Synonyms for seeable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : see
Phonetic Transcription : si

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Définition of seeable

Origin :
  • Old English seon "to see, look, behold; observe, perceive, understand; experience, visit, inspect" (contracted class V strong verb; past tense seah, past participle sewen), from Proto-Germanic *sekhwanan (cf. Old Saxon, Old High German sehan, Middle High German, German sehen, Old Frisian sia, Middle Dutch sien, Old Norse sja, Gothic saihwan), from PIE root *sekw- (2) "to see," which is probably identical with *sekw- (1) "to follow" (see sequel), a root which produced words for "say" in Greek and Latin, and also words for "follow" (cf. Latin sequor), but "opinions differ in regard to the semantic starting-point and sequences" [Buck]. Thus see might originally mean "follow with the eyes."
  • Used in Middle English to mean "behold in the imagination or in a dream" (c.1200), "to recognize the force of (a demonstration)," also c.1200. Sense of "escort" (e.g. to see someone home) first recorded 1607 in Shakespeare. Meaning "to receive as a visitor" is attested from c.1500. Gambling sense of "equal a bet" is from 1590s. See you as a casual farewell first attested 1891. Let me see as a pausing statement is recorded from 1510s. To have seen everything as a hyperbolic expression of astonishment is from 1957.
  • When you have seen one of their Pictures, you have seen all. [Blake, c.1811]
  • adj visible
Example sentences :
  • This, as a purely mechanical process, is seeable by the mind.
  • Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall
  • If it did, it is in the War Department now, possibly, and seeable.
  • Extract from : « The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 3, 1876-1885 » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • He reasons from the definite and the seeable, and refuses to believe in the abstract.
  • Extract from : « Think » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
  • "You'd have seen me the day before yesterday—if you had been seeable," Bryce reminded him with a bright smile.
  • Extract from : « The Valley of the Giants » by Peter B. Kyne
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