unseen

«unseen» in Mova's school dictionary: not seen or not noticed by anyone — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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 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.