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seeing | reading |

As a verb seeing

is .

As an adjective seeing

is having vision; not blind.

As a noun seeing

is the action of the verb to see ; eyesight.

As a conjunction seeing

is (slang) inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.

As a proper noun reading is

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seeing

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=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.}}
    Derived terms
    * all-seeing * seeing to * seeing-eye dog

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having vision; not blind.
    • Synonyms
    * sighted

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to see ; 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
  • (astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
    • Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.

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    reading

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia reading)
  • The process of interpreting written language.
  • The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
  • A value indicated by a measuring device.
    • a speedometer reading .
  • A meeting where written material is read aloud.
    • a poetry reading .
  • An interpretation.
    • a reading of the current situation .
  • One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.

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