preview

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ view; compare Old French preveü, past participle of preveoir (“to foresee”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːvjuː/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

preview (plural previews)

1. An experience of something in advance.

   Synonym: foretaste

   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].

2. (colloquial) An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
3. Something seen in advance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. (computing) a facility for seeing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving and/or printing it.

Synonyms

• forelook
• foreview

Translations

foretaste of something

• Dutch: voorsmaak (nl) m, voorsmaakje (nl) n, voorproef (nl) f, voorproefje (nl) n
• Finnish: esimaku
• French: aperçu (fr) m
• German: Vorschau (de) f, Vorblick m
• Greek: προεπισκόπηση (el) f (proepiskópisi)
• Hindi: झलक (hi) f (jhalak), प्रस्तुतीकरण (hi) m (prastutīkraṇ)
• Hungarian: betekintés (hu), betekintő, ízelítő (hu)
• Italian: assaggio (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پێشبینی‎ (ku) (pêşbînî)

• Polish: przedsmak m
• Portuguese: prévia f
• Russian: предвкуше́ние (ru) n (predvkušénije)
• Swedish: förhandsvisning (sv), försmak c, glimt (sv) c

advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.

• Bulgarian: предвари́телен пре́глед m (predvarítelen prégled)
• Dutch: voorproefje (nl) n, avant-première (nl) f, voorvertoning (nl) f
• German: Vorschau (de) f, Voraufführung (de) f, Preview (de) f or m or n
• Greek: πρώτη προβολή f (próti provolí)
• Hindi: झलक (hi) f (jhalak), प्रस्तुतीकरण (hi) m (prastutīkraṇ)
• Hungarian: előzetes (hu), előbemutató
• Icelandic: stikla f
• Italian: anteprima (it) f, visione in anteprima f
• Japanese: 試写会 (ししゃかい, shishakai)
• Korean: 미리보기 (miribogi)
• Malay: pratonton, previu, treler
• Polish: prapremiera (pl) f
• Portuguese: antestreia (pt) f
• Russian: предвари́тельный просмо́тр m (predvarítelʹnyj prosmótr), предосмо́тр m (predosmótr)
• Spanish: preestreno m
• Swedish: förhandsvisning (sv) c

something seen in advance

• Dutch: voorschouw f
• Polish: podgląd (pl) m
• Russian: предосмо́тр m (predosmótr)
• Serbo-Croatian: pregled (sh) m

computing facility

• Finnish: esikatselu (fi)
• Galician: previsualización f
• Hindi: पूर्वावलोकन (pūrvāvlokan)
• Hungarian: előnézet (hu), (before printing) nyomtatási kép
• Italian: previsualizzazione f
• Maori: arokitenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forhåndsvisning (no) m or f

• Portuguese: pré-visualização f
• Russian: предвари́тельный просмо́тр m (predvarítelʹnyj prosmótr), предосмо́тр m (predosmótr)
• Spanish: previsualización f, vista previa f, vista preliminar f
• Tigrinya: ቅድመ ትርኢት (ḳədmä tərʾit)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} antaŭmontro
• French: ^{(please verify)} avant-première (fr) f, ^{(please verify)} aperçu (fr) m

Verb

preview (third-person singular simple present previews, present participle previewing, simple past and past participle previewed)

1. To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.
2. (computing) To show something in advance, a facility for seeing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving and/or printing it.

Translations

to show something in advance

• French: diffuser (fr)
• Indonesian: pratayang (id)
• Maori: arokite
• Swedish: förhandsvisa (sv)

computing: to see something in advance

• Finnish: esikatsella (fi)
• French: prévoir (fr), prévisualiser (fr)
• Galician: previsualizar
• Italian: previsualizzare
• Portuguese: pré-visualizar
• Spanish: previsualizar