Some articles on see:
... SEE was an Ultraviolet Astronomy mission launched from LC-36 at the White Sands Missile Range, using a Black Brant IX rocket ...
... The lyrics to this carol are as follows See, amid the winter's snow, Born for us on Earth below, See, the tender Lamb appears, Promised from eternal years ...
More definitions of "see":
- (verb): Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally.
Example: "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"
Synonyms: understand, realize, realise
- (verb): Go to see for professional or business reasons.
Example: "You should see a lawyer"; "We had to see a psychiatrist"
- (verb): Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.
Example: "I see that you have been promoted"
Synonyms: learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover
- (verb): Deem to be.
Example: "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"
Synonyms: consider, reckon, view, regard
- (verb): Go or live through.
Synonyms: experience, undergo, go through
- (adv): Compare (used in texts to point the reader to another location in the text).
Synonyms: cf., cf, confer, see also
- (verb): Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort.
Example: "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"
Synonyms: determine, check, find out, ascertain, watch, learn
- (verb): Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.
Example: "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy"
Synonyms: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, figure, picture, image
- (verb): Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something.
Example: "See that the curtains are closed"
Synonyms: check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assure
- (verb): Match or meet.
Example: "I saw the bet of one of my fellow players"
- (noun): The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located.
- (verb): Accompany or escort.
Example: "I'll see you to the door"
Synonyms: escort
- (verb): Visit a place, as for entertainment.
Example: "We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning"
Synonyms: visit
- (verb): Receive as a specified guest.
Example: "The doctor will see you now"; "The minister doesn't see anybody before noon"
- (verb): Deliberate or decide.
Example: "See whether you can come tomorrow"; "let's see--which movie should we see tonight?"
- (verb): Make sense of; assign a meaning to.
Example: "What message do you see in this letter?"
Synonyms: interpret, construe
- (verb): Go to see for a social visit.
Example: "I went to see my friend Mary the other day"
- (verb): Perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight.
Example: "You have to be a good observer to see all the details"; "Can you see the bird in that tree?"; "He is blind--he cannot see"
- (verb): Observe as if with an eye.
Example: "The camera saw the burglary and recorded it"
- (verb): Take charge of or deal with.
Example: "Could you see about lunch?"
Synonyms: attend, take care, look
- (verb): Come together.
Example: "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"
Synonyms: meet, ran into, encounter, run across, come across
- (verb): Observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect.
Example: "I must see your passport before you can enter the country"
Synonyms: examine
Famous quotes containing the word see:
“Then turning to the disciples, Jesus said to them privately, Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 10:23,24.
“For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)
“See, see where Christs blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soulhalf a drop! ah, my Christ!
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!
Yet will I call on him!O, spare me, Lucifer!
Where is it now? T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (15641593)