Few vs View - What's the difference?
few | view |
(preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
(meteorology, of clouds) (US?) Obscuring one eighth to two eighths of the sky.
(meteorology, of rainfall with regard to a location) (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.
(label) Visual perception.
# The act of seeing or looking at something.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
#*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
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# The range of vision.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# Something to look at, such as scenery.
#* (1777-1844)
# (label) Appearance; show; aspect.
#* (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
(label) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
# A mental image.
#* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
# A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
#* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
# A point of view.
# An intention or prospect.
#* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with; a user interface.
A wake. (rfex)
To look at.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To show.
As a proper noun few
is (british) the pilots who fought in the battle of britain.As a noun view is
(label) visual perception.As a verb view is
to look at.few
English
Determiner
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- I was expecting lots of people at the party, but very few''''' (=''almost none'') ''turned up. Quite a '''few''' of them'' (=''many of them'') ''were pleasantly surprised. I don't know how many drinks I've had, but I've had a '''few . [This usage is likely ironic.]
- NOAA definition of the term "few clouds": An official sky cover classification for aviation weather observations, descriptive of a sky cover of 1/8 to 2/8. This is applied only when obscuring phenomenon aloft are present--that is, not when obscuring phenomenon are surface-based, such as fog.
Usage notes
* (term) is used with plural nouns only; its synonymous counterpart (little) is used with nouns. * Although indefinite in nature, a few is usually more than two (two often being referred to as "a couple of"), and less than "several". If the sample population is say between 5 and 20, a few would mean three or four, but no more than this. However, if the population sample size were in the millions, "a few" could refer to several hundred items. In other words, few'' in this context means ''a very very small percentage but way over the 3 or 4 usually ascribed to it its use with much much smaller numbers. : (term) is grammatically affirmative but semantically negative, and it can license negative polarity items. For example, lift a finger usually cannot be used in affirmative sentences, but can be used in sentences with (term). *: He didn't lift a finger to help us. *: *He lifted a finger to help us. (ungrammatical) *: Few people lifted a finger to help us. *: *A few people lifted a finger to help us. (ungrammatical) *: *Fewer people lifted a finger to help us. (ungrammatical)Synonyms
* little (see usage)Antonyms
* manyDerived terms
* a few * quite a fewAntonyms
* manyReferences
* Meteorology (both senses) *:NOAA Glossary: f
view
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view .
- Objects near our view are thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote.
- The walls of Pluto's palace are in view .
- 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view .
- [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.
- I have with exact view perused thee, Hector.
- to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty
- No man sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason.
Antonyms
* (part of computer program) model, controllerDerived terms
* angle of view * bankruptcy view * bird's-eye view * by-view * clear view screen * counterview * exploded view * field of view * in full view * in view of * out of view * page view * pay-per-view * point of view * rear-view * viewable * view angle * view camera * viewfinder/view finder * viewgraph * viewless * viewpoint * viewy * worldview/world-view/world view * worm's-eye view/worm's eye viewVerb
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