line of sight
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3.5
- noun
- /laɪn əv saɪt/
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línea de visión
- To get a proper signal, you need a clear line of sight to the antenna.
- a clear line of sight
- the observer's line of sight
- line of sight to a distant
They stay sort of parallel to your line of sight.
- They stay sort of parallel to your line of sight.
- So if I just put this let's say for example right here and it does need line of sight, give it a second.
- And it happens to pass, from our perspective and our line of sight in front of that X-ray source.
- This is still you're responsible for keeping line of sight to your car and taking control of it any time.
- But the stuff that's farther out is gas and dust and and it obscures your line of sight from the side.
- So in space they move like that and imagine that we're lucky and that they are at this angle to our line of sight.
- And what it will do is it'll cause stresses and strains along perpendicular to the line of sight to the pulsar.
Examples
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Also, find a place free of anything that will block your line of sight.
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Ender, my targeting sensor needs a clear line of sight!
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We'll see if we get a good line of sight from there.
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Maybe if we had a direct line of sight.
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Yes, l have a clear line of sight.
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Doc can get a line of sight for up to two miles here.
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We put the dry stream bed in so it would keep that line of sight open to the water.
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That canyon wall is your line of sight, not the heading of your aircraft.
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There's no wind, so it's line of sight, just the way you see it.
Fiction book (1998) -
Unless you have a Direct Line of sight with a torch, you can't see it.
Synonyms
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1.0
The area you can see from one place
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4.8
A clear view from a seat or position to what you are looking at
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3.8
A straight path from your eyes along which you see
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4.4
The line that shows where a person is looking
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase combines 'line' (a straight mark or path) with 'sight' (what is visible) via the standard 'X of Y' compositional pattern, so its meaning as an imaginary straight line from the eye to an object is directly derivable from the parts. This construction is common across languages and follows predictable semantics, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents should understand it.
Etymology
Line of sight: The phrase line of sight comes from the simple image of a straight line from your eye to something you want to 'see'. If anything blocks that sight, it blocks your view, so line of sight means the clear path between you and the object.