| 单词 | to take sights |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take sights a. A look or glance (at something or in a certain direction). Now rare except in slang phrase to take sights, to observe, to watch. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] eie wurpc950 laitc1175 looka1200 lecha1250 sightc1275 insighta1375 blushc1390 castc1400 glentc1400 blenkc1440 regardc1450 ray1531 view1546 beam of sight1579 eye-beam1583 eyewink1591 blink1594 aspecta1616 benda1616 eyeshot1615 eye-casta1669 twire1676 ken1736 Magdalene-look1752 glimmering1759 deek1833 wink1847 deck1853 vision1855 pipe1865 skeg1876 dekko1894 screw1904 slant1911 gander1914 squiz1916 butcher's hook1934 butcher's1936 gawk1940 bo-peep1941 nose1976 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > observe or watch spya1400 wait1399 espyc1405 watch1487 gate?1590 to look sharp1680 stag1796 to keep one's eyes peeled1844 to skin one's eyes1851 to peel one's eyes1875 to take sights1934 c1275 Moral Ode 280 in Old Eng. Misc. Þer schule þe wrecche soulen iseon þat sunegeden bi sihtes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 7886 Þe king kast anis on hir a sight. a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS xxix. iii. 119 Þe damysele caste on hire a siht. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Suffolk v Fortune euer since I was a lad, Did smile vpon mee with a chearefull sight. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) iii. 18 Be sicht or smyle lat non knaw ȝour intentis. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Oeil, the eye;..a sight, a looke. 1700 Moxon's Math. made Easie (ed. 3) 37 Compass, an Instrument..much more easy to be understood by a Sight, than the best description. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 141, in Poems I I fell..struck blind By the sight within your eyes. 1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. xx When you are coming down the alley give a sight up, sir, and you'll see me. 1934 P. Allingham Cheapjack xiv. 175 He pointed out a Rolls-Royce which stopped at the entrance of the fair... ‘Take sights at that Rolls,’ he said. ‘There'll be some right mugs turn up in a minute.’ 1950 R. M. Howe Gross's Criminal Investigation (ed. 4) viii. 163/1 Take sights, looking out (especially for suitable house to break into). 1962 New Statesman 21 Dec. 897/3 Once we have all this information, we start ‘taking sights’, and this means watching the house, from the grounds, for the best part of a week. < as lemmas |
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