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say it: see
see is a verb and noun meaning "perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight". It is pronounced /ˈsi/ — see. It carries 25 recorded senses.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
“You have to be a good observer to see all the details”
“Can you see the bird in that tree?”
“He is blind--he cannot see”
perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
“Now I see!”
“I just can't see your point”
“Does she realize how important this decision is?”
“I don't understand the idea”
perceive or be contemporaneous with
“We found Republicans winning the offices”
“You'll see a lot of cheating in this school”
“The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions”
“I want to see results”
be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
“He verified that the valves were closed”
“See that the curtains are closed”
“control the quality of the product”
go to see for professional or business reasons
“You should see a lawyer”
“We had to see a psychiatrist”
receive as a specified guest
“the doctor will see you now”
“The minister doesn't see anybody before noon”
see and understand, have a good eye
“The artist must first learn to see”
deliberate or decide
“See whether you can come tomorrow”
“let's see--which movie should we see tonight?”
undergo or live through a difficult experience
“We had many trials to go through”
“he saw action in Viet Nam”
make sense of; assign a meaning to
“What message do you see in this letter?”
“How do you interpret his behavior?”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for see come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.