Visit : nf (word coming from visit).
The word “visit” has several meanings:
I) From a person:
1. Going to see someone and staying with them for a while; receiving a visitor. ➙ interview, 1. meeting. The object, the purpose of a visit.
These are the reasons for his visit.
A short, a long visit.
Your visits are rare.
Polite and courtesy visit.
The time of visits (in a boarding house, hospital, prison, etc.).
To pay a visit, to visit someone.
To be visiting someone.
Receive someone's visit.
Receive visits.
Visit card.
By extension: Social gathering of people who visit each other, see each other regularly.
– “I like the game, the visits” (Molière) (reception).
2. The person who goes to another (visitor).
– “A few visits arrived, neighbors bitten by curiosity” (Zola).
Familiar: Of the visit: of visitors. We have visitors today.
3 Especially: For a doctor, The fact of going to see a sick person.
This doctor does not make house calls.
Visits and consultations.
Visitation rights (to the children), for the spouse who does not have custody of them.
Action of visiting (a customer).
Visits from a representative.
II) Of a place or its occupants
1. The fact of going to a place, to see, to browse, to visit (II).
Tourist visit.
Bus city tour.
Visit of a port.
Visit to a museum.
Guided tour, accompanied.
To meet, to visit.
Visit of a Head of State to a foreign country.
The fact of consulting a site, a web page. Visitor counter (to measure the audience of a site).
– “In the days that followed, the haberdashery was always full and Ten Fingers of Gold counted more than five thousand visits per day” (G. Delacourt).
2 The fact of going to a place, to carry out an examination, an inspection, findings.
Monitoring visit (round, tour).
Expert visit (expertise).
Inspection hatch: access for carrying out inspections and repairs.
Right: Home visit (search).
By extension: Customs visit: formality of examination of the goods, the luggage (search, search, verification).
Inspection by a religious superior.
Visit to the diocese.
Visit of the bishop: pastoral tour.
Visit, inspection of a ship (boarding).
Right of visit, recognized by an international agreement for warships, to visit merchant ships.
3 Examination of patients, sick people by a doctor in a hospital, clinic, community, etc.
The time of the visit.
Go to the medical visit.
Obligatory annual medical examination (control).
– “You will pass the visit, we will know that you are pulling in the flank” (Courteline).