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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



... and again lost sight of the sea amidst ravines and dingles, amongst which patches of pine were occasionally seen. Continuing to descend, we at last came, not to the sea, but to the extremity of a long narrow firth, where stood a village ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... heard him croak with maudlin accent. "Pink Angel, begorrah! What doin' 'ere, eh? Whoop! Go back to sky, Angel!" and lifting a brutal foot he kicked the image into the street. Then with a shriek of laughter he staggered away out of sight. ...
— The Christmas Angel • Abbie Farwell Brown
... hand, which he never sold cheaper than any body else, though he got richer. Hornblower's account of how he and the Squire carried on business together in the good old times may not be uninteresting, 'Squire Burgle,' said Hornblower, 'was a great man in them days, said a sight of good things in his prayers every night and morning, denounced smuggling, and hoped all those fearless men that followed it would see the error of their way, turn to her Majesty, and make their loyalty honor the State. Squire ...
— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton
... often come of late, that she might perhaps have made a better use of all that life had brought her. But it was not a pleasant thought to pursue; and she gave a little start of relief and pleasure as she caught sight of two figures ...
— The Orphans of Glen Elder • Margaret Murray Robertson
... sailed still so fast, for the Admiral was of better sail than his ship. But the said Admiral (I know not by what means), bearing all his sails, was carried away with so great force and swiftness, that not long after he was quite out of sight, and the third ship also, with the same storm and like rage, ...
— The Discovery of Muscovy etc. • Richard Hakluyt


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