preview

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ view; compare Old French preveü, past participle of preveoir (“to foresee”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːvjuː/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːvʉu/
  • (Dublin) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹiːvjuː/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

preview (plural previews)

1. An experience of something in advance.

   Synonym: foretaste

   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:

     It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].

2. (colloquial) An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
3. A short collection of clips edited together to advertise a film, television show, etc.; a trailer.
4. Something seen in advance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. (computing) A facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.

Synonyms

• forelook
• foreview

Derived terms

• preview-quality
• sneak preview

Translations

foretaste of something

• Dutch: voorsmaak (nl) m, voorsmaakje (nl) n, voorproef (nl) f, voorproefje (nl) n
• Finnish: esimaku
• French: aperçu (fr) m
• German: Vorschau (de) f, Vorblick m
• Greek: προεπισκόπηση (el) f (proepiskópisi)
• Hindi: झलक (hi) f (jhalak), प्रस्तुतीकरण (hi) m (prastutīkraṇ)
• Hungarian: betekintés (hu), betekintő, ízelítő (hu)
• Italian: assaggio (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پێشبینی (pêşbînî)

• Polish: przedsmak m
• Portuguese: prévia f
• Russian: предвкуше́ние (ru) n (predvkušénije)
• Swedish: förhandsvisning (sv), försmak (sv) c, glimt (sv) c

advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.

• Bulgarian: предвари́телен пре́глед m (predvarítelen prégled)
• Dutch: voorproefje (nl) n, avant-première (nl) f, voorvertoning (nl) f
• German: Vorschau (de) f, Voraufführung (de) f, Preview (de) f or m or n
• Greek: πρώτη προβολή f (próti provolí)
• Hindi: झलक (hi) f (jhalak), प्रस्तुतीकरण (hi) m (prastutīkraṇ)
• Hungarian: előzetes (hu), előbemutató
• Icelandic: stikla f
• Italian: anteprima (it) f, visione in anteprima f
• Japanese: 試写会 (ja) (ししゃかい, shishakai)
• Kannada: ಮುನ್ನೋಟ (kn) (munnōṭa)
• Malay: pratonton, previu, treler (ms)
• Polish: prapremiera (pl) f
• Portuguese: antestreia (pt) f
• Russian: предвари́тельный просмо́тр m (predvarítelʹnyj prosmótr), предосмо́тр m (predosmótr)
• Spanish: preestreno m
• Swedish: förhandsvisning (sv) c

something seen in advance

• Dutch: voorschouw f
• Korean: 미리 보기 (miri bogi)
• Northwestern Ojibwa: waabam-jibwaa
• Polish: podgląd (pl) m
• Russian: предосмо́тр m (predosmótr)
• Serbo-Croatian: pregled (sh) m

computing facility

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 預覽 / 预览 (zh) (yùlǎn)

• Finnish: esikatselu (fi)
• Galician: previsualización f
• Hindi: पूर्वावलोकन (pūrvāvlokan)
• Hungarian: előnézet (hu), (before printing) nyomtatási kép
• Italian: previsualizzazione f
• Maori: arokitenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forhåndsvisning (no) m or f

• Portuguese: pré-visualização f
• Russian: предвари́тельный просмо́тр m (predvarítelʹnyj prosmótr), предосмо́тр m (predosmótr)
• Spanish: previsualización f, vista previa / preliminar f
• Tigrinya: ቅድመ ትርኢት (ḳədmä tərʾit)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} antaŭmontro
• French: ^{(please verify)} avant-première (fr) f, ^{(please verify)} aperçu (fr) m

Verb

preview (third-person singular simple present previews, present participle previewing, simple past and past participle previewed)

1. (transitive) To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.
   • 1991 August 24, Lewis Gannett, “Gore Stories”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 8:

     Vidal's talk was caled "The Screening Of History," and it was a free-ranging meditation on the United States, the movies, on Vidal's personal history and numerous interconnections. (It also previewed a forthcoming book by the same name.)

2. (computing, transitive) To show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.

Translations

to show something in advance

• Catalan: visionar (ca) (watch)
• French: diffuser (fr)
• Indonesian: pratayang (id)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 미리 보다 (miri boda)
• Maori: arokite, tiro takamua
• Spanish: premostrar (es), preestrenar
• Swedish: förhandsvisa (sv)

to watch something in advance

• Spanish: visionar (es)

computing: to see something in advance

• Finnish: esikatsella (fi)
• French: prévoir (fr), prévisualiser (fr)
• Galician: previsualizar
• Italian: previsualizzare
• Maori: tiro takamua
• Portuguese: pré-visualizar
• Spanish: previsualizar
• Swedish: förhandsgranska (sv)