out of view
5
2.8
- idiom
:
fuera de vista
- slips out of view
- keep out of view
- moves out of view
By the time I got there they pressed all the buttons and ducked down out of view you know.
- By the time I got there they pressed all the buttons and ducked down out of view you know.
- And so if you have a swarm of objects that come in and out of view, you might think that they're moving really fast, but it's not the same object.
Examples
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Supply boat from the back side of the island, out of view.
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Keep it out of view until the convention speeches actually start.
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The person in the trees watches them ride around the bend, out of view.
Fiction book (1999) -
The ringed planet quickly sinks out of view, passing behind the Sun in early July.
Academic text (2004) -
The asteroid slid out of view as the pilots established a parking orbit around it.
Fiction book (2001) -
Down the hall, a man's figure streaks across a doorway out of view.
Fiction book (1993) -
The car drove past the tree and soon became out of view.
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As the sun set, the mountains gradually disappeared out of view.
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He turned the corner and was out of view in seconds.
Synonyms
65
2.8
You cannot see it from here
1
5.8
Not visible inside a picture or not right for the situation
Not able to be seen
Antonyms
How Visible
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'out of view' is directly compositional: 'out' (away), 'of' (from), and 'view' (sight) combine to mean 'away from sight' — a meaning a B1 learner who knows the parts can readily infer. This prepositional pattern (out of + noun) is common across languages and standard in English, so the MWE is transparently understood from its constituents.
Etymology
Out of view comes from the simple picture of something moving past where you can see it and becoming hidden. It is literally out of your view, so it means 'no longer visible'.