vid-, video-, vis-, -vision, -visional, -visionally, visuo-, vu-

1. To examine or to look at comprehensively.
2. To inspect carefully; to scrutinize: The police were surveying the people who were getting off the train to see if they could see the criminal that they were looking for.
3. To determine the boundaries, area, or elevations of (land or structures on the earth's surface) by means of measuring angles and distances, using the techniques of geometry and trigonometry.
4. Etymology: from Old French surveeir; which came from Middle Latin supervidere, "to oversee"; from Latin super-, "over" + videre, "to see, to look".

The measurement of dimensional relationships, as of horizontal distances, elevations, directions, and angles, on the earth's surface especially for use in locating property boundaries, construction layout, and mapmaking.

1. An engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures.
2. Someone who conducts a statistical survey.
3. Someone whose occupation is taking accurate measurements of land areas in order to determine boundaries, elevations, and dimensions.

A telephone that is capable of producing images.

1. To view or to see with a television receiver.
2. A process that produces stereoscopic motion pictures for seeing or watching.

1. Someone who views with a television receiver.
2. A device that provides for the observation or watching of video presentations by means of a television receiver.

1. Broadcasting or being broadcast by television.
2. Transmitting a program, signal, etc. by television

1. An electronic device for receiving and reproducing the images and sounds of a combined audio and video signal: When televisions were first in existence, the screens tended to be  very small, often measuring diagonally, corner to corner, only 9 inches (about 23 cm); however, now they are much larger and thinner.
2. A system of capturing images and sounds, broadcasting them via a combined electronic audio and video signal, and reproducing them to be viewed and listened to by people: The media industry, which includes television, is very advanced in terms of technology and is greatly admired by corporations that are intent on sending programs and messages to large audiences.
3. Etymology: about sending images by radio transmission, formed in English or borrowed from French télévision, from Greek tele-, "far off, afar, at or to a distance" + Latin vision, "act of seeing, sight, thing seen" from videre, "to see".

A reference to the system or process of producing a series of transient visible images on a distant screen, usually with an accompanying sound signal.

Electrical signals, converted from optical images by a camera tube, are transmitted by UHF or VHF radio waves or by cable and reconverted into optical images by means of a television tube inside a television set.

A descriptive term referring to the process of broadcasting still or moving images by means of radiowaves to receivers which project a view of the image on a picture tube for those who are watching and listening to the presentations.

An eye-witness is preferred to others.

1. Not pleasant, not easy, or not likely to be wished for: Hank had the unenviable task of breaking the bad news about the accident to his friend's family.
2. Hard to deal with, especially causing pain or embarrassment: Wayne's brother had the unenviable challenge to significantly reduce his over-weight condition.
3. Not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or to comprehend and to endure: The university students in the computer class were given a difficult and an unenviable task to perform for the professor.
4. Etymology: envy comes from Old French envie "envy, jealousy, rivalry", from Latin invidia, "envy, jealousy", from invidus, "envious", from invidere, "envy"; earlier it meant "look at (with malice), cast an evil eye upon", from in- "on, upon" + videre, "to see".

Unenviable is a combination of un-, "not" + enviable, "a reference to a resentful or unhappy feeling of wanting somebody else's success, good fortune, qualities, or possessions".

1. Not supplied, provided, furnished, or equipped with money or the means to live adequately.
2. Not suitably prepared; unprepared.

A descriptive reference to not being supplied, furnished, equipped, prepared, or ready.

1. A mounted soldier positioned ahead of a force of soldiers to serve as a scout.
2. A small scouting boat used to observe and to report on an opposing naval force.
2. Etymology: "a mounted sentinel placed in advance of an outpost", from French and from Italian vedetta, influenced by Latin vedere, "to see".