Sight
noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 The ability to see. countable, singular, uncountable
"He is losing his sight and now can barely read."
- 2 the act of looking or seeing or observing wordnet
- 3 The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view. countable, uncountable
"to gain sight of land"
- 4 the range of vision wordnet
- 5 Something seen. countable, uncountable
"He's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights; […]"
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- 6 the ability to see; the visual faculty wordnet
- 7 Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad. countable, in-plural, often, uncountable
"We went to London and saw all the sights – Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and so on."
- 8 an instance of visual perception wordnet
- 9 A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target. countable, in-plural, often, uncountable
- 10 a range of mental vision wordnet
- 11 A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained. countable, uncountable
"the sight of a quadrant"
- 12 a place of interest, especially to visitors wordnet
- 13 a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative. colloquial, countable, uncountable
"a sight of money"
- 14 anything that is seen wordnet
- 15 In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening. countable, uncountable
- 16 (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent wordnet
- 17 The instrument of seeing; the eye. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Why cloude they not their ſights perpetually,"
- 18 Mental view; opinion; judgment. countable, uncountable
"In their sight it was harmless."
- 1 To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually. transitive
"I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore."
- 2 catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes wordnet
- 3 To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.; To observe through, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating. transitive
"Next a point of known elevation, preferably one of the triangulation stations, is sighted; the vertical angle is read and the horizontal distance is scaled from the point of the setup on the map to the point sighted."
- 4 take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device) wordnet
- 5 To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of. transitive
"to sight a rifle or a cannon"
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- 6 To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight. intransitive, transitive
"Jim braced the gun and sighted, tried to pull the trigger. Beside him a body collapsed, limp. It was Max. A shot had gone through his brain. Jim stared down at him, numb with horror."
Example
More examples"Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."
Etymology
From Middle English siȝht, siȝt, siht, from Old English siht, sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti, equivalent to see + -t. Cognate with Scots sicht, Saterland Frisian Sicht, West Frisian sicht, Dutch zicht, German Low German Sicht, German Sicht, Danish sigte, Swedish sikte.