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I always said, all I ever wanna see is my Blue-and-White boys holding up that cup.

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  1. transitive verb To perceive with the eye.
  2. transitive verb To apprehend as if with the eye.
  3. transitive verb To detect by means analogous to use of the eye: an electronic surveillance camera that saw the activity in the embassy yard.
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  • Lowering her voice, keeping it friendly, she said “How do you feel she's doing She seems to be doing all right Have you talked about it with her much That counselor you're making her see is the one she talks to,” Lexi's mother said, and this time the resentment was unmistakable. —  FSF,October2007
  • I always said, all I ever wanna see is my Blue-and-White boys holding up that cup. —  Aussie-Nintendo.com Forums
  • What I'd really wanna see is a Nokia N96 with a touchscreen. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • If you see the Greek words used there, Jesus was referring to Himself. —  A Little Leaven
  • Adopting something similar here in Montana would definitely be a step (er, pedal stroke) in the right direction, but what I'd much rather see is the legalization of riding two abreast. —  All Today's News - Sightline Daily
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  1. Middle English sen, from Old English sēon; see sekw-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old French se, from Vulgar Latin *sedem, from Latin sēdēs, seat; see sed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English seen, sen, without infinitive termination see, se (preterit saw, sough, sawgh, sauh, sawh, say, saygh, sey, sei, seigh, seih, seyh, seiʒ, sigh, sy, etc., past participle sein, seyn, sewen, seʒen, seien, sen, seie, etc.), from Anglo-Saxon seón, sión (preterit seah, plural sāwon, sǣgon, past participle gesegen, gesewen) = Old Saxon sehan, sēan = OFries. sīa = Middle Dutch sien, Dutch zien = Middle Low German sēn, Low German seen = Old High German sehan, Middle High German sehen, German sehen = Icelandic sjā = Swedish Danish se = Gothic (Moesogothic) saihwan. (preterit sahw, plural sēhwum, past participle saihwans), see, Teutonic √ sehw (later segw, sew), see; accordant in form, and prob. identical in origin, with L. sequi = Greek ἔπεσθαι, follow, = Lithuanian sehti, follow (√ seq, follow): see sequent, sue, etc. The transfer of sense is not certain; prob. ‘follow with the eyes.’
  2. from see, v.
  3. Early modern English also sea; from Middle English see, se, from Old French se, sed, siet = Spanish sede, see, = Portuguese sede, se = Italian sede, a seat, see. from Latin sedes, a seat, from sedere = English sit: see sit. Cf. seat.
 

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