Definition of sees

"sees" in the noun sense

1. see

the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located

"sees" in the verb sense

1. see

perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

"You have to be a good observer to see all the details"

"Can you see the bird in that tree?"

"He is blind

2. understand, realize, realise, see

perceive (an idea or situation) mentally

"Now I see!"

"I just can't see your point"

"Does she realize how important this decision is?"

"I don't understand the idea"

3. witness, find, see

perceive or be contemporaneous with

"We found Republicans winning the offices"

"You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"

"The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"

"I want to see results"

4. visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image

imagine conceive of see in one's mind

"I can't see him on horseback!"

"I can see what will happen"

"I can see a risk in this strategy"

5. see, consider, reckon, view, regard

deem to be

"She views this quite differently from me"

"I consider her to be shallow"

"I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"

6. learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see

get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

"I learned that she has two grown-up children"

"I see that you have been promoted"

7. watch, view, see, catch, take in

see or watch

"view a show on television"

"This program will be seen all over the world"

"view an exhibition"

"Catch a show on Broadway"

"see a movie"

8. meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see

come together

"I'll probably see you at the meeting"

"How nice to see you again!"

9. determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn

find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

"I want to see whether she speaks French"

"See whether it works"

"find out if he speaks Russian"

"Check whether the train leaves on time"

10. see, check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assure

be careful or certain to do something make certain of something

"He verified that the valves were closed"

"See that the curtains are closed"

"control the quality of the product"

11. see

go to see for professional or business reasons

"You should see a lawyer"

"We had to see a psychiatrist"

12. see

go to see for a social visit

"I went to see my friend Mary the other day"

13. visit, see

go to see a place, as for entertainment

"We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning"

14. attend, take care, look, see

take charge of or deal with

"Could you see about lunch?"

"I must attend to this matter"

"She took care of this business"

15. see

receive as a specified guest

"the doctor will see you now"

"The minister doesn't see anybody before noon"

16. go steady, go out, date, see

date regularly have a steady relationship with

"Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"

"He is dating his former wife again!"

17. see

see and understand, have a good eye

"The artist must first learn to see"

18. see

deliberate or decide

"See whether you can come tomorrow"

"let's see

19. see

observe as if with an eye

"The camera saw the burglary and recorded it"

20. examine, see

observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect

"The customs agent examined the baggage"

"I must see your passport before you can enter the country"

21. experience, see, go through

undergo or live through a difficult experience

"We had many trials to go through"

"he saw action in Viet Nam"

22. see, escort

accompany or escort

"I'll see you to the door"

23. see

match or meet

"I saw the bet of one of my fellow players"

24. interpret, construe, see

make sense of assign a meaning to

"What message do you see in this letter?"

"How do you interpret his behavior?"

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Quotations for sees

Love sees no faults. [ Proverb ]

Faith sees by the ears. [ Proverb ]

The cat sees not every mouse. [ Proverb ]

A bad dog never sees the wolf. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Not a single shaft can hit
Till the God of love sees fit. [ Ryland ]

The cat sees not the mouse ever. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love that asketh love again
Finds the barter naught but pain;
Love that giveth in full store
Aye receives as much, and more.
Love exacting nothing back
Never knoweth any lack;
Love compelling Love to pay,
Sees him bankrupt every day. [ Dinah Muloch Craik ]

He that lives well sees afar off. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Eyes so transparent,
That through them one sees the soul. [ Theophile Gautier ]

The champion true
Loves victory more when, dim in view,
He sees her glories gild afar
The dusky edge of stubborn war,
Than if th' untrodden bloodless field
The harvest of her laurels yield. [ Keble ]

The heart sees farther than the head. [ Proverb ]

Fancy with prophetic glance
Sees the teeming months advance;
The field, the forest, green and gay;
The dappled slope, the tedded hay;
Sees the reddening orchard blow.
The harvest wave, the vintage flow. [ Warton ]

Thy plain and open nature sees mankind
But in appearance, not what they are. [ Froude ]

The eye sees not itself
But by reflection, by some other things. [ William Shakespeare ]

What the eye sees not the heart rues not. [ Proverb ]

An hungry kite sees a dead horse afar off. [ Proverb ]

Happy the man who sees a God employed
In all the good and ill that chequer life! [ Cowper ]

Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees!
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play! [ Whittier ]

Each one sees what he carries in his heart. [ Goethe ]

The soul,
Though made in time, survives for aye;
And, though it hath beginning, sees no end. [ Sir J. Davies ]

What the eye sees need not to be guessed at. [ Proverb ]

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [ Bovee ]

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind. [ Pope ]

The eye sees what it brings the power to see. [ Carlyle ]

The soul shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward
To the world's open view. [ John Dryden ]

Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind;
His soul proud science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk or milky way;
Yet simple nature to his hope has given,
Behind the cloud-topt hills, a humbler heaven. [ Pope ]

Love's of a strangely open simple kind,
And thinks none sees it 'cause itself is blind. [ Cowley ]

Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. [ Hare ]

Happy is the man who sees his faults in his youth. [ Proverb ]

The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself. [ Proverb ]

He that comes after sees with more eyes than his own. [ Proverb ]

You hide yourself in a net and think nobody sees you. [ Proverb ]

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit. [ Dryden ]

One eye of the master's sees more than ten of the servant's. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [ Cicero ]

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain. [ Aubrey de Vere ]

As soon as the soul sees any object, it stops before that object. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A well-bred dog goes out when he sees them preparing to kick him out. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Reason can discover things only near, - sees nothing that's above her. [ Quarles ]

Seeing is believing (he who sees with the eye believes with the heart). [ Italian Proverb ]

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The humor of youth, which ever thinks that good whose goodness it sees not. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

In love, the husband sees but the statue: the soul is shown only to the lover. [ Crebillon ]

When the eye sees what it never saw, the heart will think what it never thought. [ Proverb ]

Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life. [ Cowper ]

A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. [ Coleridge ]

Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss. [ Dryden ]

As a wild maiden, with love-drinking eyes, sees in sweet dreams a beaming youth of glory. [ Alexander Smith ]

A woman is a well-served table, that one sees with different eyes before and after the meal.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires. [ Chesterfield ]

The heroic heart, the seeing eye, of the first times, still feels and sees in us of the latest. [ Carlyle ]

The less one sees and knows men, the higher one esteems them; for experience teaches their real value. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Man is man by virtue of willing, not by virtue of knowing and understanding; and as he is, so he sees. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. [ Bovee ]

The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness. [ Metastasio ]

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. [ T. Parker ]

The little (achieved) is soon forgotten by him who looks before him and sees how much still remains to be done. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul. [ Cicero ]

A sentimentalist is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of a single thing. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

A man's appearance falls within the censure of every one that sees him; his parts and learning very few are judges of. [ Steele ]

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees a camel. [ George Eliot ]

Love sees what no eye sees; hears what no ear hears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object. [ Lavater ]

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, - of dwarfs giants, suspicions truths. [ Cervantes ]

Men are so constituted that everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. [ Goethe ]

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune. [ Bruyere ]

Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One who sees the end from the beginning; He shall yet unravel all. [ Alexander Smith ]

The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Not in nature, but in man is all the beauty and the worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for its pride. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

I'm proof against that word "failure." I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. [ George Eliot ]

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy. [ Cicero ]

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which selfrighteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself. [ J. G. Holland ]

Man loves before he sees; his heart is open before his eyes; love must irradiate his world for him before he well knows he is in it, what it is made of, and what to make of it. [ Ed ]

Glow-worms are the image of women: when they are in the dark, one is struck with their brilliancy; as soon as they appear in the broad light of the world, one sees them in their true colors, with all their defects. [ Mme. Necker ]

Commonsense is science exactly so far as it fulfils the ideal of commonsense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. [ Huxley ]

The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him. [ T. W. Higginson ]

Imaginary evils soon become real ones, by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall, or the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied. [ Swift ]

Nature, when she amused herself by giving stiff manners to old maids, put virtue in a very bad light. A woman must have been a mother to preserve under the chilling influences of time that grace of manner and sweetness of temper, which prompt us to say, One sees that love has dwelt there. [ Lemontey ]

Infinity is the retirement in which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and eternity the skeptic sees an abyss in which all is lost. I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support. Here, holding by the pillars of heaven, I exist - I stand fast. [ Miller ]

It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them, - for every one sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, and may live or dress as they please. [ Colton ]

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art: but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. [ Montaigne ]

It is good for any man to be alone with nature and himself, or with a friend who knows when silence is more sociable than talk, In the wilderness alone, there where nature worships God. It is well to be in places where man is little and God is great, where what he sees all around him has the same look as it had a thousand years ago, and will have the same, in all likelihood, when he has been a thousand years in his grave. It abates and rectifies a man, if he is worth the process. [ Sydney Smith ]

I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. You don't have to tell me, I said. I'm off the team, aren't I? Well, said Coach, you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times. It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

sees in Scrabble®

The word sees is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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sees in Words With Friends™

The word sees is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 4

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Word Growth involving sees

Shorter words in sees

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Longer words containing sees

addressees

advisees

devisees

endorsees

foresees

franchisees nonfranchisees

fricassees

fusees

indorsees

lessees lesseeship lesseeships

lessees sublessees

licensees sublicensees

outsees

oversees

pharisees

releasees

seesaw seesawed

seesaw seesawing

seesaw seesaws

sightsees

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