sight
IPA: sˈaɪt
noun
- (in the singular) The ability to see.
- The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
- Something seen.
- (often in the plural) Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
- (often in the plural) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
- (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
- 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.
- (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
- Mental view; opinion; judgment.
verb
- (transitive) To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
- (transitive) To observe though, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating.
- (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.
- (transitive, intransitive) To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.
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Examples of "sight" in Sentences
- My eye sight is pretty good.
- It was a wretched, pitiable sight.
- I listed the traffic of the sight.
- An optometrist is checking his sight.
- Kihn screeches in horror at the sight.
- Junk research with the end in sight from the beginning ...
- In the days after the battle, the sight in his left eye faded.
- Each shutter is positioned in the line of sight of one of the eyes of a user.
- The missing items include night vision goggle, laser sights and rifle scopes.
- The motif of sight and vision is as central to the poem as it is to modernism.
- A five-pin sight is also offered, with 1 .029, 2 .019 and 2 .10 – inch diameter pins.
- Hawks tip off NBA season with No. 4 playoff seed in sight is the next entry in this blog.
- Similarly, New York City is valued more in the autumn for its cooler weather and plentitude of sights to see.
- The persistence of high unemployment, with no end in sight, is really going to come back to bite the Democratic party in the ass.
- The only thing in sight is trying to be the best football player I can be and getting drafted to a team that will allow me to play hard.
- To me also it was granted to see the man on that journey, [537] and by the sight of him and by his word I was refreshed, and _I rejoiced as in all riches_; [538] and I, in turn, though a sinner, _found grace in his sight_ [539] then, and from that time up to his death, as I said in the Preface. [
- He had never heard of me, but he was so impressed by the way I sang “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” that he signed me to the label sight unseen, and selected “Boulevard” as my first single for Columbia, As it turned out, it would be one of the few times that Mitch and I saw eye to eye on the subject of repertoire.
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