POV

noun

Etymology

Abbreviation of poverty or clipping of impoverished.

Definitions

  1. Initialism of point of view.

    • By this time we might suspect that he had not been looking at her in the previous shot, and that the bird shot had been from his pov.
    • From his pov, we see Boom Boom Grossman, 60, huge ex-pug Jack Dempsey look-alike with meat-hook hands and meat-pie face.
    • When one of the girls goes down into the basement, she is devoured by the POV accompanied by audio portions of werewolfish sounds.
  2. Initialism of privately owned vehicle.

  3. Initialism of percentage of volume, a type of securities trading algorithm.

  4. + 4 more definitions
    1. Poor

      Poor; impoverished; cheap.

      • Phantazeum is still in existence, on Chapel Street (the more pov end, not the yuppy end) ...
      • Especially considering the most pov Astra is $18,990 and $20k gets you a fully loaded Pulsar...
    2. A poor person

      A poor person; a pauper.

      • Well, mayor, it's based on the cash grab, but instead of money, the cans of food are blown around inside the capsule. The pov inside catches as many as he can to feed his family.
    3. Alternative letter-case form of POV (“point of view”).

    4. Alternative form of POV (“point of view”).

      • Unfortunately from their PoV, the bottom line was Mags’s and hers alone.
      • On the other hand, as Hautamäki points out, “a PoV selects a set of possible worlds, namely, those worlds which have a structure or features presupposed by the PoV. In these worlds, the PoV is satisfied” (Hautamäki 1983b: 226).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for POV. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA