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Definition of 'seeing'English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)
*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-06-28|author=(Joris Luyendijk)
|volume=189|issue=3|page=21|magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
|title= Our banks are out of control
|passage=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
* all-seeing
* seeing to
* seeing-eye dog
Adjective
(-)
Having vision; not blind.
Synonyms
* sighted
Noun
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.
Etymology 2
Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".
Conjunction
( en-con)
(slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
- Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.
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Similar to 'seeing'saying, swing, swung, swang, sewing, skiing, sheng, showing, sawing, swaying, sowing, suing, schwing, skewing, shewing, shoeing, shying, shooing, scowing, skying, skinmag, snigg, shieing, sying
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