VIEWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does viewing mean? 

• VIEWING (noun)
  The noun VIEWING has 2 senses:

1. the display of a motion picture

2. a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial

  Familiarity information: VIEWING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIEWING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The display of a motion picture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

screening; showing; viewing

Hypernyms ("viewing" is a kind of...):

display (exhibiting openly in public view)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "viewing"):

preview (a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A vigil held over a corpse the night before burial

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

viewing; wake

Context example:

there's no weeping at an Irish wake

Hypernyms ("viewing" is a kind of...):

vigil; watch (the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival))

 Context examples 

Dates on which an animal model record was entered, modified or release to the intended viewing audience.

(Date Available, NCI Thesaurus)

A cystoscope is a thin, tube-like instrument with a light and a lens for viewing.

(Cystoscopy, NCI Dictionary)

Exhibit, present, or demonstrate for viewing.

(Display, NCI Thesaurus)

An endoscope has a light and a lens for viewing and may have a tool to remove tissue.

(Endoscope, NCI Dictionary)

A nasoscope is a thin, tube-like instrument with a light and a lens for viewing.

(Nasoscopy, NCI Dictionary)

An endoscope is a thin, tube-like instrument that has a light and a lens for viewing.

(Endoscopic ultrasound, NCI Dictionary)

A cystoscope has a light and a lens for viewing and may have a tool to remove tissue.

(Cystoscope, NCI Dictionary)

Viewing distant galaxies means looking back through time, in a sense.

(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)

Instead of viewing them as a stranger, I might have rejoiced in them as my own, and welcomed to them as visitors my uncle and aunt.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Oh! happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)