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A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.
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{
"term": "invisible",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "that cannot be seen",
"sensetop": "invisible to somebody/something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a wizard who could make himself invisible"
},
{
"text": "She felt invisible in the crowd."
},
{
"text": "stars invisible to the naked eye",
"contextForm": "invisible to somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "Infrared light is invisible to the human eye."
},
{
"text": "The tanks were camouflaged so that they were invisible from the air."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "become", "remain"],
"adverb": ["completely", "totally", "almost"],
"preposition": ["to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "ignored or treated as if they/it cannot be seen",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Homeless people feel that they are invisible."
},
{
"text": "It's interesting how women are rendered invisible in these statistics."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "connected with a service that a country provides, such as banks or tourism, rather than goods",
"labels": "(economics)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "invisible earnings"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvɪzəbl/",
"audio": "in/invisible/invisible__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈvɪzəbl/",
"audio": "in/invisible/invisible__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin invisibilis, from in- ‘not’ + visibilis (from videre ‘to see’)."
}