What's the difference between invisible and unseen?

Invisible


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible.
  • (n.) An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.
  • (n.) A Rosicrucian; -- so called because avoiding declaration of his craft.
  • (n.) One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Long-standing providers preferred a categorical approach in order to maintain a diverse political coalition for an historically invisible service.
  • (2) Warts were confined to the lips in 27 (56%) of 48 patients with meatal warts; in an additional 5 patients with meatal warts the warts arose from deep in the fossa navicularis and in 16 patients with meatal warts there were additional warts in the fossa navicularis invisible on clinical examination.
  • (3) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (4) Following his exposure of racism in Invisible Man, a sequel, Juneteenth, was left uncompleted at his death in 1994.
  • (5) But while he may remain fairly invisible on the campaign trail for a while longer, his presence is already being felt behind closed doors.
  • (6) This model of care treats the general milestones of pregnancy while completely ignoring the patient, making their needs almost invisible to the health system.
  • (7) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
  • (8) The 154 grossly invisible foci of argyrophil cell microproliferation thus detected were classified into three stages of microproliferations (I, II, and III), and the last stage was definitely a microcarcinoid.
  • (9) In 35 tumors smaller than 2 cm, invisible tumors were 66% and nonpalpable tumors were 63%.
  • (10) I can't pull an invisibility cloak over my house – nor would I wish to," she said, a little wistfully, as if she really wished she had Harry Potter's magic powers.
  • (11) The best senior staff are discreet, disciplined, hard-working, collaborative and almost invisible.
  • (12) You can date the phrase back further, to 1998, when Peggy McIntosh used the word "privilege" in her essay White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack .
  • (13) Her one-off two-hour drama To Walk Invisible, based on the lives of the three Brontë sisters, will debut this month.
  • (14) What differentiates Internet of Things devices from the PCs, tablets and smartphones that came before them is their invisibility.
  • (15) The paint whooshed down through the freshwater, but as soon as it hit the saltwater it was repelled, spreading out laterally as if the pigment had hit an invisible horizon.
  • (16) The rate of invisible metastasis to the diaphragm was 20% in our experimental study.
  • (17) Yet it seems to be that aspect of the invisibility of the URLs that's really troubling the people who are lobbying Mandelson (because this is obviously not something he's discovered from surfing the net; I do, a lot, and I've not seen anyone complaining about the Evil of Cyberlocker Copyright Infringement).
  • (18) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
  • (19) Wendy Mead, who chairs the corporation’s environment committee, said: “Diesel was sold as an environmental solution but it is in fact an invisible killer.
  • (20) Other cities, such as London, have cleaned their rivers not just of visual garbage but also invisible pollutants.

Unseen


Definition:

  • (a.) Not seen or discovered.
  • (a.) Unskilled; inexperienced.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The number of killings in Iraq has reached levels unseen since 2008 in recent months and Sunday's attacks bring the death toll across the country in October to 545, according to an Associated Press count.
  • (2) Concentrate on the way he constructs the space of an interior or orchestrates a sensual camera movement that he invented himself - the camera gliding on unseen tracks in one direction while uncannily panning in another direction - and you perceive how each Dreyer film almost brutally reconstructs the universe rather than accepting it as a familiar given.
  • (3) The documentary, Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait?, is due to air on BBC2 on Boxing Day.
  • (4) Cultural anthropologists in America have begun a glossary for what they call “an Anthropocene as yet unseen”, intended as a “resource” for confronting the “urgent concerns of the present moment”.
  • (5) • Students will have read texts from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries in preparation for an 'unseen texts' exam component.
  • (6) Close your eyes and imagine a teacher at an underperforming comprehensive, struggling to cope with relentless pressure from students, parents and governors – not to mention the unseen threat of Ofsted – and keeping going only by remembering that they made a vow years before.
  • (7) For two and a half years the faxes disappeared into the inner workings of Paisley Park (which, it turned out, actually looked like a B&Q warehouse), unacknowledged, unanswered, and, for all we knew, unseen.
  • (8) Because of the existence of formerly "unseen," unextractable residues, the concept of "persistent" and "nonpersistent" pesticide residues might have to be reconsidered.
  • (9) The revised exam will require the analysis of unseen texts, which the DfE says will reward students who have read widely.
  • (10) For the most part, their journeys pass unseen, until they hit a barrier – the English Channel; the lines of police at Ventimiglia on the Italy-France border; the forests of Macedonia – that creates a bottleneck and leads to scenes of destitution and chaos.
  • (11) I imagine the unseen rooms, and scenes from Edward Hopper.
  • (12) His live shows begin with a skit mocking the pipsqueak talents of Jimi Hendrix: what price expanding the vocabulary of the rock guitar in a way unseen before or since when compared to a man from Penarth singing Yakety Yak?
  • (13) The presenter was accused by the Daily Mirror of using the language in what appeared to be an unseen clip from the BBC2 show.
  • (14) Together, these studies demonstrate that subjects could not usually detect the lateral orientation of previously-seen or of unseen photographs of faces.
  • (15) An extraordinary group of hitherto unseen colour photographs by Robert Capa , one of the 20th century's greatest photojournalists, is to be seen for the first time.
  • (16) The site, called t he Intercept , reported Monday that the National Security Agency has used cell phone geolocation to help pinpoint targets for US drone strikes overseas, and published previously unseen photographs of major US intelligence facilities.
  • (17) Previously unseen evidence of atrocities emerged during the case when colonial-era files withheld from the National Archives were discovered by historians working with the claimants' lawyers.
  • (18) By his own lofty standards Cavendish's return of two stage wins from this year's Tour has been paltry and myriad signs of hitherto unseen fallibility, a team that is clearly not good enough to work in his service and suggestions that his star is on the wane will leave him with much to ponder.
  • (19) No group differences in the ability to correctly predict the unseen plant's outcome were obtained.
  • (20) The investigation and adjudication process operates in most parts unseen and unheard,” he said.