seeing
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editseeing
- 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
editAdjective
editseeing (not comparable)
Synonyms
editTranslations
edithaving vision; not blind
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Noun
editseeing (countable and uncountable, plural seeings)
- The act or fact of perceiving something with the eyes; 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.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editthe 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
editProbably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".
Conjunction
editseeing
- (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
- Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.
Translations
editinasmuch as; in view of the fact
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Anagrams
editFinnish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English seeing.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈsiːʔiŋ(ː)/, [ˈs̠iːʔiŋ(ː)]
- Rhymes: -iːʔiŋ
- Syllabification(key): see‧ing
- Hyphenation(key): see‧ing
Noun
editseeing
- (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) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||
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