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Preview vs Previewer - What's the difference?

preview | previewer |

As nouns the difference between preview and previewer

is that preview is a foretaste of something while previewer is a person who has been invited to preview a film or TV program.

As a verb preview

is to show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.

preview

English

Noun

(wikipedia preview) (en noun)
  • A foretaste of something.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}
  • (colloquial) An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
  • Something seen in advance.

    • Synonyms

    * forelook

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.

    • previewer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who has been invited to preview a film or TV program.
  • One who, or that which, previews.
  • * 1988 , Institute for Scientific Information, The Scientist: Volume 2, Issues 1-12
    • For example, the Macintosh versions of TeX provide a screen previewer as a part of the basic package, whereas the screen previewer for the IBM PC is an extra.
  • * Jim Boyce, Microsoft® Outlook® 2010 Inside Out
    • To view a file for which there is no previewer installed, save the file to disk and open it with the appropriate application.