view

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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 and vista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vjuː/, /vɪu̯/
• Rhymes: -uː

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
   3. Something to look at, such as scenery.

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

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

   5. (obsolete) Appearance; show; aspect.
2. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.

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

   5. An intention or prospect.
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

• (antonym(s) of “part of computer program”): model, controller

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Descendants

• → Japanese: ビュー (byū)
• → Korean: 뷰 (byu)
• → Persian: ویو (viyu)

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To look at.
2. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.

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

Unadapted borrowing from English view.

Pronunciation

• Homophones: viu, vil (Brazil)

Noun

view f (plural views)

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

   Synonym: visão

2. (Internet) view (individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user)

   Synonym: visualização