(n.) A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
(n.) Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
(v. t.) To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.
(v. t.) To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.
(v. t.) To follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentivelly; to look after.
(v. t.) To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend.
(v. t.) To fall in with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service.
(v. t.) To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
(v. i.) To have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.
(v. i.) Figuratively: To have intellectual apprehension; to perceive; to know; to understand; to discern; -- often followed by a preposition, as through, or into.
(v. i.) To be attentive; to take care; to give heed; -- generally with to; as, to see to the house.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can't wait to see what Christie and her patriarchy-smashing pals do next.
(2) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(3) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(4) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(5) My boyfriend and I have been seeing each other for two years.
(6) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(7) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(8) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
(9) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
(10) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
(11) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
(12) If Deckard cannot see himself in the other, Roy can.
(13) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(14) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(15) The association constants K'A, KN, and K'N in the scheme (see article), were determined for the magnesium salts of ADP, adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate AMP-P(NH)P, and PPi.
(16) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
(17) Stimuli presented to this island could be detected and discriminated, although the subject reported he did not see them.
(18) However, as all subjects had normal hearing and maximum speech discrimination scores pre-smoking, it can only be concluded that smoking marihuana did not worsen the hearing--the experiments were not designed to see whether it would improve hearing.
(19) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(20) We conclude by looking at several specific models and seeing how the results relate to previous work.
Smee
Definition:
(n.) The pintail duck.
(n.) The widgeon.
(n.) The poachard.
(n.) The smew.
Example Sentences:
(1) The director general of the CML, Paul Smee, said: "January is always a subdued month in the mortgage market but the underlying trend and strong year-on-year growth across all borrower groups indicates a strong start to 2014 continuing the sort of lending levels seen throughout 2013.
(2) The director general of the CML, Paul Smee, said: "As the government's mortgage rescue scheme in the English regions closes to applications at the end of March, we will be sorry to see it go.
(3) "With May lending figures, we get our first glimpse at the effect the mortgage market review (MMR) has had on lending trends and, at least so far, the impact appears subtle, rather than dramatic," said Paul Smee, director general of the CML.
(4) Paul Smee, director general of the CML, said: "For the second month running since new FCA rules took effect, lending characteristics remain similar to the market beforehand.
(5) CML’s director general, Paul Smee, said: “Brexit, and its likely effect on the market, is a question to which the answer will not immediately be forthcoming.
(6) The CML's director general, Paul Smee, said: "If lending follows the same pattern as after previous stamp duty concessions, we will likely see a drop in activity in the next few months.
(7) The Council of Mortgage Lenders' director general, Paul Smee, said it was "anticipated that lending within the scheme will attract relief on the regulatory capital that would otherwise be required on high loan-to-value lending, because of the significant mitigation of the lending risk."
(8) Young people debate the EU and Brexit | Anna Smee Read more Identity matters, especially for unrepresented people like us.
(9) Following Odling-Smee's (1975) procedure, a Pavlovian conditioning paradigm was followed in which conditioned stimuli (CSs: tone, light) predicted an unconditioned stimulus (US:footshock) always, never, or half the time.
(10) Paul Smee, the CML's director general, said: "All types of lending show positive year-on-year growth but the rate of increase is not as frenetic as at the end of 2013.
(11) The CML's director general, Paul Smee, said: "More positive figures in October, after a slow September, suggest the underlying trend in house purchase lending of modest year-on-year growth will continue.
(12) Director general Paul Smee called this "encouraging news", and said first-time buyers were not being displaced by buy-to-let landlords.
(13) Studies by K. Ramabadran, J. J. C. Jacob, Greese et al., of Leysen and Smee and Overstreet, which take into the account the secretion of endogeneous "ligands" enkephalins and endorphins, offer the possibility of a better approach for understanding the role of neuroleptics in the control of pain.
(14) Paul Smee, director general of the CML, said: “Buy-to-let continues its growth this period but, at 18% of new lending in September, remains the fourth largest lending type behind first-time buyers, home movers and remortgages.
(15) Director general, Paul Smee says the clampdown on high loans will mainly affect the capital: "Limiting the level of a lender's lending to no more than 15% of new mortgages at 4.5 times income or above (and none at all for Help to Buy guaranteed loans) is likely to impact the London market more than elsewhere.
(16) Anna Smee, a business strategist at Hundred Consulting, said many shoppers were treating themselves to top-of-the-range food from the supermarket rather than going to restaurants.
(17) Smee said: “The market was a slow starter this year, but this quarter shows it is now firmly on an upward trajectory.
(18) Paul Smee, the director general of the Council of Mortgage Lenders, said: "Although monthly lending is still running at far less than half its typical monthly level during the peak, there is no doubt that the mortgage market is firmly open for business.
(19) "Despite the seasonal dip in lending that we normally see in December, the underlying trend for year-on-year increases in house purchase activity continued in 2012," said the CML's director general, Paul Smee.
(20) Paul Smee, director-general of the CML, said: “Those lenders who used the arrears calculation methodology now identified as problematic did so in good faith, believing that they complied with the rules and were acting in customer interests.