view
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veue f (French vue f), feminine past participle of veoir (“to see”) (French voir). Cognate with Italian vedere, as well as Portuguese and Spanish ver. Doublet of veduta and vista.
Inflected forms:
form: views
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: views
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: viewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: viewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: viewed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Visual perception.
pos: noun
tags: physical
examples: He changed seats to get a complete view of the stage.
Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view.
, Book II, Chapter XXI
Objects near our view are apt to be thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote.
But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
gloss: Visual perception.
pos: noun
tags: physical
examples: If there are any rabbits in this park, they keep carefully out of our view.
The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.
gloss: Visual perception.
pos: noun
tags: physical
examples: My flat has a view of a junkyard.
the view from a window
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
"Well, there don't seem to be any what you might call views about here," he agreed. […] "I've been through the Willawee Ranges forty miles west of here, and I can guarantee the views there."
At Bleiken (50 miles), for the first time the Randsfjord comes into view, and a very lovely view it is, of the long winding island-studded lake with wooded shores and small sandy bays.
gloss: Visual perception.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
physical
examples: That video got a million views.
His other song, “Nepal Haseko,” became an anthem during last year's protests, and already has more than 10 million views on YouTube.
gloss: Visual perception.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
physical
examples: [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.
gloss: A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
pos: noun
examples: a fine view of Lake George
gloss: An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
pos: noun
examples: I think I have fairly broad views on the whole.
“I believe deep inside everyone's heart is an underlying loneliness,” he says. Humanity longs for another species with comparable intelligence. AGI, in his view, isn’t just a profit engine but a companion on our civilizational journey.
gloss: An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
pos: noun
examples: I need more information to get a better view of the situation.
I have with exact view perused thee, Hector.
gloss: An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
pos: noun
examples: Your view on evolution is based on religious doctrines, not on scientific findings.
to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty
There hasn’t been much polling data on consumer views of gene-edited foods, because they are still so new.
gloss: An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
pos: noun
examples: From my view that is a stupid proposition.
gloss: An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
pos: noun
examples: He smuggled a knife into prison with a view to using it as a weapon.
No man ever sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason for what he does
With this view, they made a Guy Faux, or dummy figure of a boy, dressed in coat and cap; such as might in a poor light be mistaken for a living figure.
gloss: A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
pos: noun
gloss: A wake.
pos: noun
gloss: To look at.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The video was viewed by millions of people.
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
gloss: To regard in a stated way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I view it as a serious breach of trust.
Antonyms: model
controller
Related words: see
look
voyeur
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