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单词 see
释义

see

See also: See, SEE, sée, and seë

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sē, IPA(key): /ˈsiː/
  • Audio (to see) (RP)(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsi/
  • Audio (GA)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophones: C, cee, sea, Seay

Etymology 1

From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”).

Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjen (“to see”), Dutch zien (“to see”), Low German sehn, German sehen (“to see”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål se (“to see”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjå (“to see”), and more distantly with Latin sīgnum (“sign, token”), Albanian shih (“look at, see”) imperative of shoh (“to see”).

Verb

see (third-person singular simple present sees, present participle seeing, simple past saw or (dialectal) seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed, past participle seen or (dialectal) seent or (dialectal) seed or (dialectal) saw)

  1. (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt's Patients, page 18:
      Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path. […] It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
    • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
      But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw […] that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
    • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
      I want to see this house!
      Audio (US)(file)
    1. To witness or observe by personal experience.
      Hyponyms: experience, suffer
      Now I've seen it all!
      I have been blind since birth and I love to read Braille. When the books arrive in from the library, I can’t wait to see what stories they have sent me.
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, John 8:51, column 1:
        Uerely, verely I ſay vnto you, If a man keepe my ſaying, hee ſhall neuer ſee death.
      • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, OCLC 1057107260, page 434:
        […] And remember this, 'scape-gallows,' said Ralph, menacing him with his hand, 'that if we meet again, and you so much as notice me by one begging gesture, you shall see the inside of a jail once more […]
    2. To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
      I saw the latest Tarantino flick last week.
  2. To form a mental picture of.
    • 2013 August 23, Mark Cocker, “Wings of Desire”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, page 28:
      It is not just that we see birds as little versions of ourselves. It is also that, at the same time, they stand outside any moral process. They are utterly indifferent. This absolute oblivion on their part, this lack of sharing, is powerful.
    • 2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg; Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film‎, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., →ISBN, page 173:
      The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).
    1. (figuratively) To understand.
      Do you see what I mean?
      • 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 […] . Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming […] . A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.
    2. To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
      They're blind to the damage they do, but someday they'll see.
    3. (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
      The oracle saw the destruction of the city.
      • 1967, Alan Gordon & Garry Bonner (lyrics and music), “Happy Together”, performed by The Turtles:
        I can't see me lovin' nobody but you / For all my life / When you're with me, baby the skies'll be blue / For all my life
    4. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
      You see, Johnny, your Dad isn't your real father.
      You're not welcome here any more, see?
  3. (social) To meet, to visit.
    1. To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
      to go to see a friend
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Samuel 15:35, column 2:
        And Samuel came no more to ſee Saul vntill the day of his death: neuertheleſſe, Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king ouer Iſrael.
    2. To date frequently.
      I've been seeing her for two months.
      • 2022 September 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Sep 9, 2022:
        "You're... remarrying? I didn't even know you were seeing someone. And she's going to live here?"
    3. To visit for a medical appointment.
      You should see a doctor about that rash on your arm.
      I've been seeing a therapist for three years now.
  4. (transitive; ergative) To be the setting or time of.
    The 20th century saw humanity's first space exploration.
    1999 saw the release of many great films.
    • 1995 June 3, David Sprague, “Buffalo Tom Reaches Crossroads: EastWest Trio At Make-Or-Break Point”, in Billboard, volume 107, number 22, page 9:
      It seems as if every passing year sees the mainstream embrace a longtime cult-favorite alternative rock band.
  5. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
    I'll see you hang for this!  I saw that they didn't make any more trouble.
  6. (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
    I saw the old lady safely across the road.
    You can see yourself out.
  7. (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
    I'll see your twenty dollars and raise you ten.
  8. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
    I'll come over later and see if I can fix your computer.
    You think I can't beat you in a race, eh? We'll see.
  9. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
    Step 4: In the system, check out the laptop to the student (see: "Logging Resources" in the Tutor Manual).
    For a complete proof of the Poincaré conjecture, see Appendix C.
  10. To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
    Can I see that lighter for a second? Mine just quit working.
  11. To include as one of something's experiences.
    The equipment has not seen usage outside of our projects.
    I saw military service in Vietnam.
Conjugation
Conjugation of see
infinitive(to) see
present tensepast tense
1st-person singular see saw
2nd-person singular see, seest† saw, sawest†
3rd-person singular sees, seeth† saw
plural see
subjunctive see saw
imperative see —
participles seeing seen

†Archaic or obsolete.

Synonyms
  • (perceive with the eyes): behold, descry, espy, observe, view
  • (understand): follow, get, understand
  • (date frequently): go out; see also Thesaurus:date
Derived terms
  • aftersee
  • besee
  • foresee, forsee
  • have seen one's day
  • insee
  • missee
  • outsee
  • oversee
  • see a man about a dog
  • see coming
  • see for
  • see Naples and die
  • see one's way clear to
  • see past the end of one's nose
  • see someone right
  • see stars
  • see the light of day
  • see things
  • see-through, see through
  • see to
  • see you in the funny papers
  • undersee
  • unsee
Translations

Interjection

see

  1. Introducing an explanation
    See, in order to win the full prize we would have to come up with a scheme to land a rover on the Moon.
    Synonyms: look, well, so
Translations

See also

  • look
  • sight
  • watch

Etymology 2

From Middle English se, see, from Old French sie (“seat, throne; town, capital; episcopal see”), from Latin sedes (“seat”), referring to the bishop's throne or chair (compare seat of power) in the cathedral; related to the Latin verb sedere (“to sit”).

Noun

see (plural sees)

  1. a diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
  2. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
  3. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 2, page 478:
      Ioue laught on Venus from his ſouerayne ſee
Derived terms
  • Holy See
terms related to see (noun)
  • seat
  • sedentary
  • sit
Translations

See also

  • cathedra
  • cathedral
  • chair
  • throne

Further reading

  • see on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • -ese, ESE, Ese, ees, ese

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

  • sé (obsolete)

Etymology

From Dutch zee, from Middle Dutch sêe, from Old Dutch sēo, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪə/, /zɪə/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

see (plural seë)

  1. sea
    Laasweek het ons see toe gegaan.
    Last week we went to the sea.
    Die trekvoëls vlieg oor die berge, oor die see, Lapland toe.
    The migratory birds are flying over the mountains, over the sea, to Sápmi.

Derived terms

  • seekoei
  • seesout
  • seevis
  • seevoël
  • seewater

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *se, ultimately from Proto-Uralic *śe. cognate to Finnish se, Votic se, Erzya се (se, “this, that”), Khanty си (si, “that over yonder; now, then”), and Nganasan [script needed] (sete, “he, she”).

Pronoun

see (genitive selle, partitive seda)

  1. this
  2. it
  3. (colloquial, somewhat rude) he, she (usually only used when said person is not present)

Declension

Declension of see (type 41)
singularplural
nominativeseeneed
genitivesellenende
partitivesedaneid
illativesellesse / sessenendesse / neisse
inessiveselles / sesnendes / neis
elativesellest / sestnendest / neist
allativesellelenendele / neile
adessivesellel / selnendel / neil
ablativesellelt / seltnendelt / neilt
translativeselleks / seksnendeks / neiks
terminativeselleninendeni
essivesellenanendena
abessiveselletanendeta
comitativeselleganendega

Derived terms

  • seal
  • sealt
  • sinna

See also

Estonian personal pronouns
singularplural
longshortlongshort
1st personminamameieme
2nd personfamiliarsinasateiete
politeteiete
3rd personanimatetematanemadnad
inanimateseeneed

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseː/, [ˈs̠e̞ː]
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Syllabification(key): see

Etymology 1

Compare Swedish ce, English cee, both ultimately from Latin cē with the c sound changed from a /k/ to a /s/ as is a common change in languages using the Latin alphabet.

Alternative forms

  • cee

Noun

see

  1. cee (The name of the Latin-script letter C.)
    • 1990, Hämäläinen, Eila, Aletaan I: Suomen kielen oppikirja vasta-alkajille (Let's begin I: Finnish textbook for the beginners), Helsinki: Helsingin Yliopisto (University of Helsinki), →ISBN, page 23:
      Luemme kirjaimet näin: aa bee see dee ee äf gee hoo ii jii koo äl äm än oo pee kuu är äs tee uu vee kaksois-vee äks yy tset ruotsalainen oo ää öö
      We read the letters as follows: aa bee see …
Usage notes
  • Speakers often use the corresponding forms of c-kirjain ("letter C, letter c") instead of inflecting this word, especially in plural. The plural forms may get confused with sei (“saithe”).
Declension
Inflection of see (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominativeseeseet
genitiveseenseiden
seitten
partitiveseetäseitä
illativeseehenseihin
singularplural
nominativeseeseet
accusativenom.seeseet
gen.seen
genitiveseenseiden
seitten
partitiveseetäseitä
inessiveseessäseissä
elativeseestäseistä
illativeseehenseihin
adessiveseelläseillä
ablativeseeltäseiltä
allativeseelleseille
essiveseenäseinä
translativeseeksiseiksi
instructive—sein
abessiveseettäseittä
comitative—seineen
Possessive forms of see (type maa)
possessorsingularplural
1st personseeniseemme
2nd personseesiseenne
3rd personseensä
Synonyms
  • c-kirjain

Etymology 2

Finnish numbers (edit)
70[a], [b]
 ←  678  → 
    Cardinal: seitsemän
    Colloquial counting form: see
    Ordinal: seitsemäs
    Colloquial ordinal: seikki, seiska
    Ordinal abbreviation: 7.
    Adverbial: seitsemästi
    Multiplier: seitsenkertainen
    Fractional: seitsemäsosa, seitsemännes
Finnish Wikipedia article on 7

< seitsemän

Numeral

see

  1. (colloquial, counting) seven

See also

  • seitsemän (“seven”)

Etymology 3

From Proto-Finnic *se. Compare Estonian see.

Pronoun

see

  1. (dialectal, rare, Southwest) Synonym of se.

Anagrams

  • ees

Friulian

Alternative forms

  • siee

Etymology

From the verb seâ. Compare Italian sega, Venetian siega, French scie.

Noun

see f (plural seis)

  1. saw

Ingrian

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈseː/, [ˈs̠eː]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈseː/, [ˈʃe̝ː]
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Hyphenation: see

Pronoun

see

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of se
    • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, N. I. Molotsova, transl., Loonnontiito (ensimäin osa): oppikirja alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7:
      See näyttää, jot pintamaas ono mokomat osat, kummat pallaat.
      This shows that there are such parts in the topsoil that burn.

Determiner

see

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of se

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 514

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch sēo, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.

Noun

sêe f or m

  1. sea

Inflection

Weak feminine
SingularPlural
Nominativesêesêwen
Accusativesêesêwen
Genitivesêwensêwen
Dativesêe, sêwensêwen

Descendants

  • Dutch: zee f
    • Afrikaans: see
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: sei
    • Javindo: see
    • Negerhollands: see
    • → Saramaccan: zé
    • → Sranan Tongo: se
  • Limburgish: zieë f
  • West Flemish: zji m or f, zêe

Further reading

  • “see”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “see (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English sǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.

Alternative forms

  • ce, sæ, se, sea, sei, ze

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛː/, /seː/
  • Rhymes: -ɛː

Noun

see (plural sees)

  1. sea, ocean
  2. A body of water, a lake
  • Rede See
  • seeman
Descendants
  • English: sea
  • Scots: se, see, sey, seye, sie
  • Yola: zea, zee
References
  • “sē, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-09.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French sei, from Latin sedes.

Alternative forms

  • ce, cee, se

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seː/
  • Rhymes: -eː

Noun

see (plural sees)

  1. seat, chair
  2. dwelling, residence
  3. A royal or episcopal chair
  4. A royal or episcopal polity or realm
  5. A royal or episcopal residence
  6. (Christianity) The Kingdom of Heaven.
Descendants
  • English: see
References
  • “sē, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-09.

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sē, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi. Cognates include Dutch zee.

Noun

see m (plural seen)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) lake

Scots

Alternative forms

  • sie, sey, sei

Etymology

From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon, from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan. Cognate with English see.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsi][1]
  • (Coast Scots) IPA(key): [ˈsəi̯]

Verb

see (third-person singular simple present sees, present participle seein, simple past saw, seed, past participle seen)

  1. to see

References

  1. “see, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Tetum

Verb

see

  1. to turn, to present

Votic

Alternative forms

  • se

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *se, from Proto-Uralic *śe.

Pronunciation

  • (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈseː/, [ˈseː]
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Hyphenation: see

Pronoun

see

  1. (demonstrative) that
  2. (demonstrative) ít

Inflection

Inflection of see
singularplural
nominativeseeneed
nee
genitiveseneneije
nedʹdʹe
accusativeseneneije
nedʹdʹe
partitivesitäneite
illativesiheneise
inessivesenezneiz
elativesenesseneisse
allativesele
selle		neile
neille
adessiveselle
sell		neille
neill
ablativeselteneilte
translativesenessineissi
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sē, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seː/

Noun

see c (plural seeën, diminutive seeke)

  1. sea

Derived terms

  • seehûn
  • seeko
  • seerôver

Further reading

  • “see”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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