preview
SubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt
- Irland//ˈpɹiːvʉu//
- //ˈpɹiːvjuː//
An experience of something in advance.
Substantiv
- 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
An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
- 3
A short collection of clips edited together to advertise a film, television show, etc.; a trailer.
- 4
The act of seeing something in advance.
- 5
A facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.
Herkunft
From pre- + view; compare Old French preveü, past participle of preveoir (“to foresee”).
Verb
- 1
To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.
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
To show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.
Formen
- Plural
- previews
- Präteritum
- previewed
- Partizip II
- previewed
- Partizip I
- previewing
- 3. Person Singular
- previews
preview · An experience of something in advance.
previous · Prior; occurring before something else, either in time or…previously · At an earlier time; already.prey · That which is or may be seized by animals to be devoured.