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View

noun

1.

A way of regarding situations or topics etc.. Synonyms: perspective, position.

2.

The visual percept of a region. Synonyms: aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, vista.

3.

The act of looking or seeing or observing. Synonyms: sight, survey. "His survey of the battlefield was limited"

4.

The range of the eye. Synonym: eyeshot.

5.

A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty. Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, sentiment, thought. "I am not of your persuasion" , "What are your thoughts on Haiti?"

6.

A message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof. Synonym: opinion.

7.

Purpose; the phrase 'with a view to' means 'with the intention of' or 'for the purpose of'.

8.

Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept. Synonym: scene. "Figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment"

9.

The range of interest or activity that can be anticipated. Synonyms: horizon, purview.

10.

Outward appearance.

verb

(past & past part. viewed; pres. part. viewing)

1.

Deem to be. Synonyms: consider, reckon, regard, see. "I consider her to be shallow" , "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

2.

Look at carefully; study mentally. Synonyms: consider, look at.

3.

See or watch. Synonyms: catch, see, take in, watch. "This program will be seen all over the world" , "View an exhibition" , "Catch a show on Broadway" , "See a movie"

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"View" Quotes from Famous Books

... planned to take up six volumes; and writing to a friend at this time he promises to say much in it that has not been said before him. Furthermore, he intended to follow this work with a universal history in eight volumes with a view to establishing, as far as may be gathered, Little Russia and the world in proper relation, connecting the two; a quixotic task, surely. A poet, passionate, religious, loving the heroic, we find him constantly impatient and fuming at the lifeless chronicles, ...

— Taras Bulba and Other Tales • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... a level drive between beautiful park-like grass-stretches, down in the valley. It was a delightful place for learning to ride a bicycle, but open in full view of all the world. Alvina would have died of shame. She began to laugh nervously and hurriedly at the ...

— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence

... after his first baptism of fire, after his first view of the shattered mutilated remnants of a shell-stricken body, that the infantryman turns towards where invisible German guns from comparative safety belch forth death, and shakes his impotent fist at this ...

— Norman Ten Hundred - A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry • A. Stanley Blicq

... of reading matter they may suppose themselves entitled to, we can issue a double number on Saturday, as is done by many evening papers that make no attempt at a Sunday edition. I am convinced that from a Christian point of view more harm than good has been done by our Sunday morning paper. I do not believe that Jesus would be responsible for it if He were in my place today. It will occasion some trouble to arrange the details caused ...

— In His Steps • Charles M. Sheldon

... from which lamentable history we may conclude how great has been the cruelty of Marcela, the love of Chrysostom, and the sincerity of your friendship; and also learn the end of those who run headlong in the path that delirious passion presents to their view. Last night we heard of Chrysostom's death, and that he was to be interred in this place; led, therefore, by curiosity and compassion, we turned out of our way, and determined to behold with our eyes what had interested us so much in the ...

— Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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