Spectacle vs View - What's the difference?
spectacle | view |
Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
An exciting exhibition, performance or event.
An embarrassing situation
(usually, in the plural) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
(figuratively) An aid to the intellectual sight.
* Chaucer
(obsolete) A spyglass; a looking-glass.
The brille of a snake.
(label) Visual perception.
# The act of seeing or looking at something.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
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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.
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As nouns the difference between spectacle and view
is that spectacle is something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant while view is (label) visual perception.As a verb view is
to look at.spectacle
Noun
(en noun)- In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
- He made a spectacle out of himself
- Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friends see.
Synonyms
* (optical instrument) glasses, eyeglasses, specsExternal links
* * ----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
(en verb)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}