English

Noun

preview ‎(plural previews)

1. 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; […].

2. (colloquial) An advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
3. Something seen in advance.
4. (computing) a facility for seeing and checking a document, or changes to it, before saving and/or printing it.

Synonyms

• forelook

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Verb

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

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

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