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Sight

//saɪt// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun

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."

Verb

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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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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

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