See unseen on Wiktionary
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"text": "Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.",
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"Terms with Turkish translations"
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"word": "sight unseen"
},
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"word": "unsight unseen"
}
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{
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"2": "ungesehen",
"t": "unseen"
},
"expansion": "German ungesehen (“unseen”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"ref": "1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 9, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:",
"text": "You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:",
"text": "Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"Not seen or discovered; invisible."
],
"links": [
[
"invisible",
"invisible"
]
],
"tags": [
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},
{
"glosses": [
"Unskilled; inexperienced."
],
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"not-comparable"
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"ref": "c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:",
"text": "I to the world am like a drop of water\nThat in the ocean seeks another drop,\nWho, falling there to find his fellow forth,\nUnseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 67:",
"text": "The advent of COVID passports, so soon after increased check-in bureaucracy post-Brexit, brought major logistical ramifications to St Pancras International, of a kind unseen at any other major station in Britain.",
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"Not hitherto noticed; unobserved."
],
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}
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},
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nevidim",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "невидим"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nezabeležim",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "незабележим"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "uset"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "ongezien"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "nevidita"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "unaxavi",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "უნახავი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "uxilavi",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "უხილავი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "arnaxuli",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "არნახული"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "šeumčneveli",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "შეუმჩნეველი"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "ungasaiƕans",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍈𐌰𐌽𐍃"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "aóratos",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "αόρατος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ádēlos",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "ἄδηλος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "aphanḗs",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "ἀφανής"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "aïdnós",
"sense": "not seen",
"tags": [
"Epic",
"poetic"
],
"word": "ἀϊδνός"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "adŕśya",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "अदृश्य"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "alakh",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "अलख"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "gan fheiceáil"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "invīsus"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "whakapeke"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "koropuku"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "usett"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "usett"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nevídimyj",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "неви́димый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nezrímyj",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "незри́мый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nezaméčennyj",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "незаме́ченный"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "adṛṣṭa",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "अदृष्ट"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "not seen",
"word": "görünmez"
}
],
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}
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"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/iːn",
"Rhymes:English/iːn/2 syllables",
"Terms with Hebrew translations"
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"name": "prefix"
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},
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"English terms with usage examples"
],
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"text": "What has been seen cannot be unseen.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"word": "unsee"
}
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],
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"past"
]
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}
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"text": "I have French and Latin unseens this summer.",
"type": "example"
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],
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],
[
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},
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{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "examination on material not previously seen",
"word": "אנסין"
}
],
"word": "unseen"
}
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