transcription, транскрипция: [ wɪtnəs ]
( witnesses, witnessing, witnessed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A witness to an event such as an accident or crime is a person who saw it.
Witnesses to the crash say they saw an explosion just before the disaster...
No witnesses have come forward.
N-COUNT : oft N to n
2.
If you witness something, you see it happen.
Anyone who witnessed the attack should call the police...
= see
VERB : V n
3.
A witness is someone who appears in a court of law to say what they know about a crime or other event.
In the next three or four days, eleven witnesses will be called to testify.
N-COUNT : oft N for n
4.
A witness is someone who writes their name on a document that you have signed, to confirm that it really is your signature.
N-COUNT
5.
If someone witnesses your signature on a document, they write their name after it, to confirm that it really is your signature.
Ask a friend to witness your signature.
VERB : V n
6.
If you say that a place, period of time, or person witnessed a particular event or change, you mean that it happened in that place, during that period of time, or while that person was alive.
India has witnessed many political changes in recent years...
= see
VERB : V n
7.
If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened. ( FORMAL )
Many of these poems bear witness to his years spent in India and China...
PHRASE : V inflects , PHR n