| 单词 | sight |
| 释义 | sight (once / 31 pages) nv Your sight is your ability to see. If you're maneuvering through the house at midnight using your shins to locate the furniture, you'll appreciate your sight that much more. You could also turn a light on. Sight has many different senses. It can mean the range of your vision, as in when you freak out when your little puppy goes out of sight. You can "take in the sights," meaning you're seeing all the special attractions of a town (also known as sightseeing). Sight can also be a verb, as when you sight a celebrity at your local taco stand, or when you sight your target using the sight on your gun, before you shoot. WORD FAMILYsight: foresight, oversight, sighted, sighting, sightless, sights+/foresight: foresightful, foresights/foresighted: foresightedly, foresightedness/foresightful: foresightfulness, unforesightful/oversight: oversights/sighted: foresighted, sightedly, sightedness, unsighted/sighting: sightings/sightless: sightlessly, sightlessness USAGE EXAMPLESLooking east from his home, he sees the snowcapped Sierra peaks - a welcomed sight missing for several years. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) Players in elementary grades at Jewish schools now set their sights on yeshivas with the most powerful hockey programs. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The Red Raiders flummoxed the Cyclones on their home floor, a rare sight at Hilton Coliseum, and jumped ahead by as many as 14. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the ability to see; the visual faculty Syn|Hypo|Hyper vision, visual modality, visual sense stigmatism normal eyesight achromatic visionvision using the rods acuity, sharp-sightedness, visual acuitysharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart) binocular visionvision involving the use of both eyes central visionvision using the fovea and parafovea; the middle part of the visual field chromatic vision, color vision, trichromacythe normal ability to see colors distance visionvision for objects that a 20 feet or more from the viewer eyesight, seeing, sightednessnormal use of the faculty of vision monocular visionvision with only one eye near visionvision for objects 2 feet or closer to the viewer night vision, night-sight, scotopic vision, twilight visionthe ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight) daylight vision, photopic visionnormal vision in daylight; vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived peripheral visionvision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina 20/20, twenty-twentynormal visual acuity, as measured by the ability to read charts at a distance of 20 feet oxyopiaunusually acute vision foveal visionvision with the fovea stereoscopic vision, stereoscopythree-dimensional vision produced by the fusion of two slightly different views of a scene on each retina modality, sense modality, sensory system a particular sense exteroceptionsensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body 2n the act of looking or seeing or observing Syn|Hypo|Hyper survey, view eyeful a full view; a good look look, looking, looking at the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually 3n anything that is seen he was a familiar sight on the television they went to Paris to see the sights Hypo|Hyper spectacle something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight) display exhibiting openly in public view 4n an instance of visual perception the sight of his wife brought him back to reality the train was an unexpected sight Hyper visual image, visual percept a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system 5n the range of vision out of sight of land Syn|Hyper ken compass, grasp, range, reach the limit of capability 6n a range of mental vision in his sight she could do no wrong Hyper perspective, position, view a way of regarding situations or topics etc. 7n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent Syn|Hypo|Hyper batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad deluge, flood, inundation, torrent an overwhelming number or amount haymowa mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude 8v catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge Syn|Hypo|Hyper spy descry, espy, spot, spy catch sight of detect, discover, find, notice, observediscover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of catch out, find outtrap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act sensedetect some circumstance or entity automatically instantiatefind an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word) tracediscover traces of seeobserve as if with an eye comprehend, perceive to become aware of through the senses 9v take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device) Hyper aim, direct, take, take aim, train point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards |
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