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View can be a verb or a noun.
view used as a verb:
- To look at.
- # He viewed the painting and praised the artist for his masterpiece.
- To show.
- # To view the toolbar, go under the View menu and click Toolbar.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
view used as a noun:
- The act of seeing or looking at something.
"He changed seat to get a complete view of the stage." - The range of vision.
"If there are any rabbits in this park, they keep carefully out of our view." - Something to look at, such as a scenery.
"My flat has a view of a junkyard." - A picture.
"There was a view of the accident site on the front page." - A mental image.
"I need more information to get a better view of the situation." - A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
"Your view on evolution is based on religion, not on scientific findings." - A point of view.
"From my view that is a stupid proposition." - An intention or prospect.
"I gave you the money with the view that you would invest it wisely." - 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, the part the user interacts with; a user interface to the underlying logic of the program.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is view?
- Noun usage: He changed seat to get a complete view of the stage.
- Noun usage: If there are any rabbits in this park, they keep carefully out of our view.
- Noun usage: My flat has a view of a junkyard.
- Noun usage: There was a view of the accident site on the front page.
- Noun usage: I need more information to get a better view of the situation.
- Noun usage: Your view on evolution is based on religion, not on scientific findings.
- Noun usage: From my view that is a stupid proposition.
- Noun usage: I gave you the money with the view that you would invest it wisely.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of view are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of view, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
