Word Finder - sees

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(stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.

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To form a mental picture of.

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(social) To meet, to visit.

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To be the setting or time of.

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1999 saw the release of many great films.

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(by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.

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I'll see you hang for this!  I saw that they didn't make any more trouble.

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To wait upon; attend, escort.

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I saw the old lady safely across the road.

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To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.

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I'll see your twenty dollars and raise you ten.

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To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).

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I'll come over later and see if I can fix your computer.

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(used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.

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For a complete proof of the Poincaré conjecture, see Appendix C.

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To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.

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Can I see that lighter for a second? Mine just quit working.

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To include as one of something's experiences.

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The equipment has not seen usage outside of our projects.

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A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.

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The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric

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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

At least wait until the doctor sees her.

In a second bedroom, he sees himself, cowering beneath the cover, and biting back tears.

I don't know what he sees in her.

If you had to watch lord knows what mayhem he sees you'd have shrieking nightmares too!

She'll melt when she sees you.

I was like one who never casts a look behind, who hesitates before some Rubicon to be crossed, but having touched the farther bank sees no more the shore he has just left."

He must stand there until he sees some one else whisper.

His job is to push a button if he sees anything suspicious.

In a prefatory note which Miss Sullivan wrote for St. Nicholas, she says that people frequently said to her, "Helen sees more with her fingers than we do with our eyes."

True, her view of life is highly coloured and full of poetic exaggeration; the universe, as she sees it, is no doubt a little better than it really is.

God is alone--but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

We record every detail he sees eliminating his need to remember license plate and such.

He sees well enough, said Prince Vasili rapidly, in a deep voice and with a slight cough--the voice and cough with which he was wont to dispose of all difficulties.

His style is clear and vivid; his method of describing what he sees extraordinarily plastic; above all, he has the art of presenting objects to us from their most interesting and attractive side.

But, while he continues demented, he cannot judge of the visions which he sees or the words which he utters....

The kingdom is divided into 264 sees and ten abbeys, or prelatures ni4lius dioceseos.

He sees people do things, and he tries to do them.

I have no fear this woman will attempt to escape as she sees my knife and knows full well her daughter's life is in my hands.

Howie thinks he hears movement outside at one point but sees nothing.

No one can predict Death.  No one even sees her, unless they die-dead."  "It must be a lonely existence for her," she said, puzzled as to why he'd speak more highly of Darkyn than he had of Death.

The Italian sees (exclusive of Rome and of the suburbicarian sees) have a total annual revenue of 206,000 equal to an average of 800 per see.

So Haggai sees in Zerubbabel the representative of the 5 There is an obvious effort to preserve the continuity of tradition (a) in Ezra ii.

The overhanging leaf sees here its prototype.

It excited also the animosity of the nobles jealous of their privileges, and of the monasteries, which were called upon to furnish the revenues for the new sees.

He was successively councillor of the parlement of Grenoble, secretary to the king, almoner to Marie de' Medici, abbot of Aulnay and finally, in 1606, bishop of Sees.

Why does Prince Andrew, who sees this, say nothing to me about his sister?

Of course, not everyone sees changes or improvement.

If Howie drops into ten or twenty minutes of anyone's life, chance are all he sees is them picking their nose, reading a book or working.

If anyone sees us together like this, I'm done.

Tell you what, you show me where this guy's gear is and maybe I'll leave a note for the fella asking him to ask Corbin when he sees him.

God sees all history neither as future nor as present but as actual.

The occupants of certain sees by a kind of prescription became legates without special appointment, legati nati, as in the case of Canterbury.

He sees no sign of an attack upon him or his gospel.

He deprived Taenberht, archbishop of Canterbury, of several of his suffragan sees, and assigned them to Lichfield, which, with the leave of the pope, he constituted as a separate archbishopric under Hygeberht.

It meets in regular session quadrennially, in special sessions in the middle of the interval to pass the appropriation and revenue bills, and in extraordinary session whenever the governor sees fit to call it.

One view of the origin of the latter (largely based upon observations upon the development of Polygordius) sees in the blood system a persistent blastocoel.

In the East, in the 5th century, the archdeacons were already charged with the proof of the qualifications of candidates for ordination; they attended the bishops at ecclesiastical synods, and sometimes acted as their representatives; they shared in the administration of sees during a vacancy.

The higher criticism sees, in these successive enactments of the various codes included in the Pentateuch (q.v.), a development in the character of the festival.

In 1503 he was the first Margaret professor at Cambridge; and the following year was raised to the see of Rochester, to which he remained faithful, although the richer sees of Ely and Lincoln were offered to him.

The writer already sees the Messianic kingdom established, under the sway of which the Gentiles will in due course be saved, Beliar overthrown, sin disappear from the earth, and the righteous dead rise to share fr1 the blessedness of the living.

He condemned and deposed Acacius, a proceeding which the latter regarded with contempt, but which involved a breach between the two sees that lasted after Acacius's death (489), through the long and troubled reign of Anastasius, and was only healed by Justin I.

It is the Lord's Passover; when He sees the blood He will pass over you and there will be no plague upon you.

The last bishop appointed to Greenland died in 1540, but long before that date those appointed had never reached their sees; the last bishop who resided in Greenland died there in 1377.

The patient consulting the god sleeps in the Abaton, sees certain visions, and, as a result, comes forth cured the next morning.

He sees two independent sections, 2-4+12-13, and 5-11+14-17.

The same thing holds for the intelligence service in which Stalin sees the quintessence of the state.

Everybody sees that things are going so badly that they cannot be allowed to go on so and that it is the duty of all decent men to counteract it as far as they can.

He should try and remember every detail he sees.

She has to believe you when she sees this, Jackson.

In many sees there were no vidames, their function being exercised by viscounts or chatelains.