seeing
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
seeing
- present participle of see
- 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
Derived terms
Adjective
seeing (not comparable)
Synonyms
Translations
having vision; not blind
Noun
seeing (countable and uncountable, plural seeings)
- The action of the verb to see; eyesight.
- 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
- 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
- (astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
Translations
the action of the verb to see; eyesight
the movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere
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Etymology 2
Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".
Conjunction
seeing
- (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
- Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.
Translations
inasmuch as; in view of the fact
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Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English seeing.
Pronunciation
Noun
seeing
- (astronomy) seeing (the movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere)
Declension
Inflection of seeing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | seeing | seeingit | |
genitive | seeingin | seeingien | |
partitive | seeingiä | seeingejä | |
illative | seeingiin | seeingeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | seeing | seeingit | |
accusative | nom. | seeing | seeingit |
gen. | seeingin | ||
genitive | seeingin | seeingien | |
partitive | seeingiä | seeingejä | |
inessive | seeingissä | seeingeissä | |
elative | seeingistä | seeingeistä | |
illative | seeingiin | seeingeihin | |
adessive | seeingillä | seeingeillä | |
ablative | seeingiltä | seeingeiltä | |
allative | seeingille | seeingeille | |
essive | seeinginä | seeingeinä | |
translative | seeingiksi | seeingeiksi | |
abessive | seeingittä | seeingeittä | |
instructive | — | seeingein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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