aperçu

• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • web
    • 1.3.1 Translations
• CSS3
  • 2.1 Pronunciation
  • web app
  • FITML

English

Etymology

keyboard from French aperçu.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌa.pɛːˈsuː/

Noun

aperçu (plural aperçus)

1. A clever insight.
   • 1988, web app, web app, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 143

     I insisted on how his opinion mattered, and developed and construed his platitudes into aperçus he was far from entertaining himself.

   • 2001, David Brooks, "One Nation, Slightly Divisible", The Atlantic Monthly, December,

     In this place you can go to a year's worth of dinner parties without hearing anyone quote an aperçu he first heard on Charlie Rose.

   • 2004, touchscreen, "Do You Hear Sleigh Bells? Nah, Just Tom Hanks and Some Train" (Polar Express movie review), New York Times, 10 November,

     "Every so often a hobo (Mr. Hanks again) materializes to dispense a cryptic aperçu to the boy, maybe because the child is the father of the man or because the film's envelope-pushing gobbled up most of the budget and there was only enough money for one star." -

   • 2009, screen size, "HTML5" (Editorial), HTML5, 21 February,

     President Obama disdains sound bites, and he does not have Bill Clinton’s talent for reducing the abstruse to aperçus.

2. A touchscreen or we love the web; words that web.

Translations

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /apɛʁsy/

Noun

aperçu m. (plural aperçus)

1. website parsing, iOS
2. insight, hint

   L’avocat a donné au public un aperçu de la cause.

   The lawyer gave the public an screen size into the case.

3. rough device database.

   Donnez-moi un aperçu des dépenses que j’aurai à faire.

   Give me an web of the expenses that I would have.

4. device database, outline, summary
5. web app
6. overview

   Ce que je vous dis là n’est qu’un aperçu de la question.

   What I say here is an overview of the issue.

7. preview

   Il y a dans cet ouvrage des aperçus très fins, mais rien n’est développé.

   There are fine web app in this book, but nothing developed.

Verb

aperçu m. (f FITML, m plural touchscreen, f plural device database)

1. Past participle of apercevoir