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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An examination or inspection: used binoculars to get a better view.
2. n. A sight; a look.
3. n. A systematic survey; coverage: a view of Romantic poetry.
4. n. An individual and personal perception, judgment, or interpretation; an opinion: In his view, aid to the rebels should be suspended. See Synonyms at opinion.
5. n. Field of vision: The aircraft has disappeared from view.
6. n. A scene or vista: the view from the tower.
7. n. A picture of a landscape: a view of Paris, done in oils.
8. n. A way of showing or seeing something, as from a particular position or angle: a side view of the house.
9. n. Something kept in sight as an aim or intention: "The pitch of the roof had been calculated with a view to the heavy seasonal rains” ( Caroline Alexander).
10. n. Expectation; chance: The measure has no view of success.
11. v. To look at; watch: view an exhibit of etchings.
12. v. To examine or inspect: viewed the house they were thinking of buying.
13. v. To survey or study mentally; consider.
14. v. To think of in a particular way; regard: doesn't view herself as a success; viewed their efforts unfavorably. See Synonyms at see¹.
15. idiom. in view of Taking into account; in consideration of.
16. idiom. on view Placed so as to be seen; exhibited.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of viewing, seeing, or beholding; examination by the eye; survey; inspection; look; sight.
2. n. The act of perceiving by the mind; mental survey; intellectual inspection or examination; observation; consideration.
3. n. Power of seeing or perception, either physical or mental; range of vision; reach of sight; extent of prospect.
4. n. That which is viewed, seen, or beheld; something which is looked upon; sight or spectacle presented to the eye or to the mind; scene; prospect.
5. n. A scene as represented by painting, drawing, or photography; a picture or sketch, especially a landscape.
6. n. Manner or mode of looking at things; manner of regarding subjects on which various opinions may be held; judgment; opinion; conception; notion; way of thinking; theory.
7. n. Something looked toward or forming the subject of consideration; intention; design; purpose; aim.
8. n. Appearance; show; aspect.
9. n. In law, an inspection by the jury of property or a place the appearance or condition of which is involved in the case, or useful to enable the jury to understand the testimony, as of a place where a crime has been committed.
10. n. Specifically, inspection of a dead body; an autopsy.
11. n. The footing of a beast.
12. n. In Anglo-Saxon law, the office of a sheriff in seeing all the frank-pledges of a hundred, and that all youths above fourteen belonged to some tithing: a function of the court-leet.
13. n. Synonyms 4 and View, Prospect, Scene, Landscape. View is the most general of these words; prospect most suggests the idea that the beholder is at a place somewhat elevated, so as to be able to see far; scene most suggests the idea of resemblance to a picture; landscape most suggests the idea of diversity in unity.
14. To see; look on; behold.
15. To examine with the eye; look on with attention, or for the purpose of examining; survey; explore; peruse.
16. To survey intellectually; examine with the mental eye; consider; regard.
17. Synonyms To witness.
18. To scan.
19. To contemplate.
20. To look; take a view.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of seeing or looking at something.
2. n. The range of vision.
3. n. Something to look at, such as a scenery.
4. n. A picture.
5. n. A mental image.
6. n. A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
7. n. A point of view.
8. n. An intention or prospect.
9. n. computing, databases A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
10. n. computing, programming The part of a computer program which is visible to the user, the part the user interacts with; a user interface to the underlying logic of the program.
11. n. A wake
12. v. transitive To look at.
13. v. transitive To show.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.
2. n. Mental survey; intellectual perception or examination.
3. n. Power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect.
4. n. That which is seen or beheld; sight presented to the natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect.
5. n. The pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, either drawn or painted.
6. n. Mode of looking at anything; manner of apprehension; conception; opinion; judgment.
7. n. That which is looked towards, or kept in sight, as object, aim, intention, purpose, design.
8. n. obsolete Appearance; show; aspect.
9. v. To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore.
10. v. To survey or examine mentally; to consider.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
2. v. see or watch
3. v. deem to be
4. n. graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept
5. n. the visual percept of a region
6. n. the act of looking or seeing or observing
7. v. look at carefully; study mentally
8. n. the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
9. n. purpose; the phrase `with a view to' means `with the intention of' or `for the purpose of'
10. n. outward appearance
11. n. the range of the eye
12. n. a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
13. n. a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof