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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
Laura Wade

Meaning of "see about" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SEE ABOUT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEE ABOUT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
See about is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES SEE ABOUT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of see about in the English dictionary

The definition of see about in the dictionary is to take care of; look after. Other definition of see about is to investigate; enquire into.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEE ABOUT

see
see daylight
see eye to eye
see fit
see into
see no further than one´s nose
see of
see off
see one´s way
see out
see over
see red
see someone hanged first
see someone right
see stars
see the back of
see the light
see the wood for the trees
see through
see through rose-coloured glasses

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEE ABOUT

about
bout
bring about
come about
get about
go about
hang about
just about
kick about
make no bones about
marabout
nothing to write home about
out and about
right about
roundabout
set about
talk about
thereabout
time about
walkabout
what about

Synonyms and antonyms of see about in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «see about» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEE ABOUT

Find out the translation of see about to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of see about from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «see about» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

看到有关
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ver sobre
570 millions of speakers

English

see about
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

के बारे में देखते हैं
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رؤية حول
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

посмотрим
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ver sobre
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সম্পর্কে দেখতে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

voir sur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lihat tentang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

siehe etwa
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

約を参照してください。
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

에 대한 참조
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ndeleng babagan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xem về
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பார்க்கவும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

याबद्दल पहा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hakkında bkz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

occuparsi di
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zobacz temat
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

подивимося
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vezi despre
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δείτε σχετικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sien oor
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

se om
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

se om
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of see about

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEE ABOUT»

The term «see about» is quite widely used and occupies the 41.607 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEE ABOUT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «see about» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «see about» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about see about

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3 QUOTES WITH «SEE ABOUT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word see about.
1
Gabrielle Reece
On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.
2
Laura Wade
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
3
Douglas Wood
Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEE ABOUT»

Discover the use of see about in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to see about and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Last Chance to See
Hilarious and poignant--as only Douglas Adams can be--LAST CHANCE TO SEE is an entertaining and arresting odyssey through the Earth's magnificent wildlife galaxy. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine, 2011
2
Thesaurus of Claim Construction
025 See, less than 0.25 millimeters in diameter 1 See, less than about 1 liter/ minute 10 See, about 1.0 pL ofthe blood sample average particle size of from about 2 to about 10 microns quantity between 10-6 and 10-4 and umol/mm3 10% See, ...
Robert C. Kahrl, Stuart B. Soffer, Stuart Soffer, 2010
3
McNeill's Code. (1908 Edition)
To see (See also ' Not to see Wish(es) to see So as to see By this you ( — See it through See about (See below " To see about.") See after See clause See number See page See my (our) (- See my (our) (- See your cable of See your letter of ...
Bedford McNeill, 1908
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Harrap's essential English Dictionary
Who would be willing to see about the tickets? 2 If you say 'We'll see about that' in reference to something that someone intends to do, you mean that you'll do your best to stop them: 'She refuses to pay. ' ' We'll soon see about that. ' see off 1 ...
‎1996
5
I See You Everywhere
He has also canceled my American Express. .~\s ifl were squandering an imperial nest egg. l tolerate Beau's meddling because he does it from afar. But yours: we'll have to see about yours. You are the slippery slope toward one of those, ...
Julia Glass, 2008
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See Yourself As God Sees You
The first pane is called the open self, representing what you and everyone else can see about you. These are the obvious things: name, appearance, general history, surface information, anything you make public about yourself. The second ...
Josh McDowell, 1999
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
See also see in phrases below. 'see-through adj transparent; allowing a person's body etc to be seen through it: a see-through blouse/night-dress; Her blouse was completely see- through. (Ill) be 'seeing you (in/) goodbye, 'see about vt jus to ...
8
What We Know About CSCL: And Implementing It In Higher Education
I see” about the list artefact's affordance (see also Chapter 1 by Kirschner, Martens, & Strijbos, this volume, for more on affordances). The cycle ofknowledge building and meaning making 6.3 Building collaborative knowing is a cyclical process ...
Jan-Willem Strijbos, Paul A. Kirschner, Rob L. Martens, 2004
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Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Russian with CD-ROM
See also be glad/happy, etc to see the back2 of sb/sth, see eye1 to eye (with sb), see red2 PHRASAL VERBS see about sth/doing sth to deal with something, or arrange for something to be done nosafioTuTBcn o ueM-nufio You should see ...
‎2011
10
Eyes to See: A Jeremiah Hunt Supernatual Thriller
We're going to go into the living room to talk, and I'd rather you didn't trip and break your neck on the way. After that, if I believe you, we'll see about that help.” I didn't want to. What I wanted to do was get the hell out of there; I didn't like feeling  ...
Joseph Nassise, 2012

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