单词 | visual |
释义 | visualadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Of beams: Coming, proceeding, or directed from the eye or sight. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > visual ray visual1412 visive1622 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 1697 Þat of oure siȝt þe stremys visual May nat be-holde, nor I-sen at al,..How Appollo is in his chare schynende. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1362 It fareth with us in this case, as with those who would see a thing very farre distant; for of necessitie the visual beames of his sight doe faile before they can reach thereto. 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion Pref. sig. A3v Trusting Authorities at second hand, and rash collecting..from visuall beam's refracted through anothers eye. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 163 For inward light alas Puts forth no visual beam. View more context for this quotation b. visual line n. the direct line from the eye to the object or point of vision; the line of sight. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > line of sight line of sight1559 visual line?a1560 ray1625 eyeline1664 line of collimation1687 sight-line1859 ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xx. sig. F ij v Agayne my line visuall proceeding from D to H the subtill notche in the subtendente side of the angle, extendeth to my fifte staffe G. 1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 116 By meanes of the shadowes, or visuall lines, representing the saide shadowes. 1667 Sir R. Moray in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 474 The Visual line that passeth from the Eye to the upper-side of the Mark. 1755 Dict. Arts & Sci. at Perspective In drawing a perspective figure, where many lines come together, you may..draw the diagonals in red; the visual lines in black. 1850 J. P. Nichol Archit. Heavens ii. iv. 135 Merely to indicate that they lie in almost the same visual line, or that their proximity is optical only, and not real. c. visual ray n. a ray proceeding from the eye to the object seen (cf. visual beam above), or in later use from the object to the eye. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > visual ray ray1531 eye-beam1583 visual ray1625 visual1726 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. vi. 154 The visuall Ray wherein the sight is carried, is alwaies a right line. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 620 The Aire, No where so cleer, sharp'nd his visual ray To objects distant farr. View more context for this quotation 1755 Dict. Arts & Sci. at Perspective The point of sight..is the point where all the other visual rays..unite. 1780 Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 649 The great and varying refractions of the visual rays. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 710 Visual rays, are those which, passing through the transparent plane, render original objects visible. Principal visual ray, is that which passes through the axis or centre of the eye. 1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. 203 If the visual ray from the upper extremity A′ coincide with the visual ray from the upper extremity of the other. 1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 475 The instrument will give us the angle formed by the visual ray with our base-line. 2. a. Of power or faculty: Pertaining or relating to, concerned or connected with, sight or vision. visual acuity, sharpness of vision; spec. as measured or expressed in terms of a definite scale (see quot. 1974). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] perspective?a1475 optical1570 optic1600 visual1603 specular1656 speculative1656 visional1790 visionary1814 ocular1831 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [noun] > clear- or sharp-sightedness quicknessa1398 clearness1535 eagle eye1567 perspicacity1606 quicksightedness1625 piercingnessa1628 sharpsightedness1647 edgea1682 clear-sightednessa1691 acuity1866 visual acuity1889 V.A.1932 stereo-acuity1942 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1345 As the one [sc. the sun] kindles, bringeth foorth and stirreth up the visuall power and vertue of the sense. 1798 W. Wordsworth Peter Bell 918 The Spirits of the Mind Are busy..Upon the rights of visual sense Usurping. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. i. 13 That part of the Brain which is the instrument of our Visual Consciousness. 1889 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. VII. 665/2 Comparative researches upon the visual acuity of different parts of the retina. 1938 R. L. Rea Neuro-ophthalmol. iv. 86 In the early stages [of papillœdema] there may be..full central visual acuity. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VII. 104/1 A visual acuity of unity indicates a power of resolving detail subtending one minute of arc at the eye; a visual acuity of two indicates a resolution of one-half minute..of arc. b. visual purple [translating German sehpurpur (apparently first used by W. Kühne 1877, in Verh. d. Naturhist.-med. Verein zu Heidelberg I. 484)] : = rhodopsin n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > substance > pigment > [noun] > human or animal pigments > purple > rhodopsin rhodophane1878 rhodopsin1878 visual purple1878 lumirhodopsin1950 metarhodopsin1950 prelumirhodopsin1963 1877 Nature 1 Feb. 296/1 These first observations of Kühne on the vision-purple (Sehpurpur), as he terms it.] 1878 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) iii. ii. 415 For the restoration of the visual purple, after it has been destroyed by light, the maintenance of the circulation of the blood through the tissues of the eye is not essential. 1921 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 92 232 A highly dilute visual purple may suffice for the requirements of photopic vision. 1953 Sci. News 30 116 Although as many as six visual pigments have been recognized in different species, only one, visual purple, has been obtained from the human retina. 1983 Guardian 4 Aug. 17/2 Retinaldehyde..is present in the retina of the eye combined with the visual pigment known as visual purple. 3. a. Of organs: Endowed with the power of sight; having the function of producing vision. Cf. optic adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > [adjective] oculate1549 ocularc1600 visual1626 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §400 An Eye..hath beene thrust forth, so as it hanged a pretty distance by the Visuall Nerue. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 415 Michael..then purg'd with Euphrasie and Rue The visual Nerve [of Adam], for he had much to see. View more context for this quotation 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub xi. 200 The Virtue of the visual Nerve, which every little Accident shakes out of Order. 1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 228 An assemblage of several organs, all concurring to the production of a single result, constitutes an apparatus,—the visual apparatus, the digestive apparatus [etc.]. 1874 tr. E. Lommel Nature of Light (ed. 4) 1 The visual organ, like every other special sense, possesses a peculiar form of sensibility. 1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish iii. 121 Each of these visual pyramids consists of an axial structure—the visual rod invested by a sheath. b. Of the eye, or in phrases denoting this, as visual orb. Chiefly poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] eyeeOE the fleshly eyec1175 balla1400 window1481 glazier1567 light1580 crystal1592 orb1594 glass1597 optic1601 twinkler1605 lampa1616 watchera1616 wink-a-peeps1615 visive organa1652 ogle1673 peeper1691 goggle?1705 visual orb1725 orbit1727 winker1734 peep?1738 daylights?1747 eyewinker1808 keeker1808 glimmer1814 blinker1816 glim1820 goggler1821 skylight1824 ocular1825 mince pie1857 saucer1858 mince1937 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 90 Neptune..Afflicts the chief, t'avenge his Giant son Whose visual orb Ulysses robb'd of light. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 454 Urg'd by some present God, they swift let fall The pointed torment on his visual ball. 1801 Lusignan IV. 177 [She] complained that the light,..hurt the visual optic. 1876 L. Morris Epic of Hades ii. 143 By night, When visual eyes are blind. 4. a. Of knowledge: Attained or obtained by sight or vision.In early use apparently contrasted with book-knowledge. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > obtained by sight visual1651 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋74 Mathiolus,..and other Herbalists, have hitherto been busied only about the features, and visuall knowledge of Plants, but all of them..describe vertues out of Dioscorides. 1903 J. Conrad & F. M. Hueffer Romance iv. v. 270 These..were the only two men of whom she could be said to have more than a visual knowledge. b. Carried out or performed by means of vision. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > carried out by sight visual1849 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. x. 155 The visual perception of His Form would be a small blessing. 1882 R. A. Proctor Familiar Sci. Stud. 8 The visual test however is independent. c. Of impressions, etc.: Received through the sense of sight; based upon something seen. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > perceived by sight visual1833 1833 C. Bell Hand (1834) 327 Were the eye fixed in the head..we should still be capable of comparing the visual impression with the experience of the body. 1840 J. S. Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 103 The visual ideas, which thus become our main symbols of tangible objects. 1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (1878) iii. ii. 397 These two things we will briefly distinguish as visual sensations and visual judgments. 1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight iii. 37 All parts of the retina are not equally sensitive to visual impressions. 5. In general use. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adjective] > in relation to object visual1812 1812 R. Woodhouse Elem. Treat. Astron. xi. 91 Certain smaller corrections belonging..to some change in the position of the poles of the earth: or to causes merely visual and optical. 1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 158 It is indeed quite conceivable that, in beings of another race, the visual scale may be much larger than ours. 6. a. That is an object of vision or sight; capable of being seen; perceptible, visible. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] i-seyenlyeOE iseneOE senec1175 seyelyc1225 visiblea1340 seena1398 sighty1398 seeablea1425 spectablec1440 sightfulc1480 sightly1532 appearingc1550 discernable1561 eyely1561 discoverable1572 spectible1581 observable1589 visive1598 aspectable1612 observant1615 perspicable1621 perspiculative1623 remarkable1623 eyeable1633 visory1633 appearable1651 dignoscible1671 discernible1678 traceable1748 noticeable1753 visual1757 distinguishable1762 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §27. 114 A clear and settled idea of visual beauty. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iv. §15. 143 Among many remarkable particulars that attended his first perceptions, and judgments on visual objects. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 295 The second commandment expressly makes the worshipping of God in or before a visual image of him..idolatry. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxv. 313 Refraction, with its preternatural augmentation of the visual hemisphere, revisited us. 1869 J. Tyndall in Fortn. Rev. 1 Feb. 237 Of all the visual waves emitted by the sun, the shortest and smallest are those which correspond to the colour blue. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. vi. 223 The spectrum embraces three classes of rays—the thermal, the visual, and the chemical. 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 240 Which from the visual aspect of colour should appear almost black. b. Of actions, conditions, etc. Also, characterized by visibility. ΚΠ 1828 T. Carlyle Goethe in Foreign Rev. 2 117 Everything has form, everything has visual existence; the poet's imagination bodies forth the forms of things unseen. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 111 That this so solid-looking material world..is a visual and tactual Manifestation of God's power and presence. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 145 The inclination may be seen by the eye, by bringing it [the wall] into visual contact with the upright pilasters. 1867 G. F. Chambers Descr. Astron. i. i. 8 The entire period required by a spot to make a whole visual rotation. c. Of signalling or a signal. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > of signals visual1876 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 424/1 Visual signalling was formerly carried on by semaphores. 1895 Outing 26 396/2 Visual signaling embraces flags, heliograph, torch, flash light, etc. 1906 Times 20 Aug. 5/1 I proceeded as far..as ensured my being able to use visual signals to the signal station. d. visual aid n. illustrative matter designed to supplement written or spoken information; spec. in Education with reference to pictures, models, films, etc., as an aid to learning. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > teaching aids > specific abacusa1387 fescue1513 wand1589 feasetraw1595 pointer1658 sandboard1817 letter card1819 object chart1866 teaching specimen1881 realia1894 filmstrip1896 visual aid1911 flash card1923 flannelgraph1944 teaching machine1958 manipulative1965 kit1968 1911 P. Monroe Cycl. Educ. V. 734/2 The last century of schoolroom practice has been marked by a great increase in the use of natural objects, models, pictures, maps, charts, and other visual aids. 1938 Rep. Physical Educ. & Film (Brit. Film Inst.) 1 The function of the film in education has been defined as that of a visual aid. 1958 Economist 29 Nov. 764/1 The visual aids which the party's television programme used to good effect. 1967 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 14 Mar. (1970) 497 In one room they were using visual-aid machines for faster reading. 1980 E. Blishen Nest of Teachers i. ii. 11 That most familiar of visual aids, an extremely tatty blackboard. e. visual display (Computers) = display n. 1c; visual display unit, a device for displaying on its screen data stored in a computer, and usually incorporating a keyboard for manipulating the data; abbreviated VDU n., vdu, variant of VDU n. at V n. Initialisms 2. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > peripherals > [noun] > monitor colour monitor1941 visual display unit1954 computer monitor1963 computer screen1966 VDU1968 VDT1975 monitor1976 Multisync1986 1954 Jrnl. Assoc. Computing Machinery 1 57/1 Cathode ray tube equipment for providing external visual displays of information stored internally in the computer. 1967 M. Klerer & G. A. Korn Digital Computer User's Handbk. i. 77 The importance of the use of machine-produced graphs and other types of visual displays can hardly be over emphasized. 1969 Computers & Humanities 4 83 For those interested in on-line text manipulation, there is special temptation in newer devices like cathode ray tubes (CRTs) or visual displays, or ‘scopes’, as they are variously called. 1971 J. Anderson in B. de Ferranti Living with Computer vii. 59 With..the introduction..of visual display units..there has been a resurgence of interest in applying such techniques to medical recording. 1977 R.A.F. News 11 May 7/2 When can we have our visual display unit? 1983 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 July 271 Most of the comments relating to paper records apply to visual displays for data entry. 1984 Times 16 Nov. 12/4 The latest scare comes from reports of women who worked on visual display units (VDUs) during pregnancy and went on to deliver handicapped babies or suffer miscarriages. 7. a. Of the nature of a mental vision; produced or occurring as a picture in the mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] imaginary1594 imaginal1638 visual1817 imagic1937 imagy1937 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > imagined or visualized presenta1393 conceivedc1425 imaginate1533 conceited1543 imaginedc1550 surmised1578 coined1582 brain-spun1595 brain-born1596 fustian1601 brain-bred1606 humoured1613 imaged1718 visual1817 visualized1817 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. iv. 76 The change of one visual image for another involves in itself no absurdity. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 88 Let the reader try to make a visual scene of it as he can. 1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude x. 192 When we are thinking or talking of a person, we recall some visual image of that person. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1876) i. v. 46 The deeper is the sense of incompetence even to imagine as a visual conception the mass of human beings who have tenanted it. b. Carrying or conveying a mental vision or image. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [adjective] > conveying to the mind representativea1475 projectivea1839 visual1868 1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) xiii. 469 The Greek Catalogue is charged throughout with what I may call local colour and visual epithets; epithets which..raise up a prospect or scene before the mental eye of a reader or a hearer. B. n. 1. A visual ray: see A. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > visual ray ray1531 eye-beam1583 visual ray1625 visual1726 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture III. 2/2 Certain Rays which minister to the sight..are called Visuals. 1780 Philos. Trans. 1779 (Royal Soc.) 69 649 The quantity of effects and of errors in the visuals proceeding from this last cause must be very different at different times. 2. = visualist n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > image held in memory > [noun] > person with visual memory visual1886 visualist1895 1886 Mind 11 415 This division of men into visuals, audiles, motiles and indifferents, as we may respectively call them, if of great interest and importance. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 440 These variations depend..upon the question whether the patients are ‘auditives’ or ‘visuals’. 3. A visual image or display, a picture; spec. the visual element of a film or television production. Usually plural. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun] vision1910 video1935 visual1951 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > visual element of film visual1951 1951 Brit. Kinematogr. XIX. 110/1 A good deal has been done by..‘visuals’. 1959 Times 4 Mar. 11/7 Exposition is particularly difficult on television—it gets confused by the visuals and the speaker's loose words. 1961 Listener 19 Oct. 622/3 As the commentator's voice announced that allocations for shelters by the U.S. Government had been currently increased 700 per cent, we saw a visual of President Kennedy roaring with laughter. 1966 J. Derrick Teaching Eng. to Immigrants vii. 229 The Language Master..is a new transistorized machine into which can be fed visuals and reading matter on long cards. 1972 Observer 16 Apr. 34/6 Written entries..should be typed, visuals (a maximum of 3ft square) carefully packed. 1974 ‘D. Craig’ Dead Liberty xxi. 125 The Finance lads liked your economics piece... We're getting some graphs and other visuals done. 1984 Times 23 Jan. 7/1 There is more porn in the [cinema] subtitles than in the visuals. Compounds Of or pertaining to vision in relation to the object of sight; = optic adj. 5, optical n. 3. Chiefly in special collocations. visual angle n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > visual angle optic angle1709 visual angle1710 1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Visual-angle, is the same with the Optick-Angle. ?1790 J. Imison School of Arts (ed. 2) 205 The Visual or Optic Angle, is that which is contained under the two right lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the eye. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xii. 325 To-day's dinner subtends a larger visual angle than yesterday's revolution. 1873 W. Lees Acoustics ii. iv. 66 The size of an object depends upon the magnitude of the visual angle. visual axis n. ΚΠ 1874 tr. G. Hartwig Aerial World xiii. 198 If the sun rises, the visual axis sinks, and with it the rainbow. visual field n. ΚΠ 1880 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 169 He perceives correctly the position of objects in the visual field. 1927 B. Russell Anal. Matter xii. 111 The sort of relation that will not do is illustrated if we take xy = zw to mean that xy and zw have the same apparent dimensions in the visual field of a certain observer. 1961 G. E. M. Anscombe tr. L. Wittgenstein Notebks. 1914–16 45 What is a uniformly coloured part of my visual field composed of? visual focus n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > focal length or point focus1664 focus1666 focal distance1684 focal point1692 burning-point1698 short focusa1830 visual focus1837 1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 63 What may be called the visual focus of a lens, or its distance from an object upon which we have adjusted its focus as a magnifier. 1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 156 The making of the actinic and visual foci coincident. visual point n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > emission of light, radiation > [noun] > meeting point focus1664 visual point1679 focal point1713 chemical focus1841 point focus1908 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] sightc1515 standing point1606 station1659 aspect1660 point of view1701 viewpoint1839 visual point1842 standpoint1843 eye-point1875 1679 J. Moxon Math. made Easie (at cited word) The Visual Point in Perspective,..is a point in the Horizontal Line, wherein all the Occular Rays unite. [Hence in Phillips, Harris, etc.]. 1755 Dict. Arts & Sci. at Perspective Let the object you intend to delineate..be placed also on the right-hand of the visual point. 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Visual Point, the point of vision from which an object is viewed, synonymous with the point of sight. visual range n. ΚΠ 1953 R. Chisholm Cover of Darkness iii. 36 Reading the faces of cathode-ray tubes was a small part of the Observer's task. By description and instruction he had to get his Pilot to visual range. 1965 Observer 31 Oct. 1/1 ‘Visual range’—the distance one can see along the runway—is measured and passed to the pilot. Draft additions September 2018 visual effect n. chiefly Film and Television (originally) a scenic or optical illusion created on set using camerawork, stunts, pyrotechnics, props, etc. (see special effect n. at special adj., adv., and n. Compounds 2); (now chiefly) such an illusion created in post-production using computer software (as distinct from a mechanical special effect created on set); usually in plural; frequently attributive.In plural abbreviated VFX. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > [noun] effect1838 special effect1907 visual effect1952 optical1953 FX1960 VFX1995 1952 Sight & Sound July 15/1 The other great visual effect, Birnam Woods coming to Dunsinane, the leafy tree-tops..moving implacably above a ground mist. 1984 J. Imes Special Visual Effects xi. 175 Perhaps the most dramatic visual effects are those of explosions, fire, lightning, and smoke. These effects are called pyrotechnics. 1996 N.Y. Times 30 June h11/5 Industrial Light and Magic..estimated the costs at about $150,000 for each visual effect. 2007 R. Morton Close Encounters of Third Kind xxiii. 253 Steven needed to split the majority of his post-production time between editing and the visual effects work. 2017 Scotsman (Nexis) 16 Aug. Junior 2D artist—visual effects. What do they do? They help artists produce all the whizzy visual effects (VFX). Draft additions December 2021 visual art n. (often in plural, as visual arts) one of the creative arts intended to be appreciated by sight, such as painting, sculpture, film, etc.; (as a mass noun) these arts collectively (often as contrasted with literature and music).Cf. fine art n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] arts of imitation1638 design1638 art1668 fine arts1686 imitative arts1753 designation1796 fine art1804 beaux arts1821 visual art1857 machine art1945 picturedom1945 1857 Manch. Courier 17 Oct. 9/5 The fine arts I intend to be understood in the widest sense of the expression, as including not only the visual arts—sculpture, architecture, and painting. 1918 Fine Arts Jrnl. 36 39/2 Painting is a visual art, an appeal to the soul through the sense of sight. 1993 This Mag. Mar. 21/2 Henry's newfound interest in visual art also signifies spiritual growth. 2015 New Yorker 23 Feb. 53 (advt.) Rivera's large painted murals..made ‘Muralism’ a key turning point in the visual arts. Draft additions December 2021 visual artist n. an artist who works in (a) visual art. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > artist craftsman?1529 artsman1591 artist1608 crafter1643 visual artist1902 painter-stainer1909 1902 Boston Daily Globe 20 Aug. 7/3 The photographers..have steadily traveled along the lines of beauty in pictorial expression which have been trodden by the visual artists on canvas and paper. 2021 Yukon News (Nexis) 11 July Amy Ball, another finalist, is a visual artist... Ball works in several mediums including performance, installation, text, print making and film making. Draft additions September 2022 visual impairment n. decreased ability to see; partial or severe impairment of sight; (also) an instance of this. ΚΠ 1868 Med. Press & Circular 30 Dec. 548/1 There is no ptosis, strabismus, or iritic adhesions, or visual impairment of any kind. 1953 Rev. Educ. Res. 23 478 Kirby surveyed by questionnaire the kind and degree of visual impairment in children enrolled in 600 of the 675 special classes for the partially seeing in the United States. 2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 13 May d9/1 It was a touch tour, a 35-year-old program that allows those with visual impairments..to don disposable gloves and explore selected works..when the museum is closed to the public. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1920; most recently modified version published online September 2022). < |
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