单词 | visual |
释义 | visual (once / 806 pages) adj If you want to know the meaning of visual, just look around! Anything you can see falls under the heading of visual. What "aural" is to the ears and "olfactory" is to the nose, visual is to the eyes. It's often said that "film is a visual medium"; it uses pictures to tell a story. You have to see it to get it. That's clearly different from, say, radio which can only use audio. Have you ever closed your eyes while watching a cartoon? If you cut out the visual parts and just listen to the music and sound effects, it's often even funnier. As zany as the sounds are, they're even funnier when you separate them from their visual cues. Visual shares its root with vision, which is (not surprisingly) the ability to see. How visual! WORD FAMILYvisual: nonvisual, visualise, visualize, visually+/visualisation: visualisations/visualise: visualisation, visualised, visualiser, visualises, visualising/visualiser: visualisers/visualization: visualizations/visualize: visualization, visualized, visualizer, visualizes, visualizing/visualizer: visualizers USAGE EXAMPLESUse a partition, purse or coat for a visual cue to fill at least half of your cart with fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) “A measurement is just a number. But a visual image of what they look like, rather than their imagination, is much more motivating.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) This work, painted in 1618, is really about the visual puzzle it presents, but this is packaged in the guise of a religious painting. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj relating to or using sight visual powers visual navigation Syn ocular, optic, optical 2adj visible a visual presentation a visual image Syn ocular seeable, visible capable of being seen; or open to easy view |
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