seeing
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
seeing
- present participle and gerund of see
- 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
seeing (not comparable)
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
having vision; not blind
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Noun edit
seeing (countable and uncountable, plural seeings)
- The action of the verb to see; eyesight.
- 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:
- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
- (astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
Translations edit
the action of the verb to see; eyesight
the movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere
Etymology 2 edit
Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".
Conjunction edit
seeing
- (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
- Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.
Translations edit
inasmuch as; in view of the fact
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Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English seeing.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
seeing
- (astronomy) seeing (the movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere)
Declension edit
Inflection of seeing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | seeing | seeingit | ||
genitive | seeingin | seeingien | ||
partitive | seeingiä | seeingejä | ||
illative | seeingiin | seeingeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | seeing | seeingit | ||
accusative | nom. | seeing | seeingit | |
gen. | seeingin | |||
genitive | seeingin | seeingien | ||
partitive | seeingiä | seeingejä | ||
inessive | seeingissä | seeingeissä | ||
elative | seeingistä | seeingeistä | ||
illative | seeingiin | seeingeihin | ||
adessive | seeingillä | seeingeillä | ||
ablative | seeingiltä | seeingeiltä | ||
allative | seeingille | seeingeille | ||
essive | seeinginä | seeingeinä | ||
translative | seeingiksi | seeingeiksi | ||
abessive | seeingittä | seeingeittä | ||
instructive | — | seeingein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |