Definition of
Sight
- (noun, act) the act of looking or seeing or observing
his survey of the battlefield was limited - (noun, cognition) the range of vision
- (noun, cognition) the ability to see; the visual faculty
- (noun, cognition) an instance of visual perception
the train was an unexpected sight - (noun, cognition) a range of mental vision
- (noun, communication) anything that is seen
they went to Paris to see the sights - (noun, quantity) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
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, perception) catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- (verb, perception) take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
- (noun, act) the act of looking or seeing or observing
via WordNet, Princeton University
Synonyms of Sight
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, ken, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, spy, stack, survey, tidy sum, view, vision, visual modality, visual sense, wad
Alternate forms of Sight
Hyponyms: achromatic vision, acuity, binocular vision, central vision, chromatic vision, color vision, daylight vision, deluge, descry, detect, discover, distance vision, espy, eyeful, eyesight, find, flood, haymow, inundation, monocular vision, near vision, night vision, night-sight, notice, observe, peripheral vision, photopic vision, scotopic vision, seeing, sharp-sightedness, sightedness, spectacle, spot, spy, stigmatism, torrent, trichromacy, twilight vision, visual acuity
Hypernyms: aim, compass, comprehend, direct, display, exteroception, grasp, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, look, looking, looking at, modality, perceive, perspective, position, range, reach, sense modality, sensory system, take, take aim, train, view, visual image, visual percept
Origin of the word Sight
- O.E. gesiht, gesih? "thing seen," from P.Gmc. *sekh(w)- (cf. Dan. sigte, Swed. sigt, M.Du. sicht, Du. zicht, O.H.G. siht, Ger. Sicht, Gesicht), stem of O.E. seon (see see). Meaning "perception or apprehension by means of the eyes" is from early 13c. Meaning "device on a firearm to assist in aiming" is from 1580s; th… more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper
Words that sound like Sight
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