Definition of "view"

(physical) Visual perception.

1. The act of seeing or looking at something.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view.

     1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […]

   • Objects near our view are apt to be thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote.

     1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […]

   • 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, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

     1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax

2. The range of vision.  quotations  examples

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   • The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.

     1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]

3. Something to look at, such as scenery.  quotations  examples

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   • 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.

     1799, Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope

   • "Well, there don't seem to be any what you might call views about here," he agreed. […] "I've been through the Willawee Ranges forty miles west of here, and I can guarantee the views there."

     1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 20

4. (Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user.  examples

5. (obsolete) Appearance; show; aspect.  quotations

   Quotations

   • [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.

     c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece

A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.  examples

An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.

1. A mental image.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • I have with exact view perused thee, Hector.

     c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene v]

2. A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty

     1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], book I, page 21

   • There hasn’t been much polling data on consumer views of gene-edited foods, because they are still so new.

     2019 May 30, Karen Weintraub, “Crispr gene-editing will change the way Americans eat – here's what's coming”, in The Guardian‎

3. A point of view.  examples

4. An intention or prospect.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • No man ever sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason for what he does

     a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706

   • With this view, they made a Guy Faux, or dummy figure of a boy, dressed in coat and cap; such as might in a poor light be mistaken for a living figure.

     1903, Henry Kelsall Aspinall, Birkenhead and Its Surroundings, page 116

(computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.  examples

(computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with  examples

A wake.  examples

(transitive) To look at.  quotations  examples

(transitive) To regard in a stated way.  examples