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Definition: Seen |
SeenAdjective1. Witnessed at first hand. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "seen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SEEN | French | Societe Europeenne de l'Energie Nucleaire | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: SeenSynonym: observed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Go downhill, go to rack and ruin; (destruction), go to the dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears. |
Beauty | Fit to be seen, passable, not amiss. |
Deterioration | Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse,Verb: be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated; Adjective:; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane; (decrease); ebb; retrograde; - decline, droop; go down; (sink); go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out of the frying pan into the fire. |
Oldness | Verb: be old; Adjective: have had its day, have seen its day; become old; Adjective: age, fade, senesce. |
Poverty | Verb: be poor; Adjective: want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny; (money), not have a shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue; run into debt; (debt). |
Ugliness | Adjective: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned); homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless; not fit to be seen; |
Unconformity | Phrase: never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like. |
Unintelligibility | Obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery; opaque, dense; undiscernible; (invisible); misty; (opaque); hidden; latent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Seen |
| Etymologies containing "seen": Well-seen. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Seen" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (lakes, lochs). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You haven't seen it. (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) I've seen an agent punched through a concrete wall (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) And what sunrises, seen as the human eye could never see them: silver at first, then, as the years progressed, in tones of purple, red, and my long lost blue (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Like I've never seen the sky before (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) You know, I seen you a lot of times before (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Budd Schulberg.) | |
Lyrics | I want to know, Have you ever seen the rain (HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN?; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) She was the best damn woman I had ever seen (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC) Said you ain't seen nothin' till you're down on a muffin ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith) It is a special one, it's never seen the sun (Spanish Harlem; performing artist: Aretha Franklin) Seen a lot of broken hearts go sailing by (Ghost Of You And Me; performing artist: BBMak) | |
Clever | More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat. (references; author: Mark Twain) Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it. (references; author: unknown) Honk If You've Never Seen An Uzi Fired From A Car Window. (references; author: unknown) The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive. (references; author: unknown) I don't approve of political jokes… I've seen too many of them get elected. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Caffeteria or How Are You Going to Keep Her Down on the Farm after She's Seen Paris Twice (1973) Rise and Fall of the World as Seen from a Sexual Position (1972) Le Québec as Seen by Cartier-Bresson (1969) Forbidden Flesh: As Seen from a Hayloft in the Hills (1968) Who Has Seen the Wind? (1965) | |
Song Titles | Have You Seen Her (performing artist: M.C. Hammer) Have You Ever Seen Her (performing artist: The Chi-Lites) Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose (performing artist: Tony Orlando & Dawn) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Seen is melanoma with a border that is uneven, ragged, or notched. Part of the ABCDs for detection of melanoma. See artwork: WYNTK-15b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | The NIH sign is seen in front of the west side of Building 37, which houses many cancer laboratories. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ||
Marked germinal center hyperplasia and nodular paracortical hyperplasia are seen in this low-power view. Credit: CDC. | St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE) virus seen in a mosquito salivary gland, is normally transmitted to humans though the bite of a Culex mosquito. Credit: CDC. | ||
![]() | Hurricane Lenny as seen from SeaWiFS 14 November 1999. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Challenger as seen from SPAS. Credit: NASA. |
![]() | Andes Mountains as seen from Gemini 7. Credit: NASA. | This is a rare view of Saturn's rings seen just after the Sun has set below the ring plane. ... Credit: NASA. | |
Saturn's magnificent ring system is seen tilted edge-on — for the second time in 1995 - in ... Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Hubble Space Telescope (HST) being refurbished during the STS 61 flight.Astronauts Story Musgrave and Jeffrey Hoffman are seen during the last of the five EVAs. Australia's west coast can be seen in the background. Credit: NASA. | |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Seen Better Days" by Peter E. Leonard Commentary: "This flower has seen better days. Free to use for any purpose, although I would appreciate credit fo the photo. ©2003 Peter E. Leonard." | "Manatee Seen from Underwater f" by David Sinofksy Commentary: "Mantee from Underwater from Florida Zoo." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Bovee | The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it. |
Johann Kaspar Lavater | Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? |
Lord Byron | Romances I never read like those I have seen. |
Miguel De Cervantes | Thou hast seen nothing yet. |
Oliver Goldsmith | Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. |
Ronald Reagan | If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all. |
Thomas Carlyle | The actual well seen is ideal. |
| No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes. | |
William Shakespeare | We have seen better days. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | He must have lived but a little while in the world, who has not seen examples of this in his time; and he must have read very little, who cannot produce examples of it in all sorts of governments in the world. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Hitherto, every form of society has been based, as we have already seen, on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | From what I have seen of our Russian friends and Allies during the war, I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | You must have seen that I did. |
Horrors | Carroll, Lewis | I saw a monster come with speed, Its face of grimmliest green, On human beings used to feed, Most dreadful to be seen. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Not a vestige of it was to be seen. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The latter was by far the most showy and gallant figure, so far as apparel went, anywhere to be seen among the multitude |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Fauchelevent had seen this mere artisan grow rich, while he himself, a professional man, had been going to ruin |
The Hind and the Panther | John Dryden | For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | You have often seen the sand on the seashore |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Never seen no cotton like this here California cotton |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | One day in much good company I was asked by a person of quality, whether I had seen any of their Struldbrugs, or Immortals |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He had seen them asleep thus |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Has grown larger (as seen on followup x-ray studies). (references) | |
Patients who are badly hurt or very sick are seen first. (references) | ||
This appears to have been seen most commonly with papaverine. (references) | ||
Business | The U.S. is seen as “modern, advanced and beautiful. (references) | |
This classification should be seen as a working assumption. (references) | ||
Since 1990, the UK apparel industry has seen a 17% rise in sales. (references) | ||
Children | Fiji | Homeless children often are seen on the street working as shoeshine boys or involved in prostitution. (references) |
Hungary | Taking away the family allowance is thus seen by Roma as punishment for neglecting to do something that they cannot afford. (references) | |
Romania | In addition large numbers of impoverished and apparently homeless, but not necessarily orphaned, children were seen on the streets of the larger cities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Ukraine | The third and fourth most popular stations are seen as propresidential. (references) |
Mexico | Valentín Davila Martinez, a journalist with Radio Canon, was reported as "missing" and last seen on August 9 in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | However, Muslims, particularly older men, were seen in Tashkent wearing prayer robes and women were seen wearing the Muslim headscarf and, less commonly, the veil. (references) | |
Discrimination | Brazil | A prominent example of violence directed at homosexuals occurred in Sao Paulo in February 2000, when Edson Neris da Silva was beaten to death by a skinhead gang after having been seen holding hands with another man. (references) |
Economic History | Guatemala | Many fast food mobile carts can now be seen everywhere. (references) |
Mexico | The remainder of the energy sector has seen little change. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | Her husband has not been seen since. (references) |
Ecuador | He was not seen or heard from thereafter. (references) | |
Uganda | Akika disappeared and had not been seen by year's end. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Nicaragua | First, most participants in these groups are Amerindians who long have seen themselves as having a separate culture. (references) |
Minorities | Cambodia | However, animosity toward ethnic Vietnamese who are seen as a threat to the nation and culture continues. (references) |
Macedonia | Albanian-language education remained a crucial issue for the ethnic-Albanian community; it is seen as vital for preserving Albanian heritage and culture. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | Women often were seen in public wearing trousers or with their heads uncovered. (references) |
TAIWAN | The government agency responsible is seen as unable to process the information adequately. (references) | |
Niger | Two prisoners remained missing after having last been seen in the custody of military officers. (references) | |
Political Rights | Madagascar | The elections since the 1998 revision of the Constitution have seen the growing dominance of the President and his political party, AREMA. (references) |
Trade | Korea | Whether or not these changes are liberalizing trade remains to be seen. (references) |
India | The 1990-2002 Indian EXIM policy has seen a steady liberalization of Indian import and export regulations. (references) | |
Travel | South Africa | Loud sports jackets and slacks are rarely seen at work. (references) |
Honduras | Eight local TV stations can be seen in Honduras, all with Spanish-language programming. (references) | |
Vietnam | Major cities have also seen a boom in the opening of mini-hotels oriented toward the business client and long-term guest. (references) | |
Women | Nepal | This unwillingness to recognize violence against women and girls as unacceptable in daily life is seen not just in the medical profession, but among the police and politicians as well. (references) |
Afghanistan | In December 1998, the Taliban ordered that bus drivers who took female passengers must encase the bus in curtains and put up a curtain so that the female passengers cannot see or be seen by the driver. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Romani children are often seen begging on the streets in Sarajevo. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe in which so many pious naturalists have seen a conspicuous evidence of design. The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Art Linkletter | He'd be a little surprised at some of it. But it's beautiful what's out there. In fact, they got a new show down at Adventure Land called Aladin that he would be delighted with. It's one of the best shows I've ever seen. |
Celine Dion | I've seen diapers. And believe me, my mother is right. What's in the pooh-pooh is like the Bible. The truth is in there. |
Dick Cheney | Well, I haven't seen the recent one, but all of the ones that have come out in the last few months are all of the kind that were probably recorded before December. |
Geoffrey Hoon | My impression is that it will be a mixture of things. Those that resist will certainly suffer in the way that we've seen thousands of Iraqis suffer at the hands of coalition forces when they have stood and fought. |
Karl Lagerfeld | This I can answer as a question in a few years because in the middle of things, you can not answer because you have not the distance. What you think it is may be seen from the near future. |
Phyllis Diller | Oh, please. Shaggy thing. I've seen Halloween outfits that cost more. So they wanted to do it again, and I said let me set up one. So I was nude on a bear rug like babies. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Speaker, this week we've seen further violence in the Middle East, Palestinian terrorists, suicide bombers, as well as the Israeli tanks moving in further and occupying the West Bank. |
Trisha Meili | You know, I don't know. I just don't know. And so, you read that the policeman who first saw me saying that he'd never seen anyone beaten so badly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | My very reluctance to ascribe too much importance to the opposition, had its extent been accurately seen, would have been a decided inducement to the smallest efficient numbers. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | This is so true, that of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Since then we have seen demonstrated the strength of the inflationary pressures which we have to face. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Cabling can be seen running from the missile-ready tents to power generators nearby. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | If we act imaginatively and boldly, as we acted then, this period will in retrospect be seen as one of the great creative moments of our Nation's history. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We have also seen and encouraged a national movement of parents and citizens committed to reversing the very serious and disturbing trends of adolescent drug abuse. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | You may have seen President Clinton draw his own veto pen on television just last week. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Only the dead have seen the end of conflict. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Now, we have all seen what happens when guns fall into the wrong hands. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Yet, in the events that have challenged us, we have also seen the character that will deliver us. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Seen" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 99.78% of the time. "Seen" is used about 37,584 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 99.78% | 37,501 | 218 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 0.22% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37,584 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "seen" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Seen | Last name | 130 | 68,047 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "seen": be dimly seen ♦ be seen ♦ can be seen ♦ fit to be seen ♦ have seen better days ♦ i have never seen it before ♦ i haven't seen you for ages age so long ♦ if only you could have seen him! ♦ it has to be seen ♦ never was seen the like ♦ nobody has seen it ♦ remains to be seen ♦ seen area ♦ seen area map ♦ seen from within ♦ seldom seen ♦ when first seen. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "seen": seen-and-said, seen-it-all, seen-to. | |
Ending with "seen": half-seen, rarely-seen. | |
Containing "seen": never-seen-before, rarely-seen-before, world-seen-from-just-underneath. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "seen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | parë (boodle, pair). (various references) | |
Arabic | منظور (visible). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | видян. (various references) | |
Chinese | 看见 (out-of-sight, SEE, seeing, sighted, sighting). (various references) | |
Czech | příè.min. od see (sawn). (various references) | |
Danish | synligt område (direct visible area, directly visible area, seen area), strukturen ser grynet ud (in the structure a roughening can be seen), bundstreng med fuld gennemsvejsning (the first run of a weld, the penetration bead of which can be seen), direkte synligt område (direct visible area, directly visible area, seen area), det fremgaar heraf,at beliggenheden af Acl-punktet afhaenger af opvarmningshastigheden eller af gloedetiden i dette temperaturinterval (it can therefore be seen, tLat the Acl tePperature depends on the heating rate or the annealing time), det er tydeligt,at denne netstruktur er uden direkte sammenhaeng med den primaere baandstruktur,den er vaesentligt finere end sejgringsstriberne (but is on a much finer scale than the segregations, it can be seen that the network does not coincide with the primary banded structure), der ses rester af et cementitnet,der sandsynligvis er dannet paa austenitkorngraenserne (parts of a cementite network can be seen, which has been formed at the austenite grain boundaries), den kubiske tekstur giver minimale hysteresetab i længde-og tværretning;den har dog endnu ikke opnået stor industriel udvikling som Goss'teksturen (but has not yet seen the wide industrial development of the Goss texture, the cubic texture gives the smallest hysteresis losses in the longitudinal and transverse directions), af ekstraktionsreplikaen fremgaar det,at de perlitiske karbidlameller dels foreligger som lange,tynde og parallelt liggende lameller og dels som kortere,tykkere og vifteformede lameller (but that it can also consist of tree-like growths containing many lamellae, it can be seen from the extraction replica that the pearlite carbide consists partly of long thin lamellae), Burton's linie (blue gum, blue line, bluish discoloration of the gums at the margin of the teeth seen in chronic lead poisoning(4), Burton line, Burton sign, Burtonian line, Burton's line, lead line), hvornår reservekravet skal være opfyldt (dates when the reserve requirements have to be seen to be satisfied), bundfaldet opslemmes igen;under mikroskopet ses kun de roede blodlegemersskygger (the sediment is returned to a state of suspension and under the microscope are seen the red corpuscle shadows), blysøm (blue gum, blue line, bluish discoloration of the gums at the margin of the teeth seen in chronic lead poisoning(4), Burton line, Burton sign, Burtonian line, Burton's line, lead hem, lead line), blyrand (blue gum, blue line, bluish discoloration of the gums at the margin of the teeth seen in chronic lead poisoning(4), Burton line, Burtonian line, Burton's line, lead line), bainit,der kan ses som den lysere aetsende strukturbestanddel (bainite which can be seen as the lighter etching constituent), den direkte replika viser,at begraensningerne af perlitomraaderne er skarpe,naar der er aendring af orienteringen af deres ferritgrundmasse i forhold til nabokorn af proeutektoid ferrit (in the surface replica it can be seen that the pearlite regions have sharp boundaries if the pearlitic ferrite matrix is in contact with differently oriented pro-eutectoid ferrite grains), hvis vaekstretningen af de frie blaerer i en smelte er rettet opad,kan det bemaerkes,at blaererne ikke udvikler sig med en egen vaekstretning,men at de antager stoerkningsfrontens bevaegelsesretning (it can be seen that if decantation of free bubbles in a liquid takes place in an upward direction, the blowholes do not develop according to a characteristic tropism but adopt the direction of advance of the solidification front), undertiden ser man,at perlitoeerne er skarpt afgraensede imod de omliggende ferritkorn (sometimes it can be seen that the pearlite regions are sharply terminated against the surrounding ferrite grains), i de sidste to-tre aar er der sket en interessant udvikling inden for avancerede boreskibe med turret-forankring,som goer det muligt for fartoejet at staevne soeen,og endvidere er de vellykkede dinamiske positionsfastholdelse jo kommet frem,hvorved det er (the last two or three years have seen some interesting developments in sophisticated drillships with turret mooring allowing the vessel to keep head to sea and of course the introduction of successful dynamic positioning permitting vessels to operate in u), i det lysmikroskopiske billede og i replikaen er cementittens saerlige udformning vanskelig at erkende paa grund af haemningen af aetsningen (because of the retarded etching this special formation of cementite cannot be seen in the optical micrograph or in the replica), i staal med lavt kulstofindhold iagttages ofte en uregelmaessig kornstoerrelse i den omdannede struktur (in low carbon steels, often an irregular grain size is seen in the transformed structure), i strukturen af det rigtigt haerdede staal er austenitkorngraenserne synlige (in the structure of the properly hardened steel, the austenite grain boundaries can be seen), kort over udkigspostens synsomraade (seen area map, visibility area map, visibility map, visible area map), kun nogle faa korn aetses meget moerke,de ligger fordelt i et netvaerk (only a few particles are darkly stained and can be seen to form a network type of distribution), naaleformen af den oprindelige martensit-struktur er endnu klart synlig (can also be seen, originating from the initial martensitic structure, the acicular structure), ofte bemaerkes omkring silikat-eller sulfidindeslutningerne baand af ferrit,der er klart synlige paa den perlitiske baggrund (sometimes the silicate or sulphide inclusions are seen to be surrounded by a band of ferrite which is clearly visible on the pearlite baCkground), ofte iagttages i anloebnings-og sejhaerdningsstrukturen saerligt moerktaetsende naale side om side med de lyse naale (especially darktching together with light etching needles are often seen, in a tempered structure), udover sejgringer kan ghost-lines ogsaa indeholde mikrolunkere,der bliver synlige paa en brudflade eller efter aetsning,hvor vaesken siver ud af porerne igen (ghosts may contain porosity which can be seen on a fracture surface or after etching and penetrant inspection, in addition to segregates), foerst ved anloebning ved 750 grader C indtraeder en saa staerk vaekst af karbiderne,at de bliver lysmikroskopisk synlige (after tempering at 750 C does marked coarsening of the carbides occur, so that the carbide particles can be seen under the optical microscope). (various references) | |
Dutch | soms ziet men dat de silicaat-of sulfide-insluitsels omgeven zijn door een ferrietbaan die duidelijk zichtbaar is tegen de perlietachtergrond (sometimes the silicate or sulphide inclusions are seen to be surrounded by a band of ferrite which is clearly visible on the pearlite baCkground), soms kan men zien dat de perlietgebieden scherp begrensd zijn door de hen omringende ferrietkorrels (sometimes it can be seen that the pearlite regions are sharply terminated against the surrounding ferrite grains), slechts enkele korrels zijn donker gekleurd;deze zijn als een netwerk door de structuur verdeeld (only a few particles are darkly stained and can be seen to form a network type of distribution), de kubische textuur geeft minimale hysteresisverliezen in langs-en dwarsrichting;zij heeft echter nog niet de grote industriële ontwikkeling doorgemaakt zoals de Goss textuur (but has not yet seen the wide industrial development of the Goss texture, the cubic texture gives the smallest hysteresis losses in the longitudinal and transverse directions), het extractie-replica toont dat de perlietische carbiden gedeeltelijk uit lange,dunne lamellen bestaan,maar ook boomvormig gegroeide gebieden bevat,die elk vele lamellen bevatten (but that it can also consist of tree-like growths containing many lamellae, it can be seen from the extraction replica that the pearlite carbide consists partly of long thin lamellae), halo saturninus (blue gum, blue line, bluish discoloration of the gums at the margin of the teeth seen in chronic lead poisoning(4), Burton line, Burtonian line, Burton's line, lead line), door de etsvertraging is deze bijzondere vorm van cementietvorming noch lichtmicroscopisch,noch in een replica te ontdekken (because of the retarded etching this special formation of cementite cannot be seen in the optical micrograph or in the replica), delen van een cementietnetwerk zijn zichtbaar dat vermoedelijk aan de korrelgrenzen van het austeniet is gevormd (parts of a cementite network can be seen, which has been formed at the austenite grain boundaries), de neerslag wordt wederom in staat van suspensie gebracht en bij microscopische onderzoek neemt men schimmen van de erythrocyten waar (the sediment is returned to a state of suspension and under the microscope are seen the red corpuscle shadows), hieruit is op te maken dat de waarde van Acl temperatuur afhangt van de duur van de opwarmtijd of van de tijdsduur van het gloeien (it can therefore be seen, tLat the Acl tePperature depends on the heating rate or the annealing time), de laatste twee à drie jaar hebben enkele interessante ontwikkelingen te zien gegeven op het gebied van ingenieuze boorschepen,die voorzien zijn een torenmeersysteem waardoor het schip met de kop in zee kan blijven steken.En dan was er natuurlijk de invo (the last two or three years have seen some interesting developments in sophisticated drillships with turret mooring allowing the vessel to keep head to sea and of course the introduction of successful dynamic positioning permitting vessels to operate in u), in staalsoorten met een laag koolstofgehalte,zoals constructiestaal,ziet men na de omzetting in de structuur een ongelijkmatige korrelgrootte (in low carbon steels, often an irregular grain size is seen in the transformed structure), bij een op de juiste wijze gehard staal kan men in de structuur de austenietkorrelgrenzen onderscheiden (in the structure of the properly hardened steel, the austenite grain boundaries can be seen), behalve uitscheidingen kunnen de ghost-lines ook microslinkholten bevatten die bij breuk zichtbaar worden of ook na etsen en penetrant onderzoek (ghosts may contain porosity which can be seen on a fracture surface or after etching and penetrant inspection, in addition to segregates), bainiet,dat als lichter aangeëtst bestanddeel te herkennen is (bainite which can be seen as the lighter etching constituent), de naaldstructuur die vanuit de oorspronkelijke martensitische structuur is ontstaan,is ook te zien (can also be seen, originating from the initial martensitic structure, the acicular structure), als de afzetting van de vrije gasblazen in een smelt in opwaartse richting geschiedt,ontwikkelen de gasblazen zich niet in een bepaalde groeirichting maar volgen de richting waarin het stollingsfront voortschrijdt (it can be seen that if decantation of free bubbles in a liquid takes place in an upward direction, the blowholes do not develop according to a characteristic tropism but adopt the direction of advance of the solidification front), in een replica van het oppervlak is te zien dat de perlietgebieden duidelijke grenzen hebben als de perlietische ferrietmatrix in contact is met anders georiënteerde pré-eutectische ferrietkorrels (in the surface replica it can be seen that the pearlite regions have sharp boundaries if the pearlitic ferrite matrix is in contact with differently oriented pro-eutectoid ferrite grains), zichtbaarheidskaart (seen area map, visibility area map, visibility map, visible area map), lijn van Burton (blue gum, blue line, bluish discoloration of the gums at the margin of the teeth seen in chronic lead poisoning(4), Burton line, Burton sign, Burtonian line, Burton's line, lead line), loodlijn (aft, blue gum, blue line, bluish discoloration of the gums at the margin of the teeth seen in chronic lead poisoning(4), Burton line, Burtonian line, Burton's line, forward, lead line, midship perpendiculars), loodzoom (blue gum, blue line, bluish discoloration of the gums at the margin of the teeth seen in chronic lead poisoning(4), Burton line, Burton sign, Burtonian line, Burton's line, lead hem, lead line), men ziet dat de netwerkstructuur niet overeenkomt met de oorspronkelijke banenstructuur maar veel fijner is dan de uitscheidingen (but is on a much finer scale than the segregations, it can be seen that the network does not coincide with the primary banded structure), na ontlaten bij 750 deg.C treedt een dermate vergroving van de carbiden op dat deze reeds met een lichtmicroscoop kunnen worden waargenomen (after tempering at 750 C does marked coarsening of the carbides occur, so that the carbide particles can be seen under the optical microscope), tijdstippen waarop het bedrag der reserves getoetst wordt (dates when the reserve requirements have to be seen to be satisfied), vaak treft men in ontlaatstructuren bijzonder donker geëtste naalden naast lichter geëtste aan (especially darktching together with light etching needles are often seen, in a tempered structure), zichtbaar doorgelaste grondlaag (the first run of a weld, the penetration bead of which can be seen), in de structuur ziet men een vergroving (in the structure a roughening can be seen). (various references) | |
Finnish | siintää (be dimly seen), talo ei näy tänne (the house cannot be seen from here), tästä näkyy (it can be seen from this), olisin mielelläni tavannut hänet (I would like to have seen him), näyttäytyä (appear, be seen, show oneself), näkyä (appear, be discerned, be seen, be visible), nähtäväksi jää (it remains to be seen), läpitunkeutunut yksipuolinen hitsi (a weld made from one side the penetration bead of which can be seen), läpitunkeutunut pohjapalko (the first run of a weld, the penetration bead of which can be seen), käydä ilmi (be evident, be seen, emerge, transpire), johan olet sen nähnyt (haven't you?, you have seen it), en ole nähnyt häntä viikkoon (I have not seen him for a week), elämää kokenut (experienced, who has seen a great deal of life). (various references) | |
French | vus, vu. (various references) | |
German | gesehen (looked, saw, viewed). (various references) | |
Greek | μετοχή του see. (various references) | |
Guarani | rehecháma (have you seen). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להתראות (adieu, au revoir, be seen, cheerio, farewell, good bye, meet, so long), להשתקף (be reflected, be seen, mirror), להשקף על (be seen, be visible, overlook). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemügyre vesz (saw, to see, to take stock of, to traverse), utánanéz vminek (saw, to check on sg, to check up on sg, to look up, to see, to see to sg), meglátogat (call on, come by, saw, to call, to call at, to call on, to look up, to see, to visit, visit), látott, lát (saw, see, to descry, to ken, to pick up, to see), gondoskodik vmiről (saw, to attend to sg, to provide for, to see, to see to sg, to take care of sg), fogad vkit (saw, to be gracious towards sy, to see), elkísér vhova (saw, to see), belát (admit to, saw, to see), ért (catch, intelligibility, realize, saw, to catch on, to make of, to savvy, to see, understand), átél (experience, live through, saw, to live through, to pass through, to project, to project oneself into sg, to see). (various references) | |
Italian | visto (check, looked, viewed, visa), visti. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 透けて写る (to be seen through), 見果てる (to be seen to the end, to see through to the finish), 見える (to appear, to be in sight, to be seen, to look, to seem), 絶後 (never to be seen again), 人目を忍ぶ (to avoid being seen, to do secretly), 散見 (being seen here and there), 滅多に見られない図 (seldom seen sight), 横顔 (face in profile, face seen from the side, profile), 子マダム (wealthy women who strive to follow the fashions exactly and be seen in all the right place), 微かに見える (to be seen dimly), 影も形も無い (disappear without a trace, nowhere to be seen), 影も形もない (disappear without a trace, nowhere to be seen), 仄めく (glimmer, to be seen dimly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すけてうつる (to be seen through), ぜつご (never to be seen again), さんけん (being seen here and there, the three powers of government), ほのめく (glimmer, to be seen dimly), かすかにみえる (to be seen dimly), かげもかたちもない (disappear without a trace, nowhere to be seen), こマダム (wealthy women who strive to follow the fashions exactly and be seen in all the right place), めったにみられないず (seldom seen sight), よこがお (face in profile, face seen from the side, profile), みはてる (to be seen to the end, to see through to the finish), みえる (to appear, to be in sight, to be seen, to look, to seem). (various references) | |
Korean | 보는 (Looked, sighted, Watched). (various references) | |
Malagasy | nifankahita (seen by each other), hitanao (seen by you), hitako (seen by me). (various references) | |
Manx | fakinit (observed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eensay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | visto (seeing, vidimus, viewed, visa). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | visto. (various references) | |
Romanian | vãzut, participiu trecut de la see. (various references) | |
Russian | видеть (descry, discern, saw, see, sees), от see. (various references) | |
Scottish | spaideil (conceited as seen in gait, foppish, swaggering), léir (altogether, distress, entirely, pain, perception, power of seeing or being seen : is, sight, torment, wholly), facas (was not seen), do-fhaicsinneach (a. hard to be seen), chìtear (va.irr. will or shall be seen). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | particip proš. od see. (various references) | |
Somali | aragteen, arag. (various references) | |
Sotho | bone (have seen). (various references) | |
Spanish | visto (apparent, evident, evidently, obvious, obviously, thing, viewed), pp de see. (various references) | |
Swedish | sett. (various references) | |
Thai | กริยาช่องที่ 3 ของ see. (various references) | |
Turkish | görülebilir (can be seen, discernible, distinguishable, distinguished, visible, visual). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | toà giám mục chức giám mục (see), quyền giám mục (see). (various references) | |
Welsh | gweledig (visible). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | optos. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 8 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quae viderunt oculi tui ne proferas in iurgio cito ne postea emendare non possis cum dehonestaveris amicum tuum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | That thin eyen seyen, ne speke thou soone in strif; lest parauenture thou mowe not amende, whan thou hast dishonestid thi frend. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbor hath put thee to shame. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Dili ka magmadali-dalion sa pagpanlimbasog, Tingali unya dili ka mahibalo sa imong pagabuhaton sa katapusan niana, Sa diha nga ang imong isigkatawo magapakaulaw kanimo. |
| Croatian | Što su ti oèi vidjele ne iznosi prebrzo na raspru; jer što æeš uèiniti na koncu kad te opovrgne bližnji tvoj? |
| Danish | skrid ikke til Trætte straks; thi hvad vil du siden gøre, når din Næste gør dig til Skamme? |
| Dutch | Vaar niet haastelijk voort om te twisten, opdat gij misschien in het laatste daarvan niet wat doet, als uw naaste u zou mogen beschaamd hebben. |
| Finnish | Älä ole kärkäs käräjöimään; muutoin sinulla ei lopulta ole, mitä tehdä, kun vastapuolesi on saattanut sinut häpeään. |
| French | Ne te hâte pas d`entrer en contestation, De peur qu`à la fin tu ne saches que faire, Lorsque ton prochain t`aura outragé. |
| German | Fahre nicht bald heraus, zu zanken; denn was willst du hernach machen, wenn dich dein Nächster beschämt hat? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Janganlah terburu-buru membawa perkara ke pengadilan; sebab, kalau kemudian engkau terbukti salah apa lagi yang dapat kaulakukan? |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jangan gopoh-gopoh engkau masuk berhukum, kalau-kalau pada akhirnya engkau tiada boleh lepas, apabila lawanmu mendatangkan malu kepadamu. |
| Italian | non metterlo subito fuori in un processo; altrimenti che farai alla fine, quando il tuo prossimo ti svergognerà? |
| Maori | ¶ Kei hohoro te haere ki te ngangare, kei kore e kitea e koe tau e mea ai i tona mutunga iho, ina meinga koe e tou hoa kia whakama. |
| Norwegian | Gi dig ikke for hastig i strid med nogen, forat det ikke skal sies: Hvad vil du gjøre til slutt når motparten vinner saken til din skam? |
| Rumanian | Nu te grqbi sq te iei la ceartq, ca nu cumva la urmq sq nu wtii ce sq faci, cknd te va lua la ocqri aproapele tqu. - |
| Russian | оЕ ЧУФХРБК РПУРЕЫОП Ч ФСЦВХ: ЙОБЮЕ ЮФП ВХДЕЫШ ДЕМБФШ РТЙ ПЛПОЮБОЙЙ, ЛПЗДБ УПРЕТОЙЛ ФЧПК ПУТБНЙФ ФЕВС? |
| Swedish | Var icke för hastig att begynna en tvist; vad vill du eljest göra längre fram, om din vederpart kommer dig på skam? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "seen": foreseen, kamseen, khamseen, outseen, overseen, reseen, sightseen, unforeseen, unseen. (additional references) | |
Words containing "seen": kamseens, khamseens. (additional references) | |
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"Seen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceen, esan, Esden, esdn, esen, Esene, esin, esn, esne, Esneh, espn, essen, Fsyn, Isyn, Oseen, qeen, saben, saeh, Saen, Saens, safen, sagen, saxen, sayan, sayen, sayne, sben, sceen, scen, sden, seaon, sebeb, seben, Sebenik, seden, seeb, seee, seeg, seens, seeq, seey, seez, segn, sehen, seign, sein, seina, sej, seje, seken, Seleena, Selen, Seleni, semn, s'en, sene, Seneb, Senen, senet, senew, Senex, Senn, seno, senq, seon, Serein, seren, Sereny, sern, seun, sexen, seyn, sfen, sgen, shen, Sieben, sieh, sien, sient, siwen, sixen, sjen, skeen, slen, smen, snee, snen, soben, soen, spean, spen, spewen, sqen, sren, srene, ssen, steenk, sten, suen, sueno, sven, swean, sween, swen, sxen, syan, syen, syin, sy'n, synd, synn, tsien, xene, zaen, zean, zeen, Zeena, Zelen, zene, zenn, zern. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "seen" (pronounced sē"n) |
| 3 | s ē" n | casein, foreseen, obscene, scene, unforeseen, unseen, vaccine. |
| 2 | -ē" n | fifteen, figurine, agin, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, benzene, between, caffeine, canteen, careen, Citrine, clean, colleen, convene, cuisine, Dean, demean, eighteen, fourteen, gelatine, gene, glean, green, haen, intervene, Jean, keen, latrine, lean, lien, machine, marine, mean, mien, Moline, Moreen, mujahedeen, mujahideen, Nene, nineteen, onscreen, preen, preteen, propylene, queen, ravine, reconvene, Sabine, saline, sardine, screen, serene, seventeen, sheen, sixteen, skeen, skene, spleen, sunscreen, tambourine, tangerine, teen, thirteen, trampoline, Treen, umpteen, unclean, wean, wolverine. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sene. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-s" | |
-1 letter: ens, nee, see, sen. | |
-2 letters: en, es, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-s" | |
+1 letter: benes, cense, denes, dense, ensue, ernes, evens, genes, keens, knees, lenes, lense, mense, mesne, needs, neems, neeps, nenes, neves, peens, penes, scene, seine, semen, sense, sente, seven, sheen, skeen, skene, sneer, teens, tense, weens. | |
+2 letters: aeneus, agenes, akenes, aneles, bennes, censed, censer, censes, denies, denser, dienes, donees, emends, enates, encase, enders, endues, enemas, enisle, enmesh, enserf, ensile, ensued, ensues, ensure, enters, enures, envies, eosine, events, exines, fences, flense, genets, genies, genres, gentes, greens, kernes, kneels, lebens, lensed, lenses, leones, lessen, mensae, mensed, menses, mesnes, nereis, nerves, nesses, nested, nester, nestle, neumes, newels, newest, newies, newsie, nieces, nieves, peasen, pensee, peones, preens, queens, ranees, renest, renews, rentes, reseen, resend, resent, resewn, sateen, scenes, screen, seamen, seance, secern, seeing, seined, seiner, seines, semens, senate, sended, sender, seneca, senega, senile, sennet, sensed, senses, serein, serene, serine, sevens, sheens, sheeny, signee, skeane, skeens, skenes, sneers, sneesh, sneeze, sneezy, spence, spense, sphene, spleen, sweeny, sweven, teensy, tenets, tensed, tenser, tenses, tenues, ternes, treens, unease, unseen, usneae, veenas, venges, venose, venues, weensy, wheens, yentes. | |
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