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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
visually
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
visually/hearing/mentally etc impaired (=used to describe someone who cannot see, hear etc well)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
handicapped
▪ The incidents related in her story, however, are drawn from actual experiences of visually handicapped pupils.
▪ Specialised equipment and materials required for visually handicapped pupils can pose a storage problem.
▪ The skilful use of a piece of interesting technology by a visually handicapped pupil can become a source of pride rather than embarrassment.
▪ Décor can be used imaginatively and helpfully as an aid to location for visually handicapped pupils.
▪ Teachers can be made aware of the real challenges that visually handicapped pupils have to face.
▪ The specialist teacher may find that some visually handicapped pupils require direct support teaching sessions.
▪ For some visually handicapped children the amount of glare caused by various forms of lighting adds considerably to their difficulties.
▪ They are particularly relevant to the visually handicapped child in the first school years in an integrated setting.
impaired
▪ An important part of this work is the provision of cash grants to visually impaired people in need.
▪ It is, of course, necessary to check carefully and individually the size of type that a visually impaired pupil can discriminate.
▪ For example, in one case, an employer refused to hire a visually impaired applicant for the position of research analyst.
■ VERB
handicap
▪ A teacher who has visually handicapped pupils in the class will need to consider these recommendations and implement them as necessary.
impair
▪ Eve insisted that visually impaired visitors were allowed to keep the Braille guidebooks and would always replace them free of charge.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
visually/physically/mentally etc challenged
▪ And everywhere, blind and physically challenged skiers are testing themselves on the snow.
▪ So there are these three visually challenged yuppies at the zoo, checking out their first elephant.
▪ The organisation as a whole became sensitised to the many debates which faced women artists who were physically challenged.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Babies are still developing visually when they are born.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the garden, warm colors move toward the eye, visually shortening distances.
▪ Most important, keep it professional and visually clean.
▪ Sometimes a self-absorbed child is less sensitive visually as well.
▪ The eyes of trilobites include some very sophisticated structures that show they were far from primitive visually.
▪ There is also the problem that some letters are visually very similar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
visually

mid-15c., from visual + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
visually

adv. By means of sight.

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WordNet
visually

adv. with respect to vision; "visually distorted"

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Usage examples of "visually".

He had to visually check the digital photoscan of the painting, to ensure that the colours and textures were all in focus.

To make the philtre visually engaging, Tre had deformed the two basic polyhedra into a pair of shapes which resembled a skinny chicken and a fat dodo bird.

In reassembly, they tracked their vessels by code instead of visually.

Brian took up position ten feet behind and took out his pen, swapping out the point and checking visually to make sure he was ready.

They transmitted plenty of pictures, which were as spectacularly unenlightening as they were visually astounding.

Still, if a certain amount of healthy, visually stimulated autoeroticism was okay, I also knew it would hurt her terribly if I ever had a real-life affair.

The article read very well, and the photo of Regina Stewart and her children juxtaposed against the picture of the dumping ground was visually effective.

With trembling fingers, she clicked on fight, locked the door, tilted a chair under the doorknob, slid gun out of its holster, and visually surveyed the room.

Washburn has reported that infant baboons and other young primates appear to be born with only three inborn fears-of falling, snakes, and the dark-corresponding respectively to the dangers posed by Newtonian gravitation to tree-dwellers, by our ancient enemies the reptiles, and by mammalian nocturnal predators, which must have been particularly terrifying for the visually oriented primates.

Unlike the previously described technique of attending to a visually induced afterimage, this method entails mentally creating and sustaining an image of a physical object, based either on seeing it or on hearing of its characteristics.

For a few beats his gaze swept the four searchers arrayed before him, visually castigating all of them with equal severity.

I wondered if my teammates or the coaches could smell anything or detect visually a trace of modest smog.

It was still belching the strange mist and was so close that he could visually make out what looked like a Normal Suited figure, standing erect on the upper deck, firing awaywith a rifle, of all things.

Muth's collaborator, John Kuramoto, has used words with the same stark simplicity as Muth's own brushwork and the book is a subsequent delight of understatement, both visually and in terms of its text.

We inherit, when we are born, abilities for many different kinds of functions, for example, to perceive visually, auditorily, somesthetically, and by means of olfaction and taste.