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supervise

verb
/ˈsuː.pə.vaɪz/UK/ˈsu.pɚˌvaɪz/CA/ˈsʉː.pə.vɑez/

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin supervisus, from supervidere, from Latin super + videre. Doublet of survey.

  1. derived from super
  2. borrowed from supervisus

Definitions

  1. To oversee or direct a task or organization.

    • Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.

  2. To look over so as to read

    To look over so as to read; to peruse.

    • Let me supervise the canzonet.

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Derived

cosupervise, supervisable, supervisal, supervisive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at supervise. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01supervise02oversee03review04judicial05administration06superintendence07supervision08supervising

A definitional loop anchored at supervise. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at supervise

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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