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English Dictionary: viewing by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
viewing
n
  1. the display of a motion picture [syn: screening, showing, viewing]
  2. a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake"
    Synonym(s): wake, viewing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   View \View\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Viewed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Viewing}.]
      1. To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention,
            or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye;
            to inspect; to explore.
  
                     O, let me view his visage, being dead. --Shak.
  
                     Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what
                     of their state he more might learn.   --Milton.
  
      2. To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view
            the subject in all its aspects.
  
                     The happiest youth, viewing his progress through.
                                                                              --Shak.
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