Seeingとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

see +‎ -ing

動詞

seeing

1. present participle of see
   • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:

     Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.

派生語

• all-seeing
• seeing to
• seeing-eye dog

形容詞

seeing (not comparable)

1. Having vision; not blind.

同意語

• sighted

名詞

seeing (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 seeings)

1. The action of the verb to see; eyesight.
   • 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)

     To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]

2. (astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.

語源 2

Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".

接続詞

seeing

1. (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.

   Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.