seeing

seeing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -iːɪŋ

Etymology 1

see +‎ -ing

Verb

seeing

1. present participle of see
   • 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 who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.

Derived terms

• all-seeing
• far-seeing, farseeing
• seeing to
• seeing-eye dog

Adjective

seeing (not comparable)

1. Having vision; not blind.

Synonyms

• sighted

Translations

having vision; not blind

Arabic: بَصِير‎ (baṣīr), مُبْصِر‎ (mubṣir) Bulgarian: зрящ (zrjašt) Czech: vidomý, vidoucí Finnish: näkevä (fi) French: voyant (fr) m Galician: vidente German: sehend (de) Latin: videns (la) Latvian: redzošs (lv), redzīgs Russian: ви́дящий (ru) (vídjaščij), зря́чий (ru) (zrjáčij) Spanish: vidente (es)

Noun

seeing (countable and uncountable, plural seeings)

1. 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 […]

2. (astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.

Translations

the action of the verb to see; eyesight

Arabic: رُؤْيَة‎ f (ruʾya) Bulgarian: зрение (bg) n (zrenie) Finnish: näkeminen (fi) German: Sehen (de) n Irish: feiceáil f Russian: ви́дение (ru) n (vídenije), зре́ние (ru) n (zrénije) (eyesight) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: wiźenje n Telugu: చూచుట (te) (cūcuṭa)

the movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere

Finnish: seeing (fi)

Etymology 2

Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".

Conjunction

seeing

1. (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.

   Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.

Translations

inasmuch as; in view of the fact

Arabic: نَظَرًا لِـ‎ (naẓaran li-) Bulgarian: доколкото (bg) (dokolkoto) Finnish: koska (fi), sikäli kuin Hungarian: láttán (hu), minthogy (hu) Polish: z uwagi na to że

Anagrams

• Geisen, Giesen, genies, signee

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Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English seeing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːʔiŋ(ː)/, [ˈs̠iːʔiŋ(ː)]
• Syllabification^(key): see‧ing

Noun

seeing

1. (astronomy) seeing (the movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere)

Declension

Inflection of seeing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		seeing	seeingit
genitive		seeingin	seeingien
partitive		seeingiä	seeingejä
illative		seeingiin	seeingeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		seeing	seeingit
accusative	nom.	seeing	seeingit
	gen.	seeingin
genitive		seeingin	seeingien
partitive		seeingiä	seeingejä
inessive		seeingissä	seeingeissä
elative		seeingistä	seeingeistä
illative		seeingiin	seeingeihin
adessive		seeingillä	seeingeillä
ablative		seeingiltä	seeingeiltä
allative		seeingille	seeingeille
essive		seeinginä	seeingeinä
translative		seeingiksi	seeingeiksi
instructive		—	seeingein
abessive		seeingittä	seeingeittä
comitative		—	seeingeineen

Possessive forms of seeing (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	seeingini	seeingimme
2nd person	seeingisi	seeinginne
3rd person	seeinginsä