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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French facette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæs?t/
• Rhymes: -æs?t

Noun

facet (plural facets)

1. Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.

2. One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.

   Synonym: aspect

   The child's learning disability was only one facet of the problems contributing to his delinquency.

3. One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.

   We had just about completed the research facet of the project when the order came to cancel it.

4. (anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
5. (anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.

   the articular facet of a bone

6. (anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
7. (architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.
8. (mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
9. (computing) A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.

Derived terms

• multifaceted
• facetal

Translations

Verb

facet (third-person singular simple present facets, present participle faceting or facetting, simple past and past participle faceted or facetted)

1. To cut a facet into a gemstone.

Usage notes

• Faceting and faceted are more common in the US. Facetting and facetted are more common in the UK.

Translations

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French facette (“facet”), diminutive of face.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fas?t/, [fa?s?d?]

Noun

facet c (singular definite facetten, plural indefinite facetter)

1. facet

Declension

Further reading

• facet on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• “facet” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French facette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa??s?t/
• Hyphenation: fa?cet
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

facet n (plural facetten, diminutive facetje n)

1. facet

Derived terms

• facetoog

Descendants

• Afrikaans: faset
• ? Indonesian: faset

Polish

Etymology

From Latin fac?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa.t?s?t/

Noun

facet m pers (diminutive facecik, feminine facetka)

1. (colloquial) guy, fellow, chap

Declension

Further reading

• facet in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• facet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vju?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

view (plural views)

1. (physical) Visual perception.
   1. The act of seeing or looking at something.
      • , Book II, Chapter XXI

        Objects near our view are apt to be thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote.
   2. The range of vision.

      Synonyms: sight, eyeshot

      • The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.

   3. Something to look at, such as scenery.

      Synonym: vista

      • 1799, Thomas Campbell, s:The Pleasures of Hope

        'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.

   4. (Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user.

      Synonyms: (of a webpage) pageview, (of a video) play

   5. (obsolete) Appearance; show; aspect.
      • c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece

        [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.

2. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.

3. An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
   1. A mental image.
   2. A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.

      • to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty
   3. A point of view.

   4. An intention or prospect.

      • No man ever sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason for what he does

4. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
5. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
6. A wake. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Antonyms

• (part of computer program): model, controller

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

view (third-person singular simple present views, present participle viewing, simple past and past participle viewed)

1. (transitive) To look at.

   The video was viewed by millions of people.
2. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.

   I view it as a serious breach of trust.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deem

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• see
• look
• voyeur

Anagrams

• wive

Middle English

Noun

view

1. Alternative form of vewe

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English view.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /viw/
• Homophone: viu

Noun

view f (plural views)

1. (databases) view (logical table formed from data from physical tables)

   Synonym: visão