seeing
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From see + -ingCategory:English terms suffixed with -ing#SEEING.
Verb
seeingCategory:English non-lemma forms#SEEINGCategory:English verb forms#SEEINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SEEINGCategory:Pages with entries#SEEINGCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SEEING
- present participle and gerund 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.Category:English terms with quotations#SEEING
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Adjective
seeing (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#SEEINGCategory:English adjectives#SEEINGCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#SEEINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SEEINGCategory:Pages with entries#SEEINGCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SEEING
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Noun
seeing (countable and uncountable, plural seeings)Category:English lemmas#SEEINGCategory:English nouns#SEEINGCategory:English uncountable nouns#SEEINGCategory:English countable nouns#SEEINGCategory:English countable nouns#SEEINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SEEINGCategory:Pages with entries#SEEINGCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SEEING
- The act or fact of perceiving something with the eyes; 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 […]Category:English terms with quotations#SEEING
- (astronomyCategory:en:Astronomy#SEEING) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Etymology 2
Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".
Conjunction
seeingCategory:English lemmas#SEEINGCategory:English conjunctions#SEEINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SEEINGCategory:Pages with entries#SEEINGCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SEEING
- (slangCategory:English slang#SEEING) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
- Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.Category:English terms with usage examples#SEEING
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Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from EnglishCategory:Finnish terms borrowed from English#SEEINGCategory:Finnish unadapted borrowings from English#SEEINGCategory:Finnish terms derived from English#SEEING seeing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsiːʔiŋ(ː)/, [ˈs̠iːʔiŋ(ː)]Category:Finnish 2-syllable words#SEEINGCategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#SEEING
- Rhymes: -iːʔiŋCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/iːʔiŋ#SEEINGCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/iːʔiŋ/2 syllables#SEEING
- Syllabification(key): see‧ing
- Hyphenation(key): see‧ing
Noun
seeingCategory:Finnish lemmas#SEEINGCategory:Finnish nouns#SEEINGCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#SEEINGCategory:Pages with entries#SEEINGCategory:Pages with 2 entries#SEEING
- (astronomyCategory:fi:Astronomy#SEEING) 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 | |
| abessive | seeingittä | seeingeittä | |
| instructive | — | seeingein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||