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Definition: Point Of View |
Point Of ViewNoun1. A mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events". 2. The spatial property of the position from which something is observed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Point Of ViewSynonyms: stand (n), standpoint (n), viewpoint (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In literature, the point of view, or viewpoint (see perspective for the more general and visual sense of this term), is the related experience of the narrator - not that of the author. Authors expressly cannot, in fiction, insert or inject their own voice, as this challenges the suspension of disbelief. The reader must identify with the narrator, not the author.
There is first-person, second-person, and third-person point of view. In a novel, first-person is most common. In self-help or business writing, the second person (addressing "you") is most common. In an encyclopedia or textbook it is most common to work in the third-person, passive voice.
The ability to use viewpoint effectively is one measure of someone's writing ability. This fact is reflected by the writing markschemes used for National Curriculum assessments in England where marks are awarded for the use of viewpoint as part of a wider judgement regarding the composition and effect of the text.
When the abbreviation "POV" is used on Wikipedia when talking about an article, it usually means that the article has bias. That is, the author has inserted what is overtly their own view, rather than citing authorities or evidence. See also: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view for policy recommendations on avoiding a personal point of view when editing pages.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Point of view."
Crosswords: Point Of View |
| English words defined with "point of view": Accidental point ♦ being, beingness, but then ♦ camera angle, case study ♦ diction, dissertation ♦ enunciation, ethically, existence ♦ financially ♦ Lithologically ♦ on one hand, on the one hand, on the other hand ♦ persuasiveness, philosophizer, piece of writing, psychically ♦ stand, standpoint, strength, synoptic, synoptical ♦ then again, thesis ♦ viewpoint ♦ writing, written material. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "point of view": aeropause, atmospheric electric field ♦ bells and whistles ♦ environment map ♦ flowchart, Foreign Market Value, friendly ice ♦ Internet Research Task Force ♦ metallic ore ♦ Pascal-, public-relations practitioner, PUBLIC-RELATIONS REPRESENTATIVE ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ sferics, site criteria, social history, stereochemistry. (references) |
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Screenplays | It's the truth from a certain point of view. (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) From your point of view. (The Terminator; writing credit: James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, Harlan Ellison) From a research point of view, Lecter is our most prized asset. (The Silence of the Lambs; writing credit: Ted Tally) Kind of a bleak point of view there, isn't it, Marty? (Blood Simple.; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) | |
Lyrics | I kept my point of view (I Made It Through The Rain; performing artist: Barry Manilow) Just because you graduate from school so high in the gene pool, that's your point of view (Leaving Town; performing artist: Dexter Freebish) I don't care about their point of view (Everybody's Talkin My Baby Down; performing artist: Dion) We've got to change our point of view, if we want the sky blue (Where's The Love; performing artist: Hanson) And I came away with a different point of view. (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash) | |
Clever | You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Point of View (1965) The Point of View (1920) Rain Coater's Point of View 3 (2003) From Another Point of View (2003) A Perverted Point of View 4 (2002) | |
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 | "Smoking grass is cool." "Coke's even better than pot." "One joint can't hurt." : Your Child Could Use Another Point Of View. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | All depends on the point of view. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The great labor question from a Southern point of view. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | All reactionaries are paper tigers ... From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Horace | Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. |
Lord Byron | My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. |
Samuel Butler | From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Only from the point of view of being the most suffering class does the proletariat exist for them. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Within a period of three weeks after the coming into force of the present Treaty, the port of Strasburg and the port of Kehl shall be constituted, for a period of seven years, a single unit from the point of view of exploitation. (reference) |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | But she hardly sees it from that point of view. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In the meteorological point of view, these cold winds had this peculiarity, that they did not exclude a strong electric tension. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism. |
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Health | Hence, it is important to evaluate outcome from the point of view of the patients themselves, as well as by traditional medical criteria. (references) | |
Patients and family members are encouraged to call back as often as needed to get their questions answered or express their point of view. OSHI receives approximately 1000 inquiries (phone and e-mail) from patients and family members annually requesting access to unapproved products. (references) | ||
Nerve cell bodies with damaged axons, and the axon segment that remains attached, may die by retrograde degeneration, that is, degeneration that begins at the site of injury and progresses back toward the cell body. From a functional point of view, the delayed death of oligodendrocytes and the resulting demyelination of axons are also critical events, because unmyelinated axons do not conduct electrical impulses normally. (references) | ||
Business | From the vendors' point of view, it obviously reduces demand. (references) | |
From a technical point of view, it is possible to divide data communication services providers into primary and secondary providers. (references) | ||
From the operators point of view, this Internet service means a lucrative business vis--vis relatively low cost infrastructual investment. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Poland | The TVN also was the first station to launch a 24-hour news channel, TVN 24. The new broadcasting company, Catholic TV, is considered to present a far-right, conservative point of view, although the impact is marginal and viewership is below 1 percent. (references) |
Tajikistan | There is one government-run television network; its several local stations cover regional and local issues from an official point of view. (references) | |
Economic History | Venezuela | Venezuela remains "under-banked" from a service point of view, but the entry of foreign banks and the return of relative financial stability have improved the quantity and quality of services offered. (references) |
Political Economy | ROMANIA | In order to solve this problem, the government drafted a bill that came into force in 2001 regulating the customs' right to check on imports from the IPR point of view. (references) |
Trade | Netherlands | The Dutch consider themselves to be good Europeans and, from a practical point of view, they see political advantages in buying European, especially when all else is relatively equal in a bid competition. (references) |
Azerbaijan | From a practical point of view, U.S. suppliers should label instructions in Azeri, Turkish, or Russian to provide consumers with product information. (references) | |
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Rudolph Giuliani | From Mr. Ray's point of view, I think it was a very wise and appropriate exercise of prosecutorial discretion. I think, as we look back, historically, I think, all of us now commend President Ford for pardoning President Nixon and putting that behind us. |
Rush Limbaugh | It's because Rush persuades people to a conservative, liberty-loving point of view that control-freak Democrats simply cannot abide. |
Sarah Ferguson | The biggest misconception, from my point of view, although I'd hate to be a spokesperson, is that they are regular human beings that get up out of bed and clean their teeth like we all do. |
William Shatner | I'm consumed, maybe, with the idea of death, the fear and the mystery of it. Much of the work I'm doing now involves the mystery of death, but I'm trying to do it from a comedic point of view. So laughter and grief are two sides of the same coin. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | In a political point of view this Department is chiefly important as affording the means of diffusing knowledge. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Well, one of the strengths of our free society is that any American has a right to reach that conclusion and to advocate that point of view. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We Americans have forged our identity, our very union, from every point of view and every point on the planet, every different opinion. |
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Expressions using "point of view": erroneous point of view ♦ from every point of view ♦ from my point of view ♦ main point of view. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
point of view | 195 |
perverted point of view | 17 |
different point of view | 5 |
another point of view | 3 |
point of view radio talk show | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "point of view"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | standpunt (contention, viewpoint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pikëpamje (angle, aspect, light, mind, notion, outlook, position, side, standpoint, view, viewpoint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وجهة نظر (angle, color, colour, dogmatism, estimation, mind, opinion, perspective, sentiment, slant, standpoint, viewpoint), رآي (notion, position, thinner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '度 (angle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stanovisko (stand, stand point, standpoint, view point, viewpoint), názor (estimation, feeling, idea, notion, opinion, outlook, sentiments, theory, verdict, view, viewpoint), hledisko (angle, aspect, stand point, standpoint, vantage, view point, viewpoint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gøre sine synspunkter gældende (put forward its point of view). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | standpunt (contention, viewpoint), gezichtspunt (viewpoint), gezichtshoek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | näkökohta (aspect, consideration, point), katsantokanta (viewpoint), kanta (attitude, base, counterfoil, head, heel, population, stalk, stand, standard, standpoint, stub), ajatuskanta (standpoint), ajatusaika (standpoint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | point de vue (stand point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Standpunkt (attitude, ground, position, stand, standpoind, standpoint, vantage point, viewpoint), Gesichtspunkt (standpoint, viewpoint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άποψη (aspect, opinion, outlook, perspective, prospect, standpoint, view, viewpoint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קו"ת ראות (sight, viewpoint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szempont (angle, aspect, consideration, regard, standing-point, standpoint, technicality, view point, way), szemszög (angle, slant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sudut pandang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | punto di vista (angle, attitude, slant, standpoint, viewpoint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 視点 (opinion, visual point), 観点 , 見解 (opinion), 見地 , 見様 (way of seeing), ポーランド語 (beeper, death, drink, drip, fall drop by drop, fried potato, mail box, making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job, pager, pocket, pocket bell, pocket bike, pocket computer, pocket money, pocket monster, pocketable, pocket-size, pod, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, point, point and shoot, point getter, point of sales system, point size, pointer, pointing, poison, pole, Polish, poll, polling, ponytail, pop, pop art, pop country, pop fly, pop gospel, pop jazz, popgroup, poppy, pops, popular, popular music, pop-up, pop-up window, POS system, position, positioning, positive, positive film, positron, possibility, post, post-, post office, postcard, post-doc, poster, poster color, poster session, poster value, Post-It, postmaster, postmodern, post-process, postscript, post-season, pot, potato, potato chip, potato chips, pot-au-feu, potency, potential, pottering, soup, to break down, to fail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ポイントオブ"ュー , して" (branch store, dead point, fulcrum, opinion, visual point), か"て" (agar-agar, cold points, drought, dry weather, exhibition sponsored by the government, freezing weather, vegetable gelatin, viewpoint), け"かい (headstrong, obstinate, opinion, prefectural assembly, stubborn), け"ち (disparity, high and low, land survey), みよう (way of seeing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ointpay ofay iewvay punkt widzenia (viewpoint). (various references) ponto de vista (angle, aspect, eye, light, sight, standpoint, viewpoint), visão (eye, eyesight, intuition, shadow, sight, view, vision). (various references) точка зрения (angle, aspect, contention, notion, outlook, school of thought, standpoint, view, view point, viewpoint, view-point). (various references) tačka gledišta (view point, viewpoint). (various references) punto de vista (angle, aspect, outlook, slant, standpoint, viewpoint). (various references) synpunkt (aspect, viewpoint). (various references) bakım (aspect, attendance, attention, care, custody, handling, keep, keeping, maintenance, nurse, nurseling, nursing, nursling, nurture, overhaul, regard, respect, upkeep, way). (various references) nukdaяnazar, jдhet. (various references) точка зору (angle, aspect, contention, notion, outlook, standpoint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Point Of View" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: poin of veiw, poin of view, point of veiw, poiny of view. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-i-n-o-o-p-t-v-w" | |
-2 letters: viewpoint. | |
-5 letters: finite, footie, invite, inwove, option, pinite, pointe, potion, tiepin, townie. | |
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