adj
Meaning 1
Having vision; not blind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
seeing
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈsiː.ɪŋ/
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rhymes with -iːɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: S IY1 IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
conj
Meaning 2
Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Examples
- Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The act or fact of perceiving something with the eyes; eyesight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
present participle and gerund of see
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
having vision, not blind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
normal use of the faculty of vision
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: eyesight, sightedness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality
noun
Meaning 8
perception by means of the eyes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: visual perception, beholding
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: perception
Narrower terms: contrast, face recognition, object recognition, visual space, fusion, optical fusion
History
Etymology
From see + -ing.
Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بَصِير (baṣīr) — having vision; not blind
- Arabic: مُبْصِر (mubṣir) — having vision; not blind
- Bulgarian: зрящ (zrjašt) — having vision; not blind
- Chinese Mandarin: 明眼 (míngyǎn) — having vision; not blind
- Czech: vidomý — having vision; not blind
- Czech: vidoucí — having vision; not blind
- Danish: seende — having vision; not blind
- Finnish: näkevä — having vision; not blind
- French: voyant — having vision; not blind
- Galician: vidente — having vision; not blind
- German: sehend — having vision; not blind
- Latin: videns — having vision; not blind
- Latvian: redzošs — having vision; not blind
- Latvian: redzīgs — having vision; not blind
- Russian: ви́дящий (vídjaščij) — having vision; not blind
- Russian: зря́чий (zrjáčij) — having vision; not blind
- Spanish: vidente — having vision; not blind
- Arabic: نَظَرًا لِـ (naẓaran li-) — inasmuch as; in view of the fact
- Bulgarian: доколкото (dokolkoto) — inasmuch as; in view of the fact
- Finnish: koska — inasmuch as; in view of the fact
- Finnish: sikäli kuin — inasmuch as; in view of the fact
- Hungarian: láttán — inasmuch as; in view of the fact
- Hungarian: minthogy — inasmuch as; in view of the fact
- Polish: z uwagi na to że — inasmuch as; in view of the fact
- Arabic: رُؤْيَة (ruʔya) — the action of the verb to see; eyesight
- Bulgarian: зрение (zrenie) — the action of the verb to see; eyesight
- Finnish: näkeminen — the action of the verb to see; eyesight
- German: Sehen — the action of the verb to see; eyesight
- Irish: feiceáil — the action of the verb to see; eyesight
- Russian: ви́дение (vídenije) — the action of the verb to see; eyesight
- Russian: зре́ние (zrénije) — the action of the verb to see; eyesight
- Lower Sorbian: wiźenje — the action of the verb to see; eyesight
- Telugu: చూచుట (cūcuṭa) — the action of the verb to see; eyesight
- Finnish: seeing — the movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere
Real reading context