| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Something believed or accepted as true by a person: belief, conviction, feeling, idea, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, sentiment. See OPINION. 2. The act of examining carefully: check, checkup, examination, inspection, perusal, scrutiny, study. Informal : going-over. See INVESTIGATE. 3. What one intends to do or achieve: aim, ambition, design, end, goal, intent, intention, mark, meaning, object, objective, point, purpose, target, why. Idioms: end in view, why and wherefore. See PLANNED, PURPOSE. 4. An act of directing the eyes on an object: contemplation, look, regard, sight. See SEE. 5. That which is or can be seen: lookout, outlook, panorama, perspective, prospect, scene, sight, vista. See SEE. | | VERB: | 1. To look at carefully or critically: check (out), con, examine, go over, inspect, peruse, scrutinize, study, survey, traverse. Informal : case. Idioms: give a going-over. See INVESTIGATE. 2. To direct the eyes on an object: consider, contemplate, eye, look. Idioms: clap (or lay) (or set) one's eyes on. See SEE. 3. To look upon in a particular way: account, consider, deem, esteem, reckon, regard, see. See PERSPECTIVE.
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