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sight

Pronunciation: /saɪt/

The English word “sight” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The sense or faculty by which objects are perceived through the agency of light; the sense by which we see.
  2. An act, instance, opportunity or possibility of seeing; the perception of objects by the eye; view (see also idiomatic expressions such as in sight, out of sight, catch sight of, etc.)
  3. Something seen.
  4. Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
  5. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target; see also in one's sights.
  6. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
  7. a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
  8. 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.
  9. The instrument of seeing; the eye.
  10. Mental view; opinion; judgment.

verb

  1. To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
  2. To observe through, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating.
  3. To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.
  4. To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.

Etymology

From Middle English sighte, from Old English sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti (“seeing, sight”), equivalent to see + -t. Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian gazicht (“sight, vision; pupil”), Dutch gezicht (“face; sight, vision”), zicht (“sight, vision”), German Gesicht (“face; sight, vision”), Sicht (“view; sight; visibility”), Luxembourgish Gesiicht (“face”), Siicht…

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