unseen
Use Unseen in a sentence
adjective
1.
not seen; unperceived; unobserved; invisible.
2.
recognized or comprehended without prior study, as a written text or musical score.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | not observed or perceived; invisible |
| 2. | (of passages of writing) not previously seen or prepared |
| —n | |
| 3. | chiefly (Brit) a passage, not previously seen, that is presented to students for translation |
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Unseen
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Nuns sang unseen beyond the altar and people flocked to hear their hidden choirs.
Wafting upward, they're whipped suddenly into horizontal lines by some unseen hand.
Infrared also brought to light many other details, including previously unseen glyph figures.
Step on the rubberized mat, an unseen pressure sensor sends a signal to a mechanism at the hinge and the door opens reflexively.
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