different between surmise vs view

English

Etymology

From Old French surmis, past participle of surmetre, surmettre (“to accuse”), from sur- (“upon”) + metre (“to put”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s???ma?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s??ma?z/
• Hyphenation: sur?mise

Noun

surmise (countable and uncountable, plural surmises)

1. Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
2. Reflection; thought; posit.

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Verb

surmise (third-person singular simple present surmises, present participle surmising, simple past and past participle surmised)

1. To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.

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Further reading

• surmise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• surmise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• misuser

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy?.miz/
• Homophones: surmisent, surmises

Verb

surmise

1. first-person singular present indicative of surmiser
2. third-person singular present indicative of surmiser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of surmiser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of surmiser
5. second-person singular imperative of surmiser

Anagrams

• mûrisse

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

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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

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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