单词 | viewer |
释义 | viewern. 1. a. A person appointed or employed to inspect or examine something (now historical and rare); spec. †(a) a person appointed by a court to inspect a property, area of land, etc. (obsolete); †(b) an inspector of goods supplied by contract; occasionally also in extended use. (obsolete) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun] > formal or official > person conducting viewer1415 searcher1432 vesiar?a1500 vesiater1517 looker1552 vissier1566 inspector1602 sighter1708 roundsman1837 snooper1928 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [noun] > a lawsuit > other types of action > examining thing in real action > one sent by court for viewer1415 1415 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 233 Wee [masons and carpenters]..beyng vewers for the tyme of the seid Cite, haue to these vewes afore written putte our sealles. 1479–81 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 111 Item, payd to the vywers for to ouerse the howse þat dyghton dwellith in. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ciii For the capitaine of the horsemen was appointed sir Edward Gyldford, by whom the currers and vewers of the countrey were appointed. 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 359 For..if I will be a Iudge of your goods, for the same you wil be a vewer of my life. 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 252 The Judg commands the Sheriffe; That at a day assigned, he cause a view to be taken by such Viewers or Surveyers, as may certifie the Court. 1664 Keymer's Observ. Dutch Fishing 7 One [herring] Busse..imployeth..Viewers, Packers, Tellers, Dressers, Couchers to make the Herrings lawfull Merchandizes. 1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. ii. vii. 819 Our Regarders or Viewers, shall go through the Forests to make a View or Regard. 1714 in J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. (1875) 134 One-half of said fence to be accounted as Public Fence, and the whole to be under the viewers for the security of the Great Meadow. 1766 D. Barrington Observ. Statutes 33 The reasonable price is to be settled by such viewers or surveyors. 1834 in J. G. Nicolay & J. Hay A. Lincoln (1890) I. vi. 119 To appoint viewers to view and locate a road from Musick's ferry on Salt Creek. 1863 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 323 The very viewers who first examine the stores, and on the nature of whose report so much depends. 1890 A. E. Gibbs Corporation Rec. St. Albans 11 The Viewers of the Market of the Cross had to see that all food offered for sale there was wholesome... Eight Viewers were to be chosen at the second monthly court held by each Mayor to search out annoyances, encroachments, &c, and report to the Court. 1918 Amer. Machinist 5 Sept. 420/1 Payment for piecework is made only on the certificate of an examiner or a viewer belonging to the inspection department. 1976 R. A. Gross Minutemen & their World i. 22 A surveyor of highways, viewer of fences, and sometime member of important ad hoc committees. b. A superintendent or manager of a coal mine. Cf. coal-viewer n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > supervisor banksman1486 overman1606 oversman1668 viewer1708 keeker1863 underlooker1871 underviewer?1881 veerer1883 1708 J. C. Compl. Collier 11 in T. Nourse Mistery of Husbandry Discover'd (ed. 3) Now I must leave you to your Viewer, or Head Under-over Man, who is to take Charge of a Regular Working of the Colliery. 1761 Brit. Mag. 2 668 Mr. Curry, a viewer, and three others were burnt at Hartley Colliery, near Newcastle upon Tyne, by an explosion of foul air. 1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 8 The viewers or superintendents of collieries. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 964 Coal viewers or engineers regard the dislocations now described as being subject in one respect to a general law. 1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining xiv. 175 Many of the most experienced colliery viewers..hold to the opinion that they substitute one danger for another. 1916 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers 51 403 He began to serve his apprenticeship in the year 1856 at the Hetton Collieries, under the late John Wales, who was at that time viewer. 2014 M. C. Jacob First Knowl. Econ. ii. 60 A viewer could earn £150 per annum.., ten times what the average collier could earn in a year. 2. A person who sees, beholds, or catches sight of something; a casual observer, a spectator. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > beholder or spectator showerOE beholderc1374 lookera1382 espiouressc1430 considererc1449 overseerc1450 regarder1525 surveyor1558 viewer1565 spectatora1586 regardant1590 aspector1603 supervisor1610 eyer1611 spectatrix1611 spectatress1632 speculator1647 contemplator1658 attender1665 espier1860 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Speculator,..a beholder: a viewer. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 143 Our prouince..hath..many viewers of a yong Gentleman right nobly disposed. 1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in Queen Elizabeth's Englishings (1899) 56 Not thy nature but weaknes of vewars sight makes the seeme fayre. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Custome of Countrey iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bb2 Can it be possible this frame should suffer, And built on slight affections, fright the vewer? 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila iii. xxix. 41 Her Eyes amaze the Viewers, and inspire To Hearts a warm, yet chast Desire. 1794 J. Fox Gen. View Agric. Monmouth 43 A natural path..would bring the viewer down to the lower corner of the park. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough xvii. 226 'Tis Summer now; all Objects gay and new, Smiling alike the Viewer and the View. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways III. xi. 203 Teaching gloom to rouse a songful nest in the bosom of the viewer. 1979 Psychol. Operations (U.S. Dept. Army) xviii. 18 Viewers tend to associate the poster with the area of placement. 2007 W. Treat et al. Weird Arizona 43/2 All these phenomena would be virtually imperceptible to the chance viewer. 3. A person who looks at something with care or attention; a person who closely observes or scrutinizes something; a person who sets out to view something. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > observer advisora1325 viewer1572 notary1589 observator1642 remarkera1684 noticer1880 observer1925 eyeball1976 1572 J. Jones Bathes of Bathes Ayde i. f. 8v The Phisicyon is a viewer, and sercher out of Nature. 1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 692 You are such a narrowe vewer of such idle pictures. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xlvii. 13 The astrologers, the starre-gazers [margin] viewers of the heauens. 1729 G. Adams tr. Sophocles Oedipus Coloneus i. iii, in tr. Sophocles Trag. II. 87 Be silent, for hither come some ancient Men as Viewers of your Seat. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xv. 458 [The bride's outfit] was exhibited to select companies of female viewers. 1892 Daily News 25 May 6/8 There will probably be amongst viewers of the collection more than one..who will covet ‘La Princesse du Pays de Porcelaine’. 1922 Amer. School Board Jrnl. Mar. 45/1 Nine-tenths of the viewers of art work know nothing whatever of the value of drawing. 1959 C. M. Wilson Bodacious Ozarks xx. 245 The perceptive viewer of the region will doubt that any great part of it is doomed to be a regional slum. 2013 New Yorker 23 Sept. 81/2 Chris wanted to de-commodify painting, to slow the viewer down and make it an experience. 4. A person who watches film, television programmes, video clips, etc. Cf. televiewer n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > audience > [noun] > television viewer viewer1914 looker-in1927 looker1928 watcher-in1928 televiewer1930 1914 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 12 Aug. 9/1 Just which narrative is most veracious..it will be the pleasure of the viewer to discover. 1922 Fourth Estate 15 July 21/1 The motion picture..creates and purveys a mental atmosphere which is absorbed by the viewer without conscious mental effort. 1935 Times 22 Mar. 12/3 As long as the viewer gets his programme of sight and sound it does not matter how. 1971 ‘G. Charles’ Destiny Waltz i. 11 ‘Yes, I'm a viewer all right,’ said Jimmy. ‘I've no false snobbery about TV.’ 1983 N. R. Clifton Figure in Film v. 81 The viewer's response is complete bafflement, or an assumption that a shot has strayed by mistake from another film. 1991 C. Tichi Electronic Hearth v. 106 The tableau of the mesmerized viewer has persisted throughout the TV era. 2014 Wall St. Jrnl. 3 May (Eastern ed.) b4 Media companies seeking to reach YouTube's young viewers, who watch less and less television. 5. An optical device used for viewing images recorded on a particular medium, esp. those recorded on microfilm.Frequently with distinguishing word specifying the format or medium. slide viewer, microfilm viewer, etc.: see first element. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for observing > [noun] > for viewing photographs photoscope1875 graphoscope1879 photochromoscope1881 viewer1934 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > viewing of photographs > [noun] > equipment for viewing graphoscope1879 zoogyroscope1880 zoopraxinoscope1889 heliochromoscope1892 photochromoscope1893 kromskop1897 viewer1934 slide viewer1960 1861 J. Wylde Magic of Sci. 235 We are indebted to Sir David Brewster and Professor Wheatstone for the optical instrument called the stereoscope, or as we may say, the ‘solid-viewer’.] 1934 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 22 June 367/1 Processes in which each member of the audience must be provided with some kind of viewer for looking at the projection screen have more or less positively been put on one side as commercially useless. 1940 A. L. M. Sowerby Wall's Dict. Photogr. (ed. 15) 19 The principle involved is exactly that of the ‘viewers’ now sold for looking at prints or small transparencies. 1958 Woman's Own 8 Oct. 58/3 The X-ray on the viewer. 1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha ii. 67 I wondered what Virgil would learn from the microfilm. He had taken it to the university library where he could use the viewers. 2004 P. Hall Puzzle to die on xvii. 102 Jimmy pointed to a desk where a viewer was threaded up with microfilm. Derivatives ˈviewership n. †(a) the position or office of a viewer in a coal mine (obsolete); (b) the viewers of a television programme, network, etc., collectively; the number of such viewers. ΚΠ 1872 Mines: Rep. Inspectors 1871 53 in Parl. Papers (C. 653) XVI. 229 A change..had taken place in the chief viewership about two years previously. 1913 Brit. Clay-worker Aug. 145/2 He subsequently accepted the viewership for two English companies of six collieries. 1952 Gaz. & Bull. (Williamsport, Pa.) 16 Feb. 4/1 Red Skelton now is breathing close to the neck of Milton Berle for top ranking in TV viewership. 1957 Economist 24 Aug. 637/2 More reliable estimates of ‘viewership’. 1985 Billboard 16 Mar. 6/4 The network saw its viewership jump to three million. 2013 Vanity Fair Aug. 84/2 Scandal..has engendered a loyal viewership that eagerly tunes in the moment a new episode airs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1415 |
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