Definition of invisible in English:

invisible

adjective ɪnˈvɪzɪb(ə)lɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l

1Unable to be seen.
this invisible gas is present to some extent in every home
Example sentencesExamples
- Cctv works in the dark by beaming invisible infrared light around the area to be filmed and then using special cameras which can pick up an image.
- From the side of his vision, Rowan saw another dark elf emerge from the smooth wall, an invisible spell he concluded had kept it from sight.
- Dark matter is invisible to the telescopes, and you only detect its presence by the gravitational effect it has on light beams passing by.
- Carbon monoxide is often known as the silent killer as the gas is invisible and has no smell or taste.
- Dark matter is an invisible form of mass that comprises most of the matter in the universe.
- Air is invisible because the tiny molecules of nitrogen, oxygen and other gases that make up air are so small, our eyes cannot see them.
- The flatness of the universe indicates that most of the matter in it is invisible, or dark.
- Any microscopic reduction, certainly invisible to the naked eye, is cancelled out by bulges wherever elastane cuts into flesh.
- The gas was invisible, and without taste, without smell.
- They have already made major breakthroughs in the study of dark matter - the invisible material which scientists believe makes up most of the universe.
- He also describes a new goal: to see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight.
- At bottom the expression most apt to render what I felt is this: God was present, though invisible; he fell under no one of my senses, yet my consciousness perceived him.
- This led to the proposition that most of the mass in a galaxy was low luminosity mass of some kind, and this invisible mass was called dark matter.
- Dark energy, an invisible kind of energy, tends to make the universe expand, so its effects become more pronounced with time.
- The broadness of the emission lines is assumed to be a sign of great turbulence in the invisible gas surrounding the galaxy.
- Radon is an invisible gas found in certain types of rock and soil, which can cause cancer if it seeps into houses and is breathed in over prolonged periods.
- Gas-detecting devices currently used by investigators can detect the presence of gas which is invisible to the naked eye but not the source of the leak.
- It's tricky to tell a story on TV about an invisible gas that might be injected deep underground sometime in the distant future.
- The style was bound up with a very unclear theory of invisible rays, in some ways analogous to the ‘lines of force’ that were postulated by the Futurists.
- This gas is completely invisible to human eyes, but because of its temperature, it is visible by its X-ray emission.
Synonyms
unnoticeable, undetectable, indistinguishable, indiscernible, unapparent, inappreciable, inaudible, impalpable, unobtrusive, impossible to detect
1. 1.1 Concealed from sight; hidden.
  he lounged in a doorway, invisible in the dark
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dezra herself had led them from the Lady into a seemingly invisible cave, its entrance completely concealed along the cliff side.
  It is a proscenium theatre, but the proscenium arch is made almost invisible by its dark colour, uniting the audience and actor in a single room.
  It had invisible pockets on the insides to conceal small weapons.
  He was dressed in cool tones, a brown that was almost blue, with a dark red thread near invisible beneath the fabric.
  As she looked around in her dark, almost invisible room, she noticed that the clock displayed the time of four o'clock in the morning.
  It was nearing nighttime now, and the ebon coloration of the building coupled with the equally dark landscape rendered it invisible after dusk.
  Alex had been found hiding in the boys changing rooms rambling on about something invisible in the dark, something that had killed Lizzie and he couldn't stop it.
  The large, dark tabby was almost invisible under dim light, despite his four white feet.
  The glass doors were invisible under the dark curtains Michael had decorated the living room with.
  Rine muttered under her breath and waved her hand, and the orange flames turned a dark blue, almost invisible against the dark tree roots and casting no light at all.
  Against a dark backdrop, invisible footlights pick out Paganini's lithe silhouette, sheathed in a formal black suit.
  Next-door Nepal offers a case study of vulgar tourism - Kathmandu is so choked with dark brown smog that the Everest is invisible on some days.
  For the video projection the frame is not the surface of the wall but the dark invisible space between the projector and the wall.
  Riley buried the pen into his desk, the tip snapping off and flying off to some dark invisible corner.
  His hair was scattered over his forehead and ears, his mouth was loose, his eyes almost invisible in their dark shadows.
  She looked again at the nearly invisible church against the dark night sky.
  There were thousands of people up in those dark, invisible balconies.
  As it was, the entry was far from gracious and in the dark, the invisible little television monitor that hangs from the ceiling got a well deserved thump from a large western head for its troubles.
  I sat down for a while, looking out at the invisible ocean until my eyes grew accustomed to the dark and then together we picked our way back across the crooked, misshapen rocks towards the beach.
  Synonyms
  not visible, unseeable
  undetectable, indiscernible, indistinguishable, inconspicuous, unnoticeable, imperceptible
  unseen, unnoticed, unobserved, hidden, concealed, obscured, out of sight, secret
2. 1.2 Treated as if unable to be seen; ignored or not taken into consideration.
  before 1971 women artists were pretty well invisible
  Example sentencesExamples
  Because, she knew, home was where they were going to ignore her; home was where she was as invisible as a pedestrian along a road at night.
  The feeling that they are invisible, forgotten and ignored runs deep.
  There have been many moments in life when I really wished I was invisible, because the way I looked was drawing me attention I didn't want.
  How come they were so invisible to people who wanted to sing the same old song about the absence or passivity of the religious left?
  Graphic sex and violence bring to the fore what polite society refuses to acknowledge about its sadistic desires and invisible victims.
  The work that needs to be done at the bottom is performed by increasingly desperate but invisible workers living on the insecure economic edge.
  Considering that I am invisible, which means that I can't be labeled.
  It's hard to take being treated like invisible people, or people who simply don't count.
  He was the only one who treated me as if I was invisible.
  As anyone who's ever met or worked with Merla will attest, he is not invisible in person.
  A non-political person is invisible to a politician; thus many of us are ignored when we try to speak out.
  We're brushing off the fact that she walked by me as though I was invisible and the fact that she said nothing of importance after my apology.
  Several times I attempted to interact with the other women only to be treated as if I were invisible.
  And at this age, when you're totally invisible, you really have to work three times as much just to stay where you are.
  But if I'm not invisible then all those people who completely ignore me must just be very rude indeed.
  Of all the things that bothered me most over the last month, the thoughts and feelings that were attributed to me were inaccurate and made me feel that I was invisible.
  I don't know the other girls, and they treat me like I'm invisible.
  Maybe I was simply invisible to them, just air, because I am a woman of a certain age, and as such I barely register on any male's radar.
  Folks don't like to be ignored or treated as if they are invisible.
  You are feeling hurt too, but you still want to know why Oliver is treating you like you're invisible.
2Economics
Relating to or denoting earnings which a country makes from the sale of services or other items not constituting tangible commodities.
invisible exports
Example sentencesExamples
- Pragmatically it was also an attempt to assure the retention of London as a key international financial centre, with consequent invisible earnings accruing to the country.
- When invisible earnings are taken into account (from financial services, etc) the balance is the other way round.
- Overseas construction is a critical source of foreign currency and invisible export earnings.
- Most of the Conservative cabinet objected that tariffs would raise food prices, hinder exports, and jeopardize the invisible earnings of the City of London.
- It is much easier and can be highly profitable to transmit invisible commodities.

noun ɪnˈvɪzɪb(ə)lɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l

invisibles

Invisible exports and imports.
Example sentencesExamples
- Our balance of payments got progressively worse and NZ started to borrow overseas to bridge the gap between our imports plus invisibles, and falling exports.
- These misleading perceptions are not helped by data on invisibles being less timely, frequent and certain than data on visible trade.
- Substantial invisible earnings meant that Britain could sustain a trade deficit, the value of exports being less than imports, without experiencing a balance of payments deficit because invisibles added to exports exceeded imports.
- Poor trade figures have been airily waved aside as irrelevant or of no consequence so long as oil and invisibles - investment inflows and earnings from travel, insurance and tourism - continued to boom.
- This data does not include software exports which are shown under invisibles.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin invisibilis, from in- 'not' + visibilis (see visible).

Definition of invisible in US English:

invisible

adjectiveinˈvizəb(ə)lɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l

1Unable to be seen; not visible to the eye.
this invisible gas is present to some extent in every home
Example sentencesExamples
- Cctv works in the dark by beaming invisible infrared light around the area to be filmed and then using special cameras which can pick up an image.
- Air is invisible because the tiny molecules of nitrogen, oxygen and other gases that make up air are so small, our eyes cannot see them.
- He also describes a new goal: to see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight.
- This led to the proposition that most of the mass in a galaxy was low luminosity mass of some kind, and this invisible mass was called dark matter.
- Radon is an invisible gas found in certain types of rock and soil, which can cause cancer if it seeps into houses and is breathed in over prolonged periods.
- Gas-detecting devices currently used by investigators can detect the presence of gas which is invisible to the naked eye but not the source of the leak.
- They have already made major breakthroughs in the study of dark matter - the invisible material which scientists believe makes up most of the universe.
- It's tricky to tell a story on TV about an invisible gas that might be injected deep underground sometime in the distant future.
- The flatness of the universe indicates that most of the matter in it is invisible, or dark.
- The broadness of the emission lines is assumed to be a sign of great turbulence in the invisible gas surrounding the galaxy.
- At bottom the expression most apt to render what I felt is this: God was present, though invisible; he fell under no one of my senses, yet my consciousness perceived him.
- Dark energy, an invisible kind of energy, tends to make the universe expand, so its effects become more pronounced with time.
- Any microscopic reduction, certainly invisible to the naked eye, is cancelled out by bulges wherever elastane cuts into flesh.
- From the side of his vision, Rowan saw another dark elf emerge from the smooth wall, an invisible spell he concluded had kept it from sight.
- Dark matter is an invisible form of mass that comprises most of the matter in the universe.
- The gas was invisible, and without taste, without smell.
- Dark matter is invisible to the telescopes, and you only detect its presence by the gravitational effect it has on light beams passing by.
- Carbon monoxide is often known as the silent killer as the gas is invisible and has no smell or taste.
- This gas is completely invisible to human eyes, but because of its temperature, it is visible by its X-ray emission.
- The style was bound up with a very unclear theory of invisible rays, in some ways analogous to the ‘lines of force’ that were postulated by the Futurists.
Synonyms
unnoticeable, undetectable, indistinguishable, indiscernible, unapparent, inappreciable, inaudible, impalpable, unobtrusive, impossible to detect
1. 1.1 Concealed from sight; hidden.
  he lounged in a doorway, invisible in the dark
  Example sentencesExamples
  There were thousands of people up in those dark, invisible balconies.
  Against a dark backdrop, invisible footlights pick out Paganini's lithe silhouette, sheathed in a formal black suit.
  She looked again at the nearly invisible church against the dark night sky.
  It was nearing nighttime now, and the ebon coloration of the building coupled with the equally dark landscape rendered it invisible after dusk.
  Riley buried the pen into his desk, the tip snapping off and flying off to some dark invisible corner.
  Rine muttered under her breath and waved her hand, and the orange flames turned a dark blue, almost invisible against the dark tree roots and casting no light at all.
  Dezra herself had led them from the Lady into a seemingly invisible cave, its entrance completely concealed along the cliff side.
  Alex had been found hiding in the boys changing rooms rambling on about something invisible in the dark, something that had killed Lizzie and he couldn't stop it.
  For the video projection the frame is not the surface of the wall but the dark invisible space between the projector and the wall.
  As she looked around in her dark, almost invisible room, she noticed that the clock displayed the time of four o'clock in the morning.
  Next-door Nepal offers a case study of vulgar tourism - Kathmandu is so choked with dark brown smog that the Everest is invisible on some days.
  He was dressed in cool tones, a brown that was almost blue, with a dark red thread near invisible beneath the fabric.
  The large, dark tabby was almost invisible under dim light, despite his four white feet.
  As it was, the entry was far from gracious and in the dark, the invisible little television monitor that hangs from the ceiling got a well deserved thump from a large western head for its troubles.
  It is a proscenium theatre, but the proscenium arch is made almost invisible by its dark colour, uniting the audience and actor in a single room.
  I sat down for a while, looking out at the invisible ocean until my eyes grew accustomed to the dark and then together we picked our way back across the crooked, misshapen rocks towards the beach.
  It had invisible pockets on the insides to conceal small weapons.
  His hair was scattered over his forehead and ears, his mouth was loose, his eyes almost invisible in their dark shadows.
  The glass doors were invisible under the dark curtains Michael had decorated the living room with.
  Synonyms
  not visible, unseeable
2. 1.2 Treated as if unable to be seen; ignored or not taken into consideration.
  before 1971, women artists were pretty well invisible
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's hard to take being treated like invisible people, or people who simply don't count.
  A non-political person is invisible to a politician; thus many of us are ignored when we try to speak out.
  Of all the things that bothered me most over the last month, the thoughts and feelings that were attributed to me were inaccurate and made me feel that I was invisible.
  The feeling that they are invisible, forgotten and ignored runs deep.
  How come they were so invisible to people who wanted to sing the same old song about the absence or passivity of the religious left?
  Considering that I am invisible, which means that I can't be labeled.
  You are feeling hurt too, but you still want to know why Oliver is treating you like you're invisible.
  As anyone who's ever met or worked with Merla will attest, he is not invisible in person.
  And at this age, when you're totally invisible, you really have to work three times as much just to stay where you are.
  But if I'm not invisible then all those people who completely ignore me must just be very rude indeed.
  He was the only one who treated me as if I was invisible.
  I don't know the other girls, and they treat me like I'm invisible.
  Several times I attempted to interact with the other women only to be treated as if I were invisible.
  The work that needs to be done at the bottom is performed by increasingly desperate but invisible workers living on the insecure economic edge.
  There have been many moments in life when I really wished I was invisible, because the way I looked was drawing me attention I didn't want.
  We're brushing off the fact that she walked by me as though I was invisible and the fact that she said nothing of importance after my apology.
  Folks don't like to be ignored or treated as if they are invisible.
  Because, she knew, home was where they were going to ignore her; home was where she was as invisible as a pedestrian along a road at night.
  Maybe I was simply invisible to them, just air, because I am a woman of a certain age, and as such I barely register on any male's radar.
  Graphic sex and violence bring to the fore what polite society refuses to acknowledge about its sadistic desires and invisible victims.
3. 1.3Economics Relating to or denoting earnings that a country makes from the sale of services or other items not constituting tangible commodities.
  tourism is the most important of our invisible exports
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is much easier and can be highly profitable to transmit invisible commodities.
  When invisible earnings are taken into account (from financial services, etc) the balance is the other way round.
  Pragmatically it was also an attempt to assure the retention of London as a key international financial centre, with consequent invisible earnings accruing to the country.
  Most of the Conservative cabinet objected that tariffs would raise food prices, hinder exports, and jeopardize the invisible earnings of the City of London.
  Overseas construction is a critical source of foreign currency and invisible export earnings.

nouninˈvizəb(ə)lɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l

invisibles

Invisible exports and imports.
Example sentencesExamples
- These misleading perceptions are not helped by data on invisibles being less timely, frequent and certain than data on visible trade.
- This data does not include software exports which are shown under invisibles.
- Poor trade figures have been airily waved aside as irrelevant or of no consequence so long as oil and invisibles - investment inflows and earnings from travel, insurance and tourism - continued to boom.
- Substantial invisible earnings meant that Britain could sustain a trade deficit, the value of exports being less than imports, without experiencing a balance of payments deficit because invisibles added to exports exceeded imports.
- Our balance of payments got progressively worse and NZ started to borrow overseas to bridge the gap between our imports plus invisibles, and falling exports.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin invisibilis, from in- ‘not’ + visibilis (see visible).

单词	invisible
释义	Definition of invisible in English: invisible adjective ɪnˈvɪzɪb(ə)lɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l 1Unable to be seen. this invisible gas is present to some extent in every home Example sentencesExamples Cctv works in the dark by beaming invisible infrared light around the area to be filmed and then using special cameras which can pick up an image. From the side of his vision, Rowan saw another dark elf emerge from the smooth wall, an invisible spell he concluded had kept it from sight. Dark matter is invisible to the telescopes, and you only detect its presence by the gravitational effect it has on light beams passing by. Carbon monoxide is often known as the silent killer as the gas is invisible and has no smell or taste. Dark matter is an invisible form of mass that comprises most of the matter in the universe. Air is invisible because the tiny molecules of nitrogen, oxygen and other gases that make up air are so small, our eyes cannot see them. The flatness of the universe indicates that most of the matter in it is invisible, or dark. Any microscopic reduction, certainly invisible to the naked eye, is cancelled out by bulges wherever elastane cuts into flesh. The gas was invisible, and without taste, without smell. They have already made major breakthroughs in the study of dark matter - the invisible material which scientists believe makes up most of the universe. He also describes a new goal: to see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight. At bottom the expression most apt to render what I felt is this: God was present, though invisible; he fell under no one of my senses, yet my consciousness perceived him. This led to the proposition that most of the mass in a galaxy was low luminosity mass of some kind, and this invisible mass was called dark matter. Dark energy, an invisible kind of energy, tends to make the universe expand, so its effects become more pronounced with time. The broadness of the emission lines is assumed to be a sign of great turbulence in the invisible gas surrounding the galaxy. Radon is an invisible gas found in certain types of rock and soil, which can cause cancer if it seeps into houses and is breathed in over prolonged periods. Gas-detecting devices currently used by investigators can detect the presence of gas which is invisible to the naked eye but not the source of the leak. It's tricky to tell a story on TV about an invisible gas that might be injected deep underground sometime in the distant future. The style was bound up with a very unclear theory of invisible rays, in some ways analogous to the ‘lines of force’ that were postulated by the Futurists. This gas is completely invisible to human eyes, but because of its temperature, it is visible by its X-ray emission. Synonyms unnoticeable, undetectable, indistinguishable, indiscernible, unapparent, inappreciable, inaudible, impalpable, unobtrusive, impossible to detect 1.1 Concealed from sight; hidden. he lounged in a doorway, invisible in the dark Example sentencesExamples Dezra herself had led them from the Lady into a seemingly invisible cave, its entrance completely concealed along the cliff side. It is a proscenium theatre, but the proscenium arch is made almost invisible by its dark colour, uniting the audience and actor in a single room. It had invisible pockets on the insides to conceal small weapons. He was dressed in cool tones, a brown that was almost blue, with a dark red thread near invisible beneath the fabric. As she looked around in her dark, almost invisible room, she noticed that the clock displayed the time of four o'clock in the morning. It was nearing nighttime now, and the ebon coloration of the building coupled with the equally dark landscape rendered it invisible after dusk. Alex had been found hiding in the boys changing rooms rambling on about something invisible in the dark, something that had killed Lizzie and he couldn't stop it. The large, dark tabby was almost invisible under dim light, despite his four white feet. The glass doors were invisible under the dark curtains Michael had decorated the living room with. Rine muttered under her breath and waved her hand, and the orange flames turned a dark blue, almost invisible against the dark tree roots and casting no light at all. Against a dark backdrop, invisible footlights pick out Paganini's lithe silhouette, sheathed in a formal black suit. Next-door Nepal offers a case study of vulgar tourism - Kathmandu is so choked with dark brown smog that the Everest is invisible on some days. For the video projection the frame is not the surface of the wall but the dark invisible space between the projector and the wall. Riley buried the pen into his desk, the tip snapping off and flying off to some dark invisible corner. His hair was scattered over his forehead and ears, his mouth was loose, his eyes almost invisible in their dark shadows. She looked again at the nearly invisible church against the dark night sky. There were thousands of people up in those dark, invisible balconies. As it was, the entry was far from gracious and in the dark, the invisible little television monitor that hangs from the ceiling got a well deserved thump from a large western head for its troubles. I sat down for a while, looking out at the invisible ocean until my eyes grew accustomed to the dark and then together we picked our way back across the crooked, misshapen rocks towards the beach. Synonyms not visible, unseeable undetectable, indiscernible, indistinguishable, inconspicuous, unnoticeable, imperceptible unseen, unnoticed, unobserved, hidden, concealed, obscured, out of sight, secret 1.2 Treated as if unable to be seen; ignored or not taken into consideration. before 1971 women artists were pretty well invisible Example sentencesExamples Because, she knew, home was where they were going to ignore her; home was where she was as invisible as a pedestrian along a road at night. The feeling that they are invisible, forgotten and ignored runs deep. There have been many moments in life when I really wished I was invisible, because the way I looked was drawing me attention I didn't want. How come they were so invisible to people who wanted to sing the same old song about the absence or passivity of the religious left? Graphic sex and violence bring to the fore what polite society refuses to acknowledge about its sadistic desires and invisible victims. The work that needs to be done at the bottom is performed by increasingly desperate but invisible workers living on the insecure economic edge. Considering that I am invisible, which means that I can't be labeled. It's hard to take being treated like invisible people, or people who simply don't count. He was the only one who treated me as if I was invisible. As anyone who's ever met or worked with Merla will attest, he is not invisible in person. A non-political person is invisible to a politician; thus many of us are ignored when we try to speak out. We're brushing off the fact that she walked by me as though I was invisible and the fact that she said nothing of importance after my apology. Several times I attempted to interact with the other women only to be treated as if I were invisible. And at this age, when you're totally invisible, you really have to work three times as much just to stay where you are. But if I'm not invisible then all those people who completely ignore me must just be very rude indeed. Of all the things that bothered me most over the last month, the thoughts and feelings that were attributed to me were inaccurate and made me feel that I was invisible. I don't know the other girls, and they treat me like I'm invisible. Maybe I was simply invisible to them, just air, because I am a woman of a certain age, and as such I barely register on any male's radar. Folks don't like to be ignored or treated as if they are invisible. You are feeling hurt too, but you still want to know why Oliver is treating you like you're invisible. 2Economics Relating to or denoting earnings which a country makes from the sale of services or other items not constituting tangible commodities. invisible exports Example sentencesExamples Pragmatically it was also an attempt to assure the retention of London as a key international financial centre, with consequent invisible earnings accruing to the country. When invisible earnings are taken into account (from financial services, etc) the balance is the other way round. Overseas construction is a critical source of foreign currency and invisible export earnings. Most of the Conservative cabinet objected that tariffs would raise food prices, hinder exports, and jeopardize the invisible earnings of the City of London. It is much easier and can be highly profitable to transmit invisible commodities. noun ɪnˈvɪzɪb(ə)lɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l invisibles Invisible exports and imports. Example sentencesExamples Our balance of payments got progressively worse and NZ started to borrow overseas to bridge the gap between our imports plus invisibles, and falling exports. These misleading perceptions are not helped by data on invisibles being less timely, frequent and certain than data on visible trade. Substantial invisible earnings meant that Britain could sustain a trade deficit, the value of exports being less than imports, without experiencing a balance of payments deficit because invisibles added to exports exceeded imports. Poor trade figures have been airily waved aside as irrelevant or of no consequence so long as oil and invisibles - investment inflows and earnings from travel, insurance and tourism - continued to boom. This data does not include software exports which are shown under invisibles. Origin Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin invisibilis, from in- 'not' + visibilis (see visible). Definition of invisible in US English: invisible adjectiveinˈvizəb(ə)lɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l 1Unable to be seen; not visible to the eye. this invisible gas is present to some extent in every home Example sentencesExamples Cctv works in the dark by beaming invisible infrared light around the area to be filmed and then using special cameras which can pick up an image. Air is invisible because the tiny molecules of nitrogen, oxygen and other gases that make up air are so small, our eyes cannot see them. He also describes a new goal: to see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight. This led to the proposition that most of the mass in a galaxy was low luminosity mass of some kind, and this invisible mass was called dark matter. Radon is an invisible gas found in certain types of rock and soil, which can cause cancer if it seeps into houses and is breathed in over prolonged periods. Gas-detecting devices currently used by investigators can detect the presence of gas which is invisible to the naked eye but not the source of the leak. They have already made major breakthroughs in the study of dark matter - the invisible material which scientists believe makes up most of the universe. It's tricky to tell a story on TV about an invisible gas that might be injected deep underground sometime in the distant future. The flatness of the universe indicates that most of the matter in it is invisible, or dark. The broadness of the emission lines is assumed to be a sign of great turbulence in the invisible gas surrounding the galaxy. At bottom the expression most apt to render what I felt is this: God was present, though invisible; he fell under no one of my senses, yet my consciousness perceived him. Dark energy, an invisible kind of energy, tends to make the universe expand, so its effects become more pronounced with time. Any microscopic reduction, certainly invisible to the naked eye, is cancelled out by bulges wherever elastane cuts into flesh. From the side of his vision, Rowan saw another dark elf emerge from the smooth wall, an invisible spell he concluded had kept it from sight. Dark matter is an invisible form of mass that comprises most of the matter in the universe. The gas was invisible, and without taste, without smell. Dark matter is invisible to the telescopes, and you only detect its presence by the gravitational effect it has on light beams passing by. Carbon monoxide is often known as the silent killer as the gas is invisible and has no smell or taste. This gas is completely invisible to human eyes, but because of its temperature, it is visible by its X-ray emission. The style was bound up with a very unclear theory of invisible rays, in some ways analogous to the ‘lines of force’ that were postulated by the Futurists. Synonyms unnoticeable, undetectable, indistinguishable, indiscernible, unapparent, inappreciable, inaudible, impalpable, unobtrusive, impossible to detect 1.1 Concealed from sight; hidden. he lounged in a doorway, invisible in the dark Example sentencesExamples There were thousands of people up in those dark, invisible balconies. Against a dark backdrop, invisible footlights pick out Paganini's lithe silhouette, sheathed in a formal black suit. She looked again at the nearly invisible church against the dark night sky. It was nearing nighttime now, and the ebon coloration of the building coupled with the equally dark landscape rendered it invisible after dusk. Riley buried the pen into his desk, the tip snapping off and flying off to some dark invisible corner. Rine muttered under her breath and waved her hand, and the orange flames turned a dark blue, almost invisible against the dark tree roots and casting no light at all. Dezra herself had led them from the Lady into a seemingly invisible cave, its entrance completely concealed along the cliff side. Alex had been found hiding in the boys changing rooms rambling on about something invisible in the dark, something that had killed Lizzie and he couldn't stop it. For the video projection the frame is not the surface of the wall but the dark invisible space between the projector and the wall. As she looked around in her dark, almost invisible room, she noticed that the clock displayed the time of four o'clock in the morning. Next-door Nepal offers a case study of vulgar tourism - Kathmandu is so choked with dark brown smog that the Everest is invisible on some days. He was dressed in cool tones, a brown that was almost blue, with a dark red thread near invisible beneath the fabric. The large, dark tabby was almost invisible under dim light, despite his four white feet. As it was, the entry was far from gracious and in the dark, the invisible little television monitor that hangs from the ceiling got a well deserved thump from a large western head for its troubles. It is a proscenium theatre, but the proscenium arch is made almost invisible by its dark colour, uniting the audience and actor in a single room. I sat down for a while, looking out at the invisible ocean until my eyes grew accustomed to the dark and then together we picked our way back across the crooked, misshapen rocks towards the beach. It had invisible pockets on the insides to conceal small weapons. His hair was scattered over his forehead and ears, his mouth was loose, his eyes almost invisible in their dark shadows. The glass doors were invisible under the dark curtains Michael had decorated the living room with. Synonyms not visible, unseeable 1.2 Treated as if unable to be seen; ignored or not taken into consideration. before 1971, women artists were pretty well invisible Example sentencesExamples It's hard to take being treated like invisible people, or people who simply don't count. A non-political person is invisible to a politician; thus many of us are ignored when we try to speak out. Of all the things that bothered me most over the last month, the thoughts and feelings that were attributed to me were inaccurate and made me feel that I was invisible. The feeling that they are invisible, forgotten and ignored runs deep. How come they were so invisible to people who wanted to sing the same old song about the absence or passivity of the religious left? Considering that I am invisible, which means that I can't be labeled. You are feeling hurt too, but you still want to know why Oliver is treating you like you're invisible. As anyone who's ever met or worked with Merla will attest, he is not invisible in person. And at this age, when you're totally invisible, you really have to work three times as much just to stay where you are. But if I'm not invisible then all those people who completely ignore me must just be very rude indeed. He was the only one who treated me as if I was invisible. I don't know the other girls, and they treat me like I'm invisible. Several times I attempted to interact with the other women only to be treated as if I were invisible. The work that needs to be done at the bottom is performed by increasingly desperate but invisible workers living on the insecure economic edge. There have been many moments in life when I really wished I was invisible, because the way I looked was drawing me attention I didn't want. We're brushing off the fact that she walked by me as though I was invisible and the fact that she said nothing of importance after my apology. Folks don't like to be ignored or treated as if they are invisible. Because, she knew, home was where they were going to ignore her; home was where she was as invisible as a pedestrian along a road at night. Maybe I was simply invisible to them, just air, because I am a woman of a certain age, and as such I barely register on any male's radar. Graphic sex and violence bring to the fore what polite society refuses to acknowledge about its sadistic desires and invisible victims. 1.3Economics Relating to or denoting earnings that a country makes from the sale of services or other items not constituting tangible commodities. tourism is the most important of our invisible exports Example sentencesExamples It is much easier and can be highly profitable to transmit invisible commodities. When invisible earnings are taken into account (from financial services, etc) the balance is the other way round. Pragmatically it was also an attempt to assure the retention of London as a key international financial centre, with consequent invisible earnings accruing to the country. Most of the Conservative cabinet objected that tariffs would raise food prices, hinder exports, and jeopardize the invisible earnings of the City of London. Overseas construction is a critical source of foreign currency and invisible export earnings. nouninˈvizəb(ə)lɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l invisibles Invisible exports and imports. Example sentencesExamples These misleading perceptions are not helped by data on invisibles being less timely, frequent and certain than data on visible trade. This data does not include software exports which are shown under invisibles. Poor trade figures have been airily waved aside as irrelevant or of no consequence so long as oil and invisibles - investment inflows and earnings from travel, insurance and tourism - continued to boom. Substantial invisible earnings meant that Britain could sustain a trade deficit, the value of exports being less than imports, without experiencing a balance of payments deficit because invisibles added to exports exceeded imports. Our balance of payments got progressively worse and NZ started to borrow overseas to bridge the gap between our imports plus invisibles, and falling exports. Origin Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin invisibilis, from in- ‘not’ + visibilis (see visible).
随便看	be in sympathy with be in tears be intemperate be intended for be intended for be intended for be intense be intent on be interbedded be interbedded be interested be interested in be interested/involved in be interred be in the air be in the arms of morpheus be in the business of be in the chair at be in the dark be in the dogbox be in the doghouse be in the doghouse be in the driver's seat be in the driver's seat of be in the driving/driver's seat