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Definition of 'sight'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) sight
the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.

2.  sight
the act or fact of seeing.

3.  sight
one's range of vision on some specific occasion:
Land is in sight.

4.  sight
a view; glimpse.

5.  sight
mental perception or regard; judgment.

6.  sight
something seen or worth seeing; spectacle:
the sights of London.

7.  sight
a person or thing that is unusual, shocking, or distressing to see:
He was a sight after the brawl.

8.  sight
Chiefly Dial. a multitude; great deal:
It's a sight better to work than to starve.

9.  sight
an observation taken with a surveying, navigating, or other instrument to ascertain an exact position or direction.

10.  sight
any of various mechanical or optical viewing devices, as on a firearm, for aiding the eye in aiming.

11.  sight
Obs. skill; insight.

12. (v.t.) sight
to see, glimpse, notice, or observe:
to sight a ship to the north.

13.  sight
to take a sight or observation of, esp. with surveying or navigating instruments.

14.  sight
to direct or aim by a sight or sights, as a firearm.

15.  sight
to provide with sights or adjust the sights of, as a gun.

16. (v.i.) sight
to aim or observe through a sight.

17.  sight
to look carefully in a certain direction.

18.  sight
immediately upon seeing.

19.  sight
on presentation:
a draft payable at sight.

20.  sight
by a long sight, (usu. with a negative) to an extreme degree:
You haven't finished yet by a long sight.

21.  sight
beyond one's range of vision.

22.  sight
Informal. exceedingly or extravagantly high:
The price is out of sight.

23.  sight
Slang. (often used as an interjection) fantastic; marvelous.

Definition of 'sight'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) sight
an instance of visual perception
"the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"

2. (noun) sight
anything that is seen
"he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"

3. (noun) sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality
the ability to see; the visual faculty

4. (noun) sight
a range of mental vision
"in his sight she could do no wrong"

5. (noun) sight, ken
the range of vision
"out of sight of land"

6. (noun) view, survey, sight
the act of looking or seeing or observing
"he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"

7. (verb) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

8. (verb) spy, sight
catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
"he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"

9. (verb) sight
take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)

Definition of 'sight'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) sight
the ability to see
He lost his sight in the accident.

2.  sight
when you see sth or sb
the sight of swans on the moonlit lake; For them, it was love at first sight.

3.  sight
at first sight
the view from the position you are in
as the parade came into sight; She watched until he disappeared from sight.; The ship was within sight of land.

4.  sight
sth or sb you can see
The sunset - what a beautiful sight that was.; the shocking sights of war

5.  sight
lose sight of
to stop thinking about sth important
We must not lose sight of our common goal.

6.  sight
set your sights on
to decide that you want to achieve sth
He's set his sights on becoming a doctor.

Definition of 'sight'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) sight
the act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land

2. (verb) sight
the power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes

3. (verb) sight
the state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight

4. (verb) sight
a spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing

5. (verb) sight
the instrument of seeing; the eye

6. (verb) sight
inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person

7. (verb) sight
mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless

8. (verb) sight
a small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant

9. (verb) sight
a small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming

10. (verb) sight
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 or the like, the open space, the opening

11. (verb) sight
a great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money

12. (verb) sight
to get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck

13. (verb) sight
to look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star

14. (verb) sight
to apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon

15. (verb) sight
to take aim by a sight

Translation of 'sight'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the act or power of seeing The blind man had lost his sight in the war.
Afrikaans: sig	Arabic: بَصَر	Bulgarian: зрение
Brazilian: vista	Czech: zrak	German: das Sehvermögen
Danish: syn	Greek: όραση (ως αίσθηση)	Spanish: vista
Estonian: nägemine	Farsi: بينايي	Finnish: näkökyky
French: vue	Hebrew: רְאִיָה	Hindi: दृष्टि
Croatian: vid	Hungarian: látás	Indonesian: penglihatan
Icelandic: sjón	Italian: vista	Japanese: 視力
Korean: 시력	Lithuanian: regėjimas	Latvian: redze
Malay: penglihatan	Dutch: gezichtsvermogen	Norwegian: syn
Polish: wzrok	Persian: بينايي	Pashto: ليد، ننداره، نظرديد، ځير،
Portuguese: vista	Romanian: vedere	Russian: зрение
Slovak: zrak	Slovenian: vid	Serbian: vid
Swedish: syn[förmåga]	Thai: กำลังสายตา	Turkish: görme yeteneği, görme
Taiwanese: 視力	Ukrainian: зір	Urdu: قوت بصارت
Vietnamese: thị lực	Chinese: 视力
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