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PREVIEW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does preview mean?
• PREVIEW (noun)
The noun PREVIEW has 2 senses:
1. an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future
2. a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public
Familiarity information: PREVIEW used as a noun is rare.
• PREVIEW (verb)
The verb PREVIEW has 1 sense:
1. watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public
Familiarity information: PREVIEW used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("preview" is a kind of...):
ad; advert; advertisement; advertising; advertizement; advertizing (a public promotion of some product or service)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("preview" is a kind of...):
screening; showing; viewing (the display of a motion picture)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "preview"):
sneak preview (a preview to test audience reactions)
Derivation:
preview (watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it previews Past simple: previewed
Past participle: previewed
-ing form: previewing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "preview" is one way to...):
catch; see; take in; view; watch (see or watch)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue preview the movie
Derivation:
preview (a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public)
Context examples
The Aquarians that will feel this year’s short preview the most will be those born January 21 to January 22.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Although Triton is a moon of a planet and Pluto is a dwarf planet, Triton serves as a preview of sorts for the upcoming Pluto encounter.
(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)
Many researchers feel the 1989 Neptune flyby — Voyager's final planetary encounter — might have offered a preview of what's to come next summer.
(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)
But the movie, which uses a sequence of 36 interpolated images each separated by 20 minutes, certainly provides a truly stunning 360-degree preview of the overall complex shape of the comet.
(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)
Just released first images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal unprecedented detail of the sun’s surface and preview the world-class products to come from this preeminent 4-meter solar telescope.
(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)
This will be a preview of what is to come in 2021, 2022, and in early 2023.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
There were hints of that in last week's images and in the unscheduled previews that were seen a few days ago, and in that short time it has become clear that this is no ordinary comet.
(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)
From March 21 to July 1, this taskmaster planet will leave your career sector and move into your eleventh house, where Saturn will give you a preview of the coming years spanning December 16, 2020, to March 7, 2023.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Saturn in Aquarius, starting this month from March 21 until July 1, will give you a preview of what’s to come when Saturn finally settles permanently into this sign from December 16, 2020, until March 7, 2023.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
However, you will get a respite from Saturn from March 20 to July 1, 2020, when Saturn moves into Aquarius to give us all a preview of what is to come in 2021 to March 2023.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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