📖 V — The English dictionary · page 14

visit — Everyday, meaning 1: To visit means to go to see a person or a place for a while.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A visit is the time you spend there, or the trip itself.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To visit a website means to look at it on a screen.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A doctor or nurse who visits a sick person comes to their home to help.↗ Example: She visits her grandma 3 times a month.↗ · 120 people visited the museum on Monday.↗ · Each visit costs 5 dollars.↗ · How many visits in a year?↗ · We paid a visit to our cousins in Ireland.↗ · The class visit to the zoo was great fun.↗ · Visiting hours at the hospital end at eight.↗ · Over a million people visit this website every week.↗ · "Now come and pay us a visit."↗ · And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.↗ (Torah LEV.18.25, JPS 1917)↗ · If these men die the common death of all men, and be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD hath not sent Me.↗ (Torah NUM.16.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee; behold, Mine angel shall go before thee; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.'↗ (Torah EXO.32.34, JPS 1917)↗ · Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes.↗ (Writings PSA.89.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.↗ (Writings JOB.5.24, JPS 1917)↗ · You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.↗ (Prophets AMO.3.2, JPS 1917)↗

visitation — Everyday, meaning 1: A visitation is a visit, especially by someone important or by a god.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A visitation is a terrible event sent as a punishment, such as a plague.↗ Example: The heroes waited for the visitation of the goddess.↗ · The town suffered a terrible visitation of disease.↗ · Achilles asked how to stop the visitation of the gods.↗ · If these men die the common death of all men, and be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD hath not sent Me.↗ (Torah NUM.16.29, JPS 1917)↗ · They are vanity, a work of delusion; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.↗ (Prophets JER.10.15, JPS 1917)↗ · They are vanity, a work of delusion; in the time of their visitation they shall perish, (Prophets JER.51.18, JPS 1917)↗ · The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come, Israel shall know it.↗ (Prophets HOS.9.7, JPS 1917)↗

visitor — Everyday, meaning 1: A visitor is a person who comes to see a person or a place for a while.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A visitor to a website is a person who looks at it.↗ Example: We have visitors coming for dinner tonight.↗ · All visitors must report to the school office.↗ · The zoo had 3,000 visitors on Saturday.↗ · Swallows are summer visitors to Britain.↗ · A visitor knocked at the door.↗ · The museum gives every visitor a map.↗ · Our class website had 50 visitors this week.↗ · Then at last the visitor spoke, in a lovely bell-like voice.↗

vista — Everyday, meaning 1: A vista is a beautiful, wide view, especially a long one seen between hills, trees or buildings.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) A vista can also mean a range of future possibilities: «Reading opens new vistas.».↗ Example: From the top of the hill we saw a wonderful vista of fields and rivers.↗ · The train passed through sweeping mountain vistas.↗ · The window framed a vista of the sea.↗ · Learning to read opened up whole new vistas for Gran.↗ · The photographer captured the vista at sunset.↗ · The path ended at a vista over the lake.↗ · Halting at the entrance, they gazed through a long vista of lofty pillars, that were ranged from end to end of a great hall.↗

visual — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) To do with seeing or sight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A picture, chart or video used to show or explain something.↗ Example: A diagram is a good visual aid for fractions.↗ · The film had amazing visual effects.↗ · Some people are visual learners and like pictures.↗ · Use visuals in your presentation.↗ · Owls have very sharp visual senses at night.↗ · A bar chart gives a visual picture of the data.↗

visually — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that has to do with seeing or how something looks: the poster is visually striking.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: By looking with your eyes: check the bike visually before you ride.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Visually impaired: not able to see well or at all (a polite term).↗ Example: The bar chart shows the data visually.↗ · The cake was visually amazing but tasted of nothing.↗ · Visually check your helmet for cracks.↗ · A guide dog helps a visually impaired person cross the road.↗ · The two triangles look visually the same, but measure them to be sure.↗ · The book is visually beautiful, with bright pictures.↗ · Some people learn best visually, with diagrams.↗

vital — Everyday, meaning 1: Extremely important or necessary; something you cannot do without.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Needed to stay alive, like the heart, lungs and brain, which are "vital organs".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Full of energy and life.↗ Example: Water is vital for all living things.↗ · It is vital that you wear a helmet when you ride a bike.↗ · The heart and lungs are vital organs.↗ · The nurse checked his vital signs.↗ · Bees play a vital role in growing our food.↗ · The goalkeeper made a vital save in the last minute.↗ · Sleep is vital for a growing brain.↗ · She was a bright and vital old lady who loved dancing.↗ · tion of numbers and letters ; every letter suggesting a 'number, and every group of letters having a numerical signification, as vital as its literal meaning.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

vitality — Everyday, meaning 1: Vitality is great energy and life; being full of strength and spirit.↗ Example: The puppy had boundless vitality.↗ · Her vitality made everyone smile.↗ · The new school shows the vitality of our town.↗ · Man is a microcosm, as the neck separates rationality from vitality, so does diaphragm the vitality from the vegetativeness.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

vitamin — Everyday, meaning 1: Vitamins are tiny natural substances in food that your body needs to stay healthy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Each vitamin has a letter name, like vitamin A, B, C, D, E or K.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A vitamin can also mean a pill with vitamins in it.↗ Example: Oranges are full of vitamin C.↗ · Carrots have vitamin A, which is good for your eyes.↗ · Sunshine helps your skin make vitamin D.↗ · Eat lots of fruit and vegetables to get your vitamins.↗ · Sailors long ago got ill without vitamin C.↗ · Mum takes a vitamin every morning.↗ · Never eat vitamin pills like sweets; they are medicine.↗ · Milk and fish have vitamins and minerals.↗

vitreous — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Like glass, or made of glass: hard, shiny and often see-through.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) The vitreous humour (or vitreous body) is the clear jelly that fills the inside of the eyeball.↗ Example: The vitreous humour is a clear jelly inside the eye.↗ · Quartz has a vitreous shine, like glass.↗ · The toilet is made of vitreous china.↗ · Light passes through the vitreous jelly to reach the back of the eye.↗ · The old metal sign was coated in vitreous enamel.↗ · The rock had a vitreous look where lava had cooled quickly.↗

vivid — Everyday, meaning 1: Very bright and strong in colour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very clear and detailed, so that it seems real (a vivid dream, a vivid memory).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Lively and full of ideas (a vivid imagination).↗ Example: The parrot had vivid green and red feathers.↗ · I had a vivid dream about flying.↗ · She has a vivid imagination.↗ · He vividly remembers his first day at school.↗ · Use vivid words to describe the storm.↗ · The sunset was a vivid orange.↗ · The book gives a vivid picture of life at sea.↗ · Now he could see glowing sparks, and vivid jets of flame.↗ · The appearance of this root in the SY’s introductory paragraph serves as a reminder that although we embark upon a text rich in vivid, grounded symbolism—even anthropomorphism—we should not hasten to take such symbolic language overly literally.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

vividly — Everyday, meaning 1: Vividly means very clearly and in a lively way, so you can almost see, feel or remember it: «I vividly remember my first day at school.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Vividly coloured means with very bright, strong colours.↗ Example: I vividly remember the day we got our puppy.↗ · The author describes the stormy sea vividly.↗ · Poison dart frogs are vividly coloured to warn birds.↗ · She vividly imagined the dragon flying over the school.↗ · The parrot's feathers were vividly red and blue.↗ · Grandad vividly told us about the big snow of his childhood.↗ · The old woman died first; that day is still quite vividly before my eyes.↗

vivify — Everyday, meaning 1: To vivify is to bring to life or make lively and full of energy (rare, mostly in old tales).↗ Example: The healing water can vivify the dying hero.↗ · Spring sun vivifies the garden.↗ · The story vivified the old castle for us.↗

vixen — Everyday, meaning 1: A vixen is a female fox.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In old tales a vixen is a sly, cunning creature.↗ Example: The vixen ran into the thicket with her cubs.↗ · The hens were safe until the vixen came.↗ · "Here I am," yapped the vixen.↗

vizier — Everyday, meaning 1: A vizier was a high minister or adviser to a king or sultan in old Eastern lands.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (in fairy tales) A vizier's son is a young man of noble birth at the king's court.↗ Example: The king called for his vizier.↗ · The vizier's son was brave and kind.↗ · "Joy, joy!" exclaimed the vizier's son.↗

vocabulary — Everyday, meaning 1: Vocabulary is all the words a person knows or uses.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The vocabulary of a language or subject is all the words in it, or the special words used in it: maths vocabulary.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A vocabulary can be a list of words with their meanings, used for learning, especially a foreign language.↗ Example: Reading lots of books helps you build your vocabulary.↗ · Our French vocabulary test is on Friday.↗ · «Sum» and «product» are maths vocabulary.↗ · She has a big vocabulary for her age.↗ · Learn the new science vocabulary at the back of the book.↗ · A baby's vocabulary grows quickly.↗ · Write each vocabulary word in a sentence.↗ · Midrash Tanchuma 1:5 on [Genesis 1:1], Zohar 1:3a inter alia.]↗ [note 8: Though the phrase is usually translated the ‘Thirty-Two Paths’, I find that the alliteration of ‘Wondrous Ways of Wisdom’ neatly approximates the SY’s choice of poetic vocabulary.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

vocal — Everyday, meaning 1: Vocal means about the voice or using the voice.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A vocal person speaks out strongly and often.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Vocals are the singing parts of a song.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Vocal can also mean making a sound, like a noisy river.↗ Example: Your vocal cords make sounds.↗ · She is very vocal about saving animals.↗ · He sang the lead vocals.↗ · The choir did vocal warm-ups.↗ · The crowd was vocal in support.↗ · Parrots are vocal birds.↗ · From these vocal rivers we will now turn to that elementary force by which in winter they are often rendered mute.↗

vocalisation — Everyday, meaning 1: A vocalisation is a sound made with the voice, especially by an animal, like a bark, a howl, a song or a call.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Vocalisation is the act of making sounds with the voice or of singing.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (music) Vocalisation is singing a tune on vowel sounds without words.↗ Example: Wolves use many vocalisations, like howls and growls.↗ · Scientists recorded the whale's vocalisations.↗ · A baby's first vocalisations are coos and gurgles.↗ · Birdsong is a kind of vocalisation.↗ · The singer warmed up with vocalisation exercises.↗

vocalist — Everyday, meaning 1: A vocalist is a singer, especially one who sings with a band or group.↗ Example: She is the lead vocalist in the school band.↗ · The backing vocalists sang "ooh" behind him.↗ · Our guest vocalist sang a song in Welsh.↗ · Every band needs a strong vocalist.↗ · The vocalist warmed up her voice before the show.↗ · He started as a drummer but became a vocalist.↗

vocalize — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To give a Hebrew word its vowel sounds, or to decide how it should be read aloud by adding vowels.↗ Example: There exist alternative traditions where this term in the SY is vocalized instead as אַמּוֹת ammot 'cubits' or אֻמּוֹת ummot 'nations'.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · It must be noted that the term אמות is vocalized and translated here as אִמּוֹת immot 'Mothers', based on the parallel אָבוֹת avot 'fathers' of SY 3:2 and 6:1.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

vocally — Everyday, meaning 1: By speaking out loudly and openly, so others clearly hear your opinion.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Using the voice, especially in singing.↗ Example: The parents vocally opposed closing the playground.↗ · Our class vocally supported the idea of a longer break.↗ · The fans cheered vocally for their team.↗ · Vocally, this song is very hard to sing.↗ · She is quiet in class but vocally strong in the choir.↗ · Some neighbours complained vocally about the noise.↗