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view
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)
- (physical) Visual perception.
- 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.
- , Book II, Chapter XXI
- The range of vision.
- Synonyms: sight, eyeshot
- The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.
- Something to look at, such as scenery.
- Synonym: vista
- 1799, Thomas Campbell, s:The Pleasures of Hope
- 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
- (Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user.
- Synonyms: (of a webpage) pageview, (of a video) play
- (obsolete) Appearance; show; aspect.
- c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece
- [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.
- c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece
- The act of seeing or looking at something.
- A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
- An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
- A mental image.
- A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
- to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty
- A point of view.
- 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
- A mental image.
- (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
- (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
- 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)
- (transitive) To look at.
- The video was viewed by millions of people.
- (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
- Alternative form of vewe
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English view.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /viw/
- Homophone: viu
Noun
view f (plural views)
- (databases) view (logical table formed from data from physical tables)
- Synonym: visão
view From the web:
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- how to email the view
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gawk
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k/
- Rhymes: -??k
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /??k/
Etymology 1
From a variant of gowk, from Middle English gowke, goke, from Old Norse gaukr (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”). Cognate with Danish gøg, Swedish gök, German Gauch, Old English ??ac. More at yeke.
Compare also French gauche, and English gawky and gallock.
Noun
gawk (plural gawks)
- A cuckoo.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- A fool; a simpleton; a stupid or clumsy person.
- 1855 Thomas Carlyle, The Prinzenraub, Westminster Review
- A Duke of Weissenfels, for instance; foolish old gawk, whom Wilhehnina Princess Royal recollects for his distracted notions, — which were well shaken out of him by Wilhelmina's Brother afterwards.
- 1855 Thomas Carlyle, The Prinzenraub, Westminster Review
Translations
Etymology 2
Perhaps from English dialectal gaw (“to stare; gawk”) +? -k, as in talk, stalk, etc., ultimately from Old Norse gá (“to heed”).
Verb
gawk (third-person singular simple present gawks, present participle gawking, simple past and past participle gawked)
- To stare or gape stupidly.
- To stare conspicuously.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stare
Derived terms
- gawker
Translations
References
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