view
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /vjuː/
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[edit] Etymology
From Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veue (French: vue), feminine past participle of veoir (“‘to see’”) (French: voir).
[edit] Noun
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view (plural views)
- The act of seeing or looking at something.
- He changed seat to get a complete view of the stage.
- The range of vision.
- If there are any rabbits in this park, they keep carefully out of our view.
- Something to look at, such as a scenery.
- My flat has a view of a junkyard.
- A picture.
- There was a view of the accident site on the front page.
- A mental image.
- I need more information to get a better view of the situation.
- A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
- Your view on evolution is based on religion, not on scientific findings.
- A point of view.
- From my view that is a stupid proposition.
- An intention or prospect.
- I gave you the money with the view that you would invest it wisely.
- (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, the part the user interacts with; a user interface to the underlying logic of the program.
[edit] Antonyms
- (part of computer program): model, controller
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seeing
range of vision
something to look at
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picture
mental image
way of understanding
point of view
intention
computing: user interface part of program
[edit] Verb
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to view (third-person singular simple present views, present participle viewing, simple past and past participle viewed)
- (transitive) To look at.
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to look at
