person individual someone somebody mortal soul | a human being, there was too much for one person to do |
visual display unit VDU | (British) British term for video display |
appearance visual aspect | outward or visible aspect of a person or thing |
visual property | an attribute of vision |
visual range | distance at which a given standard object can be seen with the unaided eye |
person | a human body (usually including the clothing), a weapon was hidden on his person |
visual system | the sensory system for vision |
visual cell | one of the cells of the retina that is sensitive to light |
visual area visual cortex | the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus |
striate cortex striate area first visual area area of Brodmann Brodmann's are | the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision |
sight vision visual sense visual modality | the ability to see, the visual faculty |
acuity visual acuity sharp-sightedness | sharpness of vision, the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart) |
visual perception beholding seeing | perception by means of the eyes |
visual space | the visual perception of space |
vision visual sensation | the perceptual experience of seeing, the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision, he had a visual sensation of intense light |
visual percept visual image | a percept that arises from the eyes, an image in the visual system |
visual field field of vision field of regard | all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment |
visual image visualization visualisation | a mental image that is similar to a visual perception |
person | a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party, stop talking about yourself in the third person |
first person | pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur |
second person | pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur |
third person | pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur |
sight gag visual joke | a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie) |
visual communication | communication that relies on vision |
visual signal | a signal that involves visual communication |
people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively, old people, there were at least people in the audience |
business people businesspeople | people who transact business (especially business executives) |
country people countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment, rustics |
country people countryfolk | people living in the same country, compatriots |
folk folks common people | people in general (often used in the plural), they're just country folk, folks around here drink moonshine, the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next |
free free people | people who are free, the home of the free and the brave |
color colour people of color people of colour | a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks) |
people | members of a family line, his people have been farmers for generations, are your people still alive? |
Irish National Liberation Army INLA People's Liberation Army People's Republican Army Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Mujahidin-e Khalq Organization MKO MEK People's Mujahidin of Iran | a terrorist organization formed in the s by children of Iranian merchants, sought to counter the Shah of Iran's pro-western policies of modernization and opposition to communism, following a philosophy that mixes Marxism and Islam it now attacks the Islamic fundamentalists who deposed the Shah |
New People's Army NPA | a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government, uses hit squads called Sparrow Units, opposes United States military presence in the Philippines |
People against Gangsterism and Drugs PAGAD | a terrorist organization in South Africa formed in to fight drug lords, evolved into a vigilante group with anti-western views closely allied with Qibla, is believed to have ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East, is suspected of conducting bouts of urban terrorism |
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party Revolutionary People's Liberation Front | an extreme Marxist terrorist organization in Turkey that is opposed to NATO and the United States, attacks Turkish security and military officials |
Revolutionary People's Struggle ELA | an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from to , a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the United States |
citizenry people | the body of citizens of a state or country, the Spanish people |
poor people poor | people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group), the urban poor need assistance |
rich people rich | people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group), only the very rich benefit from this legislation |
multitude masses mass hoi polloi people the great unwashed | the common people generally, separate the warriors from the mass, power to the people |
People's Party Populist Party | a former political party in the United States, formed in to advocate currency expansion and state control of railroads |
flower people hippies hipsters | a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the s, advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs, favored acid rock and progressive rock music |
ruling class people in power | the class of people exerting power or authority |
unemployed people unemployed | people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group), the long-term unemployed need assistance |
chosen people | any people believing themselves to be chosen by God |
China People's Republic of China mainland China Communist China Red China PRC Cathay | a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia, the most populous country in the world |
Bangladesh People's Republic of Bangladesh Bangla Desh East Pakistan | a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south, formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan, it achieved independence in |