Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that views, especially an onlooker or spectator.
- noun Any of various optical devices used to facilitate the viewing of photographic transparencies by illuminating or magnifying them.
- noun A person who watches television or movies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who views, surveys, or examines.
- noun Specifically— An official appointed to inspect or superintend something; an overseer; in coal-mining, the general manager, both above and below ground, of a coal-mine. This word, not at all in use in the United States, is almost obsolete in England, having become replaced by the terms mining-engineer and agent. The terms used in the United States are manager and superintendent.
- noun One of a body of jurors who are appointed by a court to view or inspect the property in controversy or the place where a crime has been committed. In Scotland two persons called
showers point out the subjects to be viewed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who views or examines.
- noun (Law) A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.
- noun engraving The superintendent of a coal mine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone that
views somespectacle ; anonlooker orspectator - noun Someone who
watches television - noun Any
optical device used to viewphotographic slides - noun computing A
program thatdisplays thecontents of afile ofdigital images ; an image viewer or file viewer
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies
- noun a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
Etymologies
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Examples
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This extraordinary ability to touch the heart of his viewer is as evident in his greeting cards, public announcements, illustrations of literary works, and text book covers - where but in Mexico does the Board of Education commission a world class painter to illustrate its textbooks. - as it is in his easel paintings and murals.
Rufino Tamayo 2007
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This extraordinary ability to touch the heart of his viewer is as evident in his greeting cards, public announcements, illustrations of literary works, and text book covers - where but in Mexico does the Board of Education commission a world class painter to illustrate its textbooks. - as it is in his easel paintings and murals.
Rufino Tamayo 2007
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As a result, his mural teems with so much detail that the viewer is at first overwhelmed.
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From a press release: For example, when the viewer is angry the colours are dark and appear to have been applied to the canvas with more violent brush strokes.
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As a result, his mural teems with so much detail that the viewer is at first overwhelmed.
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That's why there's such an emphasis on huge cocks; the viewer is attempting to put himself in the feet of one of the guys who's banging the woman, and in that mindset he's usually got a huge dick that nobody can resist.
In Defense of Porn, Part II lornemir 2004
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Scaring the shit out of the viewer is his bread and butter, but imprinting lasting trepidation is the clincher.
Lila Shapiro: Kiss the Bloody Rabbit: Inside New York's Most Unsettling Haunted House (PHOTOS) Lila Shapiro 2010
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Scaring the shit out of the viewer is his bread and butter, but imprinting lasting trepidation is the clincher.
Lila Shapiro: Kiss the Bloody Rabbit: Inside New York's Most Unsettling Haunted House (PHOTOS) Lila Shapiro 2010
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Scaring the shit out of the viewer is his bread and butter, but imprinting lasting trepidation is the clincher.
Lila Shapiro: Kiss the Bloody Rabbit: Inside New York's Most Unsettling Haunted House (PHOTOS) Lila Shapiro 2010
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Scaring the shit out of the viewer is his bread and butter, but imprinting lasting trepidation is the clincher.
Lila Shapiro: Kiss the Bloody Rabbit: Inside New York's Most Unsettling Haunted House (PHOTOS) Lila Shapiro 2010
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