unfamiliar terrain

collocation in English

meaningsofunfamiliarandterrain

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unfamiliar
adjective
uk
/ʌn.fəˈmɪl.i.ər/us
/ʌn.fəˈmɪl.i.jɚ/
not known ...
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terrain
noun[U]
uk
/təˈreɪn/us
/təˈreɪn/
an area of land, when considering its ...
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(Definition ofunfamiliarandterrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is vital for the judgment about a person's mobility to be tested onunfamiliarterrain, so that independent walking ability rather than walking from memory is tested.
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The test for the mobility component should be made more effective for blind and partially sighted people who lose their independent mobility if they try to walk onunfamiliarterrain.
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We want to devise an abstract test of what a claimant's mobility would be like when he was onunfamiliarterrain.
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Others, who are very few in numbers, are explorers, people who venture off and discover new paths and to map outunfamiliarterrain.
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They had the furthest to travel over completelyunfamiliarterrainand never got close to their objective.
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However, this forced the armies to use guides and scouts when they crossedunfamiliarterrain, since their extremely generalized maps could not guide them.
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Pilots were trained at night, overunfamiliarterrain, and forced to rely on their instruments for direction.
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In other cases they might have walked endlessly throughunfamiliarterrain, or were rendered completely paralyzed, unable to move or speak.
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The film employs little dialog and the boys escape through rugged andunfamiliarterrainis interpolated with dreams, memories, hallucinations, fantasies, and flashbacks.
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