preview

plural previews

1. An experience of something in advance.

   It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].

   2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36

   Synonyms: foretaste

2. colloquialAn advance showing of a film, exhibition etc.
3. A short collection of clips edited together to advertise a film, television show, etc.; a trailer.
4. The act of seeing something in advance.
5. computingA facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.

present singular third person previews · participle present previewing · participle past previewed · past previewed

1. transitiveTo show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.

   Vidal's talk was caled "The Screening Of History," and it was a free-ranging meditation on the United States, the movies, on Vidal's personal history and numerous interconnections. (It also previewed a forthcoming book by the same name.)

   1991 August 24, Lewis Gannett, “Gore Stories”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 6, page 8

2. transitivecomputingTo show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.