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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
see (verb)transitive verb
1.
a) to perceive by the eye
b) to perceive or detect as if by sight
2.
a) to have experience of - undergo see army service
b) to come to know - discover
c) to be the setting or time of - the last fifty years have seen a sweeping revolution in science Barry Commoner
3.
a) to form a mental picture of - visualize can still see her as she was years ago
b) to perceive the meaning or importance of - understand
c) to be aware of - recognize sees only our faults
d) to imagine as a possibility - suppose couldn't see him as a crook
4.
a) - examine watch want to see how she handles the problem
b) (1) - read
(2) to read of
c) to attend as a spectator - see a play
5.
a) to take care of provide for - had enough money to see us through
b) to make sure - see that order is kept
6.
a) to regard as - judge
b) to prefer to have - I'll see him hanged first I'll see you dead before I accept your terms
c) to find acceptable or attractive - can't understand what he sees in her
7.
a) to call on - visit
b) (1) to keep company with especially in courtship or dating - had been seeing each other for a year
(2) to grant an interview to - receive the president will see you now
8.
- accompany escort see the guests to the door
9.
intransitive verb
to meet (a bet) in poker or to equal the bet of (a player) - call
1.
a) to give or pay attention
b) to look about
2.
a) to have the power of sight
b) to apprehend objects by sight
c) to perceive objects as if by sight
3.
a) to grasp something mentally
b) to acknowledge or consider something being pointed out - see, I told you it would rain
4.
to make investigation or inquiry
1.
a) archaic - cathedra
b) a cathedral town
c) a seat of a bishop's office, power, or authority
2.
the authority or jurisdiction of a bishop
Thomas Jefferson Jackson 1866–1962 Am. astron. & math.
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
see (verb)1.
to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes
SYNONIMS:
behold, catch, descry, discern, distinguish, espy, eye, look (at), note, notice, observe, perceive, regard, remark, sight, spot, spy, view, witnessRELATED WORDS:
identify, make out, pick out, pick up; attend (to), consider, heed, mark, mind; study, watch; examine, inspect, scan, scrutinize, survey; glance (at), glimpse, peer (at)NEAR ANTONYMS:
disregard, ignore, neglect, overpass, pass over; miss, overlook2.
to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it
SYNONIMS:
endure, feel, have, know, pass, see, suffer, sustain, taste, undergo, witnessRELATED WORDS:
encounter, meet; accept, receive; assimilate, digest3.
to come to an awareness of
SYNONIMS:
ascertain, catch on (to), find out, get on (to), hear, learn, realize, see, wise (up)RELATED WORDS:
hit (on upon), tumble (to); descry, detect, encounter, espy, see, spot; calculate, dope (out), figure out, find, puzzle (out); discern, mind, note, observe, perceive; divineNEAR ANTONYMS:
miss, overlook; disregard, ignore; forget, unlearn; blanket, blot out, cloak, conceal, cover, curtain, enshroud, hide, mask, occult, screen, shroud, veil4.
to have a vague awareness of
SYNONIMS:
perceive, scent, see, sense, smell, tasteRELATED WORDS:
behold, descry, discern, distinguish, espy, eye, look (at), note, notice, observe, perceive, regard, remark, sight, spy, view, witness; ascertain, catch on (to), discover, find out, hear, learn, realize; anticipate, divine, expect, foreknow, foresee; assume, conjecture, guess, presume, speculate, suppose, surmise, suspect5.
to make a social call upon
SYNONIMS:
call (on upon), drop in (on), seeRELATED WORDS:
look up, seek (out); drop byNEAR ANTONYMS:
brush (aside off), cold-shoulder, ignore, snub6.
to have a clear idea of
SYNONIMS:
appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, behold, catch, catch on (to), cognize, compass, conceive, cotton (to on to), decipher, decode, dig, discern, get, grasp, grok, intuit, know, make, make out, perceive, recognize, register, savvy, see, seize, sense, tumble (to), twig, understandRELATED WORDS:
absorb, digest, take in; realize; fathom, penetrate, pierceNEAR ANTONYMS:
misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misperceive, misread, mistake, misunderstand7.
to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship
SYNONIMS:
attend, chaperone ( chaperon), companion, company, convoy, escort, see, squireRELATED WORDS:
walk; associate, consort, pal (around), team (up); defend, guard, protect; bring, conduct, guide, lead, pilot, steer, usher; follow, shadow, tag, tag along, tail; hang (around), hover (over)NEAR ANTONYMS:
abandon, desert, ditch, dump, forsake8.
to form a mental picture of
SYNONIMS:
conceit, conceive, conjure (up), dream, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, ideate, image, picture, see, vision, visualizeRELATED WORDS:
daydream, stargaze; hallucinate; re-create, reflect, relive, reminisce; contemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, ruminate; concoct, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, plan, project; foresee, prefigure