as many errors as he was already making.
Mason noted that they wore helmets, visors, and overalls with micromesh ring mail stitched in, and that one of them stood guard with a pump-action shotgun.
Brown holds one of the little cylinders close to his visor, and uses a stylus to poke at microswitches inside it.
Apart from the oddly shaped face just barely visible through the dark visor, the creature descending the ramp might almost have been a slightly misproportioned human.
Everything was built into the MHW and secured as tightly as the photochromic visor.
He fixed the light to his visor, grasped the pistolet in his teeth, and began the ascent.
He folded the cape up, slipped it into his pack, holstered the pistolet, clamped his light in his visor, reversed the orientor, picked his wife up in his arms, and started out.
He was an ugly, rattish man, this stowaway, and his eyes glared up from beneath the twisted visor of his shabby cap.
When the dogs were seated but the air system had only begun repressurizing the cabin, Piet Ricimer opened his visor.
He pulled his visor back down and began resurveying the orbital imagery, looking for cutoff points and assault landing zones.
Marla turned to look at Seeress Jenoset, whose stunned face was barely visible behind the visor in her helmet.
Had it not been for Design Toscano Historical Reproductions for Home and Garden, I might never have learned that the three parts of a sixteenth-century close helmet are the visor, the ventail, and the beaver.