different between view vs purpose

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

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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

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?p?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??p?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)p?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English purpos, from Old French purposer (“to propose”), from Latin pr? (“forth”) + pono, hence Latin propono, proponere, with conjugation altered based on poser.

Noun

purpose (countable and uncountable, plural purposes)

1. An objective to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.
2. A result that is desired; an intention.
3. The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination.
   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "[2]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:

     United began with more purpose in the early phase of the second half and Liverpool were grateful for Glen Johnson's crucial block from Young's goalbound shot.
4. The subject of discourse; the point at issue.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

5. The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.

6. (obsolete) Instance; example.

Synonyms

• (target): aim, goal, object, target; See also Thesaurus:goal
• (intention): aim, plan, intention; See also Thesaurus:intention
• (determination): determination, intention, resolution
• (subject of discourse): matter, subject, topic
• (reason for doing something): reason

Hyponyms

• common purpose
• metapurpose

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Etymology 2

From Middle English purposen, from Old French purposer (“to propose”).

Verb

purpose (third-person singular simple present purposes, present participle purposing, simple past and past participle purposed)

1. (transitive) To have set as one's purpose; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
2. (transitive, passive) To design for some purpose. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To discourse.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Derived terms

• purposed
• purposer
• purposive
• on purpose

Synonyms

• (have set as one's purpose): aim, intend, mean, plan, set out
• (designed for some purpose): intended

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References

• “purpose” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “purpose”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• "purpose" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.