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//ˈpɹiːvjuː// noun, verb, slang
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Noun
- 1 An experience of something in advance.
"It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […]."
- 2 a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public wordnet
- 3 An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc. colloquial
- 4 an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future wordnet
- 5 A short collection of clips edited together to advertise a film, television show, etc.; a trailer.
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- 6 Something seen in advance.
- 7 A facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.
Verb
- 1 To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete. transitive
"Vidal's talk was caled "The Screening Of History," and it was a free-ranging meditation on the United States, the movies, on Vidal's personal history and numerous interconnections. (It also previewed a forthcoming book by the same name.)"
- 2 watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public wordnet
- 3 To show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it. transitive
Etymology
Etymology 1
From pre- + view; compare Old French preveü, past participle of preveoir (“to foresee”).
Etymology 2
From pre- + view; compare Old French preveü, past participle of preveoir (“to foresee”).
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