Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the sense of sight: a visual organ; visual receptors on the retina.
- adj. Seen or able to be seen by the eye; visible: a visual presentation; a design with a dramatic visual effect.
- adj. Optical.
- adj. Done, maintained, or executed by sight only: visual navigation.
- adj. Having the nature of or producing an image in the mind: a visual memory of the scene.
- adj. Of or relating to a method of instruction involving sight.
- n. A picture, chart, or other presentation that appeals to the sense of sight, used in promotion or for illustration or narration. Often used in the plural: an ad campaign with striking visuals; trying to capture a poem in a cinematic visual.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who is eye-minded, that is, one who thinks, remembers, imagines, etc., predominantly in terms of sight.
- Of or pertaining to sight; relating to vision; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; optic: as, the visual nerve.
- Visible; perceptible by the sight.
- Resulting from the eye; produced by a look: as, visual influences.
Wiktionary
- adj. Related to or affecting the vision.
- n. Any element of something that depends on sight.
- n. An image; a picture; a graphic.
- n. in the plural All the visual elements of a multi-media presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
- n. advertising A preliminary sketch.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing.
- adj. rare That can be seen; visible.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or using sight
- adj. visible.
Etymologies
- From Old French, from Late Latin visualis ("of sight"), from Latin visus ("sight"), from videre ("to see"), past participle visus; see visage. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Late Latin vīsuālis, from Latin vīsus, sight, from past participle of vidēre, to see; see vision. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And then we will calculate what we call a visual skin print, which is just like a finger print, except it's the impact of the light on your skin.”
“CHILD: Well, he was in what they called visual presentation.”
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Julia Child Dispenses Her 'Kitchen Wisdom' - December 28, 2000
“Fifty percent of proceeds will go to African charities, Mr. Peter said, and he hopes the book will be the beginning of what he describes as a visual movement that will "create awareness" and "rebrand" destitute countries.”
“The disputes concerning the theory of vision had very much divided the ancient philosophers; some of them imagining that vision was caused by the reception of rays into the eye; while a great many others thought it more agreeable to nature, that certain emanations, which they called visual rays, should flow from the eye to the object.”
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease
“(French link) have put together what they call a visual rumour roundup for the 4th gen iPhone.”
“I cannot overemphasize the importance of any device to any content over any combination of networks enabled by Cisco's technology architecture approach, but it also is important that video will play in not only communications to life but also in loading networks, what we call visual networking," Cisco CEO John Chambers said last month in Cisco's quarterly earnings call.”
“NVIDIA IS DRUMMING up support for for what it calls visual and high-performance computing by offering cash to companies through a GPU Ventures Program.”
“I express myself best through what I call my visual voice.”
“I cannot overemphasize the importance of any device to any content over any combination of networks enabled by Cisco's technology architecture approach but it also is important that video will play in not only communications to life but also in loading networks, what we call visual networking," Cisco CEO John Chambers said last month in Cisco's quarterly earnings call.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘visual’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
limit, pack, automatic, HTTP, database, poi, event, coverage, core, hibernate, function, product and 310 more...
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Dictionary words
Words from the names of various dictionaries.
dictionary, college, heritage, Webster's, American, rhyming, compendious, English, language, Oxford, new, Wordnik and 56 more...
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[Open] Anadromes
An anadrome forms a different word (or phrase) when spelled backwards. Anadromes are also called volvograms, reversgrams, heteropalindromes, backwords, semordnilap or emordnilaps, and, regrettably...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Lifehacking
Start with the effect, the what; signal-patch known-belief spirit. "Write my program, routine me." New cue vs brand loyalty. Ritual Ceremony Design Technologies, Inc.
confusion, misdirection, fractionation, disequilibrium, relaxation, repetition, impassioned, intensity, suddenly, shock, concentration, focus and 118 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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luckylime's Words
cacophony, cascade, trigger, crunch, vellum paper, arduous, luminescent, voluminous, euphoric, bucolic, diaphanous, danger and 162 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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words about light
words about light, about qualities of light, about ways light is transmitted, about vision and lack thereof.
opacity, aureate, translucent, vivid, visual, blinding, dimness, brightness, lumens, luminous, fresnel, illumination and 27 more...
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gorman's list
clay, marie, mary schmidt, linda kuhaupt, fluency, meaning, reading recovery, visual, running record, comprehension, structure, stamina and 1 more...
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Q+N
organic, visual, transforming, evolving, language, typography, graphic, mapping, live, sound, contrast, interaction and 9 more...
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Tweets
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