different between vantage vs perspective

English

Alternative forms

• vauntage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English vantage, by apheresis from advantage; see advantage.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v??nt?d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?vænt?d??/

Noun

vantage (countable and uncountable, plural vantages)

1. An advantage.
2. A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
3. A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
   • 1595, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of Richard the Second, Act V, scene iii:

     O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!

4. (dated, tennis) Alternative form of advantage (score after deuce)

Translations

Verb

vantage (third-person singular simple present vantages, present participle vantaging, simple past and past participle vantaged)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To profit; to aid.

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English perspective, perspectif, attested since 1381, from Old French or Middle French, from the first word of the Medieval Latin perspectiva ars (“science of optics”), the feminine of Latin perspectivus (“of sight, optical”), from perspectus, the past participle of perspicere (“to inspect, look through”), itself from per- (“through”) + specere (“to look at”); the noun sense was influenced or mediated by Italian prospettiva, from prospetto (“prospect”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??sp?kt?v/

Noun

perspective (countable and uncountable, plural perspectives)

1. A view, vista or outlook.
2. The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
3. The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
4. (dated) An artwork that represents three-dimensional objects in this way.
5. (figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
6. The ability to consider things in such relative perspective.
7. A perspective glass.
   • 1645, Joseph Hall, The Peace-Maker

     […] our predecessors; who could never have believed, that there were such lunets about some of the planets, as our late perspectives have descried […]

8. A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.

Hyponyms

• linear perspective
• metaperspective
• microperspective

Derived terms

• point-projection perspective
• side-perspective

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

perspective (not comparable)

1. Of, in or relating to perspective.

2. (obsolete) Providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical.
   • 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Seeming Wise

     perspective glasses

Translations

Further reading

• Perspective (graphical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 3D_projection#Perspective_projection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin perspect?vus, from perspici?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.sp?k.tiv/

Noun

perspective f (plural perspectives)

1. perspective
2. prospect

Derived terms

• en perspective

Descendants

• ? Danish: perspektiv
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: perspektiv
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: perspektiv
• ? Swedish: perspektiv

Adjective

perspective

1. feminine singular of perspectif

Further reading

• “perspective” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Verb

perspective

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of perspectivar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of perspectivar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of perspectivar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of perspectivar