unseen
part of speech
adjective; adverb
meaning for a pupil
1) Unseen means not seen or not noticed by anyone. tree →
2) In school, an unseen text or test is one you have not looked at before. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah, the ten Sefirot are said to flash like lightning, and their origin is hidden. Interpretation: The tradition says that God's creative powers can't be seen or fully known. They can only be glimpsed. In the primary lessons: In stories, a character slips away unseen, or an unseen danger waits. In school, «unseen poetry» or an «unseen passage» is a text pupils read for the first time in a test. In science, germs and air are unseen but real. Phrases: «sight unseen», «go unseen», «unseen danger», «unseen passage».
examples
- The Ten ineffable Sephiroth have the appearance of the Lightning flash", their origin is unseen and no end is perceived. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- The mouse crept past the cat unseen. tree →
- Germs are unseen, so wash your hands. tree →
- We read an unseen poem in the test. tree →
- An unseen hand pushed the door open in the story. tree →
- The fox stayed unseen in the long grass. tree →
- Many deep-sea animals live unseen by people. tree →
- Only by night did she creep out unseen to procure food for her kittens. tree →
note
Adjective or adverb; «un-» + «seen». «Sight unseen» means without looking first. Unseen does not mean not there: air and germs are unseen but real.
In the corpora
- Most volcanic activity happens unseen on the ocean floor, along the mid-ocean ridges where new crust is made.
- Most of the Earth's volcanic activity happens unseen on the ocean floor along mid-ocean ridges.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «unseen» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.