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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
View \View\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Viewed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Viewing}.]
1. To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore.
O, let me view his visage, being dead. --Shak.
Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what of their state he more might learn. --Milton.
2. To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects.
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
viewing
noun
1: the display of a motion picture [syn: {screening}, {showing}]
2: a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake" [syn: {wake}]
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