See vs Leer - What's the difference?
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To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
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# To witness or observe by personal experience.
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To form a mental picture of.
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, title= # (label) To understand.
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, title= # To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
(label) To meet, to visit.
# To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
#* (Bible), 1 (w) xv. 35
# To date frequently.
(label) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
(label) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if'' or ''whether ).
(used in the imperative ) Used to emphasise a proposition.
A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
* Spenser
To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent.
To entice with a leer or leers.
* (Dryden)
A significant side glance; a glance expressive of some passion, as malignity, amorousness, etc.; a sly or lecherous look.
An arch or affected glance or cast of countenance.
(obsolete) The cheek.
(obsolete) The face.
(obsolete) One's appearance; countenance.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Complexion; hue; blee; colour.
(obsolete) Flesh; skin.
The flank or loin.
Empty; unoccupied; clear.
Destitute; lacking; wanting.
Faint from lack of food; hungry.
Thin; faint.
Having no load or burden; free; without a rider.
Lacking sense or seriousness; trifling; frivolous.
See is a related term of leer.
As nouns the difference between see and leer
is that see is while leer is .see
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path.
- Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Wings of Desire, passage=It is not just that we see birds as little versions of ourselves. It is also that, at the same time, they stand outside any moral process. They are utterly indifferent. This absolute oblivion on their part, this lack of sharing, is powerful.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
- And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death.
Synonyms
* (perceive with the eyes) behold, descry, espy, observe, view * (understand) follow, get, understandDerived terms
* aftersee * besee * foresee * forsee * insee * missee * outsee * oversee * see a man about a dog * see for * see things * see someone right * see stars * see the light of day * see through * see-through * see with one's own eyes * undersee * unseeSee also
* look * sight * watchEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see .
Derived terms
* Holy SeeSee also
* cathedra * cathedral * chair * throneStatistics
*External links
* (wikipedia "see")leer
English
Etymology 1
Exact development uncertain, but apparently from *. See below.Verb
(en verb)- To gild a face with smiles; and leer a man to ruin.
Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) ler, . More at (l), (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)- (Holinshed)
- a Rosalind of a better leer than you
Anagrams
* *Etymology 3
From (etyl) lere, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- a leer stomach
- (Gifford)
- a leer horse
- (Ben Jonson)
- leer words