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Sight   /saɪt/   Listen
Sight

noun
1.
An instance of visual perception.  "The train was an unexpected sight"
2.
Anything that is seen.  "They went to Paris to see the sights"
3.
The ability to see; the visual faculty.  Synonyms: vision, visual modality, visual sense.
4.
A range of mental vision.
5.
The range of vision.  Synonym: ken.
6.
The act of looking or seeing or observing.  Synonyms: survey, view.  "His survey of the battlefield was limited"
7.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: 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, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.  "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"
verb
(past & past part. sighted; pres. part. sighting)
1.
Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes.  Synonym: spy.
2.
Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device).



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"Sight" Quotes from Famous Books



... at Guntersdorf and afterwards. At break of day (Wednesday, 28th), Mosel is again on the road; heavily jumbling forward from his quarters in Bautsch. Few miles on, towards Guntersdorf, he discovers Loudon posted ahead in the defiles. What a sight for Mosel, in his character of Wagoner up with the dawn! But Mosel managed the defiles and Loudon this time; halted his train, dashed up into the woody heights and difficult grounds; stormed Loudon's cannon from him, smote Loudon in a valiant tempestuous manner; ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--Seven-Years War Rises to a Height.--1757-1759. • Thomas Carlyle

... and lost no time in going forth like a knight errant in quest of the magic fount. On March 3, 1513, he sailed with three ships from Porto Rico, and, after threading the fair Bahama Islands, landing on those of rarest tropic charm, he came on Easter Sunday, March 27, in sight of the beautiful land to which he gave the name ...
— Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... two names for the same plant, Rue and Herb of Grace, and though at first sight there seems to be little or no connection between the two names, yet really they are so closely connected, that the one name was derived from, or rather suggested by, the other. Rue is the English form of the Greek ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

... her wound exposed. He looked over his shoulder several times after riding away, thinking that Finn would be likely to follow him. But the Wolfhound remained standing, some twenty paces from Jess's shelter, and, when the man was almost out of sight, stepped forward and lay down within a yard or two ...
— Finn The Wolfhound • A. J. Dawson

... was allowed but three clear days before he was hanged at the corner of King Street and Cheapside, within sight of the Guildhall which he had so often frequented as an alderman of the city, and on which his head was afterwards placed. He met his end with courage and with many pious expressions, but to the last maintained ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe


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