preview

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French preveu, past participle of preveoir (“to foresee”). See pre- + view.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɹiːvjʉː/

Noun

preview (plural previews)

A foretaste of something.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
  It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
(colloquial) An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
Something seen in advance.
(computing) a facility for seeing and checking a document, or changes to it, before saving and/or printing it.

Synonyms

forelook

Translations

foretaste of something

Dutch: voorsmaak (nl) m, voorsmaakje (nl) n, voorproef (nl) f, voorproefje (nl) n
Finnish: esimaku
German: Vorschau (de) f, Vorblick m
Greek: προεπισκόπηση (el) f (proepiskópisi)
Kurdish:
Sorani: پێشبینی‎ (ku) (péshbini)

Polish: przedsmak m
Russian: предвкуше́ние (ru) n (predvkušénije)
Swedish: förhandsvisning (sv), försmak c, glimt (sv) c

advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.

Dutch: voorproefje (nl) n, avant-première (nl) f
German: Vorschau (de) f, Voraufführung (de) f, Preview (de) f or m or n
Greek: πρώτη προβολή f (próti provolí)
Icelandic: stikla f
Japanese: 試写会
Malay: pratonton, previu, treler

Polish: prapremiera (pl) f
Portuguese: antestreia (pt) f
Russian: предвари́тельный просмо́тр m (predvarítelʹnyj prosmótr), предосмо́тр m (predosmótr)
Spanish: preestreno m
Swedish: förhandsvisning (sv) c

something seen in advance

Dutch: voorschouw f
Polish: podgląd (pl) m

Russian: предосмо́тр m (predosmótr)

computing facility

Finnish: esikatselu (fi)
Maori: arokitenga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forhåndsvisning (no) m or f

Portuguese: pré-visualização f
Russian: предварительный просмотр (predvaritelʹnyj prosmotr), предпросмотр (ru) m (predprosmotr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} antaŭmontro

French: ^{(please verify)} avant-première (fr) f, ^{(please verify)} aperçu (fr) m

Verb

preview (third-person singular simple present previews, present participle previewing, simple past and past participle previewed)

To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.

Translations

to show something in advance

French: diffuser (fr)
Indonesian: pratayang (id)

Maori: arokite
Swedish: förhandsvisa (sv)

to see something in advance

Finnish: esikatsella (fi)
French: prévoir (fr), prévisualiser (fr)

Portuguese: pré-visualizar

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