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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
viewer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
average
▪ The average viewer should, of course, by now be immune to the trivialisation of religion.
▪ But it also means more ad clutter for the average viewer.
▪ That's not the transmission time, it's the average number of viewers.
male
▪ The ironic male viewer stands apart whilst the women are moved to tears.
remote
▪ Some military remote viewers became bored with Earthly targets and began turning their psychic probing to bigger enigmas.
▪ Advanced remote viewers sometimes work alone, but they usually use a monitor.
▪ In stage three, for example, the remote viewer draws an initial sketch of the target.
▪ He said he and other remote viewers have corroborated important information about extraterrestrials and their interest in humans.
young
▪ Magazine series on wildlife, for younger viewers.
▪ They wanted a new look, and younger viewers.
▪ The young viewers were kept fully informed of developments and on one programme a possible mate was being discussed.
▪ Mr McGahon said he feared Rebecca's appearance could shock young viewers.
■ NOUN
television
▪ Firstly, it is time to accept that television viewers are now totally multi-channel orientated, no longer staying with one channel solely.
▪ The passive role of television viewers simply heightens its effect.
▪ It was Liz's worst scenario coming true, in front of hundreds of millions of television viewers.
▪ What does this mean for a television viewer?
▪ Its endless repeats still attract millions of television viewers.
▪ But all television viewers see the same broadcast.
▪ The jail is familiar to cinema-goers, television viewers and readers of detective stories.
▪ The intent was to allow television viewers the greatest possible access to programming and to foster competition among providers.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Also make sure you have old bills and any guarantees to hand. Allow the viewers to look around on their own.
▪ The intent was to allow television viewers the greatest possible access to programming and to foster competition among providers.
▪ The zoom control would allow the viewer to enlarge any area of the picture displayed.
▪ Multiplayer games are also available, allowing viewers to compete against distant friends or relatives on the network.
▪ Like other forms of Internet advertising, these ads allow viewers to get more information by simply clicking on the screen.
▪ An additional feature allows a viewer to move to any point in the film.
attract
▪ It's local news attracts more viewers than any other region.
▪ That said, attracting viewers is especially challenging.
▪ Formula One is very big business, attracting billions of viewers and multinational sponsors.
▪ Latest figures show it is attracting only 4.4 million viewers.
▪ Its endless repeats still attract millions of television viewers.
▪ The first one, running fifty-five minutes, attracted twenty-four million viewers.
▪ Moving the Nine O'clock News would free a peak slot to attract more viewers with dramas and light entertainment.
draw
▪ In this process, observations and responses are drawn out of a viewer while observing, for example, a painting.
▪ By May, Tejano Country was running in most major markets in Texas and drawing 500, 000 viewers.
give
▪ These characters become real, and may give the lonely viewer the benefits normally derived from being with other people.
▪ Entertainment on-demand is expected to give each viewer total control over what, when, and where to watch.
▪ It was supposed to give viewers an all-year-round holiday feeling.
▪ The gadgetry enables the renegade network to give viewers a puck encased in a blue halo.
▪ This purported to give viewers colour and depth from a drunken double image viewed through red and blue specs.
▪ Adams gives the viewer a garden of stone.
▪ We are committed to giving our viewers and listeners context - to give them the where-with-all to make sense of the world.
▪ The unoccupied places around them must have given television viewers a picture of hosts abandoned by their guests of honour.
leave
▪ But the end result still runs the risk of leaving the viewer with a totally false impression.
▪ A useful rule of documentaries is that re-creations of scenes which occurred before filming always leave the viewer feeling cheated.
▪ The revival was a sold-out success, leaving viewers amazed, he says.
▪ They keep the mood light, and try to leave the viewer with a smile.
reach
▪ Newstalk Television is expected to reach 10 million viewers by August, she said.
▪ A well-publicized rival, Oxygen, just passed its first anniversary trying to reach the same viewers.
show
▪ Mac shows viewers how the big machinery works in the sawmills.
▪ Both had poor ratings in a crowded marketplace, with almost two dozen syndicated talk shows scrapping for viewers every day.
tell
▪ She was expecting a bill of no more than £50 for the short job, presenter John Stapleton told viewers.
▪ They made the announcements as soon as they could to tell viewers they got the message.
▪ Television commentators have given themselves dry throats telling viewers about the imp-like Mota who seems to float effortlessly to the front.
watch
▪ Every episode of Eldorado is still only watched by four million viewers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a programme that appeals to younger viewers
▪ Millions of television viewers tuned in to the president's speech.
▪ Some shows are cancelled before they get a chance to attract any viewers.
▪ The concert was seen by 500 million viewers around the world.
▪ The network is trying to attract younger viewers.
▪ The networks have lost a substantial number of viewers to cable and video rentals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both had poor ratings in a crowded marketplace, with almost two dozen syndicated talk shows scrapping for viewers every day.
▪ But it also means more ad clutter for the average viewer.
▪ He had this intuitive sense of what the viewer wanted.
▪ It's local news attracts more viewers than any other region.
▪ More than 15 million viewers now own a zapper.
▪ The Government said it would widen choice for viewers and listeners, safeguard quality programming and bring greater competition and efficiency.
▪ Ulene is still surprised by the eagerness of viewers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Viewer

Viewer \View"er\, n.

  1. One who views or examines.

  2. (Law) A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.

  3. The superintendent of a coal mine. [Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
viewer

early 15c., "civic official responsible for surveying property," agent noun from view (v.). Meaning "watcher of television" first recorded 1935, in place of earlier suggestion looker-in (1927).

Wiktionary
viewer

n. 1 Someone that views some spectacle; an onlooker or spectator. 2 Someone who watches television. 3 Any optical device used to view photographic slides. 4 (context computing English) A program that displays the contents of a file of digital images; an image viewer or file viewer.

WordNet
viewer
  1. n. a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star" [syn: spectator, witness, watcher, looker]

  2. an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies

Wikipedia
ViEWER

ViEWER, the Virtual Environment Workbench for Education and Research, is a proprietary, freeware computer program for Microsoft Windows written by researchers at the University of Idaho for the study of visual perception and complex immersive three-dimensional environments.

It was created using C++ and OpenGL, and has been used by Dr. Brian Dyre, Dr. Steffen Werner, Dr. Ernesto Bustamante, Dr. Ben Barton, and their undergraduate and graduate researchers in visual perception, signal detection, and child-safety experiments.

Usage examples of "viewer".

Television requires the existence of studio technicians, narrators and others in the transmitting side - and the availability of a viewer in the receiving side.

The place was only moderately full before dinner, but a few card players heckled one another over poker hands, and several vid fans had gathered around a viewer to watch one of the vidramas the ship had stocked for the voyage.

Molly Notkin is standing with Rutherford Keck and Crosby Baum and a radically bad-postured man before the school-supplied Infernatron viewer.

Gathering their dignity, what was left of it, she and Tuvok shuffled across the carpet, tossing each other a little glance of silliness that they were walking so stiffly, and joined the Doctor and Kes at the small viewer.

Though completely walled on three sides by lockable storage compartments for less bulky cargo, the tiny room efficiently contained enough space for a desk and viewer table.

She might easily have seen him coming, for the door that she emerged from was strategically placed at a bend in the passage, so anyone looking through a wide-angle viewer from inside would command the stretch of hallway in front of the Maule apartment.

Marc Moise sat down in the chair before the main viewer, trying to reconcile the crusty voice that had spoken to him with the childhood memory of Uncle Sam Beasley.

Each rectangle provided a slice of pastoral life, which when viewed with those around it, combined to provide the viewer with a sense of how many Naa lived.

Luke looked up quickly to the space viewer, seeing a destroyer, and shortly behind it three Nebulon B Frigates.

There too, if a nickelodeon viewer knew me beforehand, he could have picked me out among the other actors, but not in a star role.

After giving the question due consideration, I briefed him on the Information Revolution, giving emphasis to the creation of the news channels, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and so forth, and the subsequent evolution of the television journalist from reporter to an interface through which the events of history were filtered, and the emergent punditocracy whose neatly packaged opinions were bleated out non-stop until they produced a litany of responses from the viewers that echoed these opinions with sheeplike unanimity.

April went immediately to the center of the bridge and eyed the viewer just as Sanawey tapped his controls and an endless wall of spacial disruption glittered before them.

Among several admissible modes is that of causing the amount to be assessed by viewers, or by a jury, generally without a hearing, but subject to the right of the owner to appeal for a judicial review thereof at which a trial on the evidence may be had.

The eyes of every viewer panicked by retrovirus homophobic hysteria would be glued to the set, ready to see if the Democrats would endorse the pollution of their bodily fluids by lurking sodomites and junkies drooling contamination from every orifice.

She thought about Leigh Mellon, her tearful blue eyes and heartfelt appeal to viewers.