Crossword clues for seeing
seeing
- Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- Come together
- Be careful or certain to do something
- Consider or deem to be
- Discernment
- "___ is believing"
- Vision coming through slowly, having no power
- In view of the fact that
- It's believing, in a saying
- Taking in
- Keeping company with
- It's believing?
- ___-eye dog
- They say it's believing
- Taking in the sights?
- Start of a "show me" maxim
- It's believing, reportedly
- It's believing, it's said
- It's believing
- Going steady with
- Equivalent of believing
- Dating regularly
- Believing, they say
- Believing, so they say
- Believing, metaphorically
- "The eye is not satisfied with __": Eccles
- "--- is believing"
- ____ is believing
- Inasmuch (as)
- Involved with
- Going out with
- ...
- Going with
- Romantically involved with
- On intimate social terms with
- Grasping
- Observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- Take charge of or deal with
- Receive as a specified guest
- Date regularly
- Have a steady relationship with
- Deliberate or decide
- Go or live through
- Match or meet in card games
- Make sense of
- Assign a meaning to
- Visit a place, as for entertainment
- Observe as if with an eye
- Use of the faculty of vision
- Make certain of something
- Perception by means of the eyes
- Perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- Perceive mentally, as of an idea
- Perceive with any or all of one's senses
- Accompany or escort
- Regard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seeing \See"ing\, conj. (but originally a present participle). In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young.
Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me?
--Gen.
xxvi. 27.
See \See\ (s[=e]), v. t. [imp. Saw (s[add]); p. p. Seen (s[=e]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Seeing.] [OE. seen, sen, seon, AS. se['o]n; akin to OFries. s[=i]a, D. zien, OS. & OHG. sehan, G. sehen, Icel. sj[=a], Sw. se, Dan. see, Goth. sa['i]hwan, and probably to L. sequi to follow (and so originally meaning, to follow with the eyes). Gr. "e`pesqai, Skr. sac. Cf. Sight, Sue to follow.]
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To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.
I will now turn aside, and see this great sight.
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To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.
Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren.
--Gen. xxxvii. 14.Jesus saw that he answered discreetly.
--Mark xii. 34.Who's so gross That seeth not this palpable device?
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To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentively; to look after.
--Shak.I had a mind to see him out, and therefore did not care for contradicting him.
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To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend.
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death.
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5. To fall in with; to meet or associate with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service.
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
--Ps. xc. 15.Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
--John viii. 51.Improvement in wisdom and prudence by seeing men.
--Locke. To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
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In poker and similar games at cards, to meet (a bet), or to equal the bet of (a player), by staking the same sum. ``I'll see you and raise you ten.''
God you see (or God him see or God me see, etc.), God keep you (him, me, etc.) in his sight; God protect you. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.To see (anything) out, to see (it) to the end; to be present at, work at, or attend, to the end.
To see stars, to see flashes of light, like stars; -- sometimes the result of concussion of the head. [Colloq.]
To see (one) through, to help, watch, or guard (one) to the end of a course or an undertaking.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, present participle adjective from see (v.). Seeing Eye dog first attested 1929, American English, trademarked by Seeing Eye Inc. of New Jersey.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
Having vision; not blind. n. 1 The action of the verb '''to see'''; eyesight. 2 (context astronomy English) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere. v
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(present participle of see English) Etymology 2
conj. (context slang English) inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
WordNet
adj. having vision, not blind
n. perception by means of the eyes [syn: visual perception, beholding]
normal use of the faculty of vision [syn: eyesight, sightedness]
Wikipedia
Seeing may refer to:
- Visual perception
- Astronomical seeing, the blurring effects of air turbulence in the atmosphere
- In the occult seeing refers to "the sight" or the ability to see auras or to predict the future; see fortune-telling
- Seeing (novel), the English title of José Saramago's 2004 novel Ensaio sobre a Lucidez
- "Seeing", a song on the Moby Grape album Moby Grape '69
- Seeing (composition), 1998 piano concerto by Christopher Rouse
Seeing (, lit. Essay on Lucidity) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese author José Saramago. It was published in Portuguese in 2004 and in English in 2006. It is a sequel to one of his most famous works, Blindness.
Seeing is a concerto for solo piano and orchestra by the American composer Christopher Rouse. The work was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for the pianist Emanuel Ax, with financial contributions from philanthropists Lillian and Maurice Barbash. It was premiered at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City May 6, 1999, with Leonard Slatkin conducting Emanuel Ax and the New York Philharmonic. The piece is dedicated to Emanuel Ax.
Usage examples of "seeing".
After seeing Abie Singleton at the club last night, he suspected sleep was to become but a bitter memory.
Though Abigail had averred his invitation, she had offered to assuage his disappointment by seeing him off.
O Queen Rabesqurat, the haven of our voyage was Aklis, and we feared delay, seeing the fire of the mountain ablaze with expectations of us.
The wharf guards are so used to seeing me shuffle past, they would not notice if Abri turned tumbles under my coat.
Beside myself with rage, blushing for very shame, seeing but too late the fault I had committed by accepting the society of a scoundrel, I went up to my room, and hurriedly packed up my carpet-bag.
However, as Jones persisted in his desire of seeing him, a vociferous drawer at length found means to disturb his slumbers, and to acquaint him with the message.
He thought angrily of the pleasure he would have at seeing the fright of that small and frail but proud man when covered by his pistol, and then he felt with surprise that of all the men he knew there was none he would so much like to have for a friend as that very adjutant whom he so hated.
For a moment he considered finding the admin complex and seeing if they would tell him where Patterson would be living.
Matter, by the faculties of the Soul that operate and by the nature of their operation, whether seeing, acting, or merely admitting impression.
Without more ado I locked the door, took off my clothes, and seeing that her back was turned to me, jumped into bed beside her.
She begged me to go into her sitting-room while she dressed, and we then went down and dined with the wretched secretary, who adored her, whom she did not love, and who must have borne small love to me, seeing how high I stood in her graces.
The male Relidose stood silently afrown, seeing, perhaps for the first time, the madness which filled the male called High Seat.
She described seeing the bier of King Agates Sealender and listening in on the conversation between the castellan and the priest.
Hunt Week in hope of seeing the beauteous Lady Agatine Slegin and her ladies.
If it were a case of agnosia, the patient would now be seeing what he had always seen, that is to say, there would have been no diminution of his visual powers, his brain would simply have been incapable of recognising a chair wherever there happened to be a chair, in other words, he would continue to react correctly to the luminous stimuli leading to the optic nerve, but, to use simple terms within the grasp of the layman, he would have lost the capacity to know what he knew and, moreover, to express it.