Look up: WITNESS

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   witness
   [Verb] To see something or be present when something happens.
   Example: The boy witnessed the accident on his way to school.
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   witness
   [n] - (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law 2. [n] - (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature 3. [n] - someone who sees an event and reports what happened 4. [n] - testimony by word or deed to your religious faith 5. [v] - perceive or be contemporaneous with 6. [v] - be a witness to
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   Witness
   a person other than the testator who signs the will to authenticate the testator`s signature.
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   Witness
   a person who gives evidence
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   witness
   In law, a person who was present at some event (such as an accident, a crime, or the signing of a document) or has relevant special knowledge (such as a medical expert) and can be called on to give...
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   witness
   during quality control Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)
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   Witness
   A person who gives evidence in Court, called to give evidence because they witnesses an event (see also Expert witness)
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   Witness
   A person who signs a deed or Will to confirm that it has been executed in his presence. Someone who testifies in proceedings.
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   Witness
   Wit'ness noun [ Anglo-Saxon witness , ge witnes , from witan to know. √133. See Wit , intransitive verb ] 1. Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony. « May we with . . . the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?» Shak. « If I bear witness of myself, my w ...
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    Witness
    Wit'ness transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Witnessed ; present participle & verbal noun Witnessing .] 1. To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of. « This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of moder ...
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    Witness
    Wit'ness intransitive verb To bear testimony; to give evidence; to testify. Chaucer. « The men of Belial witnessed against him.» 1 Kings xxi. 13. « The witnessing of the truth was then so generally attended with this event [ martyrdom] that martyrdom now signifies not only to witness , but to witness to death.» South.
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    witness
    noun testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
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    witnesser noun someone who sees an event and reports what happened
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    attestor noun (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
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    Witness
    • (v. i.) One who testifies in a cause, or gives evidence before a judicial tribunal; as, the witness in court agreed in all essential facts. • (v. t.) To see or know by personal presence; to have direct cognizance of. • (v. i.) That which furnishes evidence or proof. • (v. t.) To see the execution of, as an instrument, and subs...
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    witness
    (from the article `evidence`) ...law has taken a different course. Parties cannot be witnesses, and evidence by experts is subject to special procedural rules. Consequently, there ... Less frequent but perhaps more significant are the uses of the doctor as a witness. When doctors appear in court merely to relate facts that they ... ....
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    Witness
    (from the article `Chambers, Whittaker`) Chambers`s autobiography, Witness, was published in 1952. In 1964 selections from his diaries and letters, edited by Duncan Norton-Taylor, were ...
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    Witness
    (from the article `1985: Other Winners`) Original Screenplay: Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, Pamela Wallace for WitnessAdapted Screenplay: Kurt Luedtke for Out of AfricaCinematography: ...
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    witness
    
    1. someone who sees an event and reports what happened
    2. a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
    3. testimony by word or deed to your religious faith
    4. (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature
    5. (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
    
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    witness
    witness: see evidence.
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