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Noun: sight sIt- An instance of visual perception
"the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight" - Anything that is seen
"he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights" - The ability to see; the visual faculty
- vision, visual sense, visual modality - A range of mental vision
"in his sight she could do no wrong" - The range of vision
"out of sight of land" - ken - The act of looking or seeing or observing
- view, survey - (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
- batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad Verb: sight sIt- Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
"he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge" - spy - Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
Sounds like: cite, site Derived forms: sights, sighted, sighting See also: sighting, visual Type of: aim, compass, comprehend, direct, display, exteroception, gander, 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 Encyclopedia: Sight |