Word Meanings - VIEW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

voir, p. p. vu, fr. L. videre to see. See Vision, and cl. Interview, 1. The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection. Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view. Milton. Objects near our view are

Additional info about word: VIEW

voir, p. p. vu, fr. L. videre to see. See Vision, and cl. Interview, 1. The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection. Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view. Milton. Objects near our view are thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote. Locke. Surveying nature with too nice a view. Dryden. 2. Mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case. I have with exact view perused thee, Hector. Shak. 3. Power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect. The walls of Pluto's palace are in view. Dryden. 4. That which is seen or beheld; sight presented to the natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window. 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view. Campbell. 5. The pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, as, a fine view of Lake George. 6. Mode of looking at anything; manner of apprehension; conception; opinion; judgment; as, to state one's views of the policy which ought to be pursued. To give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty. Locke. 7. That which is looked towards, or kept in sight, as object, aim, intention, purpose, design; as, he did it with a view of escaping. No man sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason. Locke. 8. Appearance; show; aspect. which, by the splendor of her view Dazzled, before we never knew. Waller. Field of view. See under Field. -- Point of view. See under Point. -- To have in view, to have in mind as an incident, object, or aim; as, to have one's resignation in view. -- View halloo, the shout uttered by a hunter upon seeing the fox break cover. -- View of frankpledge , a court of record, held in a hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone. -- View of premises , the inspection by the jury of the place where a litigated transaction is said to have occurred.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VIEW)

• Aspect
• Front
• face
• phase
• side
• appearance
• presentation
• exhibition
• exposure
• feature
• view
• air
• mien
• deportment
• countenance
• bearing
• complexion
• sight
• Behold
• Look
• discern
• regard
• descry
• look upon
• gaze
• contemplate
• observe
• see
• scan
• survey
• Construction
• Composition
• fabrication
• explanation
• rendering
• erection
• fabric
• edifice
• reading
• understanding
• interpretation
• Gaze
• Stare
• behold
• glower
• gloat
• fulfill
• Design
• purpose
• intention
• drift
• meaning
• purport
• aim

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VIEW)

• Oppose
• confront
• discourage
• discountenance
• browbeat
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge

Related words: (words related to VIEW)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• FRONTIERSMAN
  A man living on the frontier.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• FRONTIERED
  Placed on the frontiers.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• PURPORTLESS
  Without purport or meaning.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• STAR-READ
  Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy. Which in star-read were wont have best insight. Spenser.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.