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view
- /vjuː/
- /vɪu̯/
Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
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.
noun views
- The act of seeing or looking at something. He changed seats to get a complete view of the stage.
- The range of vision. If there are any rabbits in this park, they keep carefully out of our view.
- Something to look at, such as scenery. My flat has a view of a junkyard.
- An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user. That video got a million views.
- Appearance; show; aspect. [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.
- A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch. a fine view of Lake George
- A mental image. I need more information to get a better view of the situation.
- A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory. Your view on evolution is based on religious doctrines, not on scientific findings.
- A point of view. From my view that is a stupid proposition.
- An intention or prospect. He smuggled a knife into prison with a view to using it as a weapon.
- A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
- The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with.
- A wake.
verb views · viewing · viewed
- To look at. The video was viewed by millions of people.
- To regard in a stated way. I view it as a serious breach of trust.
