sight
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (in the singular) The ability to see.Examples: "He is losing his sight and now can barely read."; "Thy sight is young, / And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle."; "O loſs of ſight, of thee I moſt complain!"Synonyms: sense of sight, visioncountablesingularuncountable
2. (often in the plural) Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.Examples: "We went to London and saw all the sights – Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and so on."; "You really look a sight in that ridiculous costume!"; "And Moses saide, I will nowe turne aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt."countablein-pluraloftenuncountable
3. (often in the plural) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.Synonyms: scope, peep sightcountablein-pluraloftenuncountable
4. (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.Examples: "a sight of money"; "This is a darn sight better than what I'm used to at home!"; ""If your mother put you in the pit at twelve, it's no reason why I should do the same with my lad." "Twelve! It wor a sight afore that!""colloquialcountableuncountable
5. (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.Examples: "Why cloude they not their ſights perpetually,"countableobsoleteuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.Examples: "I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore."; "to sight land from a ship"transitive
2. (transitive) To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.Examples: "Next a point of known elevation, preferably one of the triangulation stations, is sighted; the vertical angle is read and the horizontal distance is scaled from the point of the setup on the map to the point sighted."transitive
3. (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.Examples: "to sight a rifle or a cannon"transitive
4. (transitive, intransitive) To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.Examples: "Jim braced the gun and sighted, tried to pull the trigger. Beside him a body collapsed, limp. It was Max. A shot had gone through his brain. Jim stared down at him, numb with horror."; "So I sighted the deer with my .30—30 and fired at him. The bullet hit about ten yards below the deer. I realized that I had a problem with the gun so I aimed about ten yards above the deer as he was running and he dropped dead on the [spot]."; "This buck was finally mine. I had spent hours shooting at moving targets with that rifle and there was no way I could miss. I raised my gun and sighted through the scope."Synonyms: aim at, take aim atintransitivetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary