Meaning

• (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.

• To form a mental picture of.

• (social) To meet, to visit.

• To be the setting or time of.

  "1999 saw the release of many great films."

• (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.

  "I'll see you hang for this!  I saw that they didn't make any more trouble."

• To wait upon; attend, escort.

  "I saw the old lady safely across the road."

• To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.

  "I'll see your twenty dollars and raise you ten."

• To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).

  "I'll come over later and see if I can fix your computer."

• (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.

  "For a complete proof of the Poincaré conjecture, see Appendix C."

• To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.

  "Can I see that lighter for a second? Mine just quit working."

• To include as one of something's experiences.

  "The equipment has not seen usage outside of our projects."

Meaning

• Directing the audience to pay attention to the following

  "See here, fellas, there's no need for all this rucus!"

• Introducing an explanation

  "See, in order to win the full prize we would have to come up with a scheme to land a rover on the Moon."