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sight

UK/saɪt/ US/səɪt/ common
noun (8) verb (1)

noun

1.

an instance of visual perception

  • “the sight of his wife brought him back to reality”
  • “the train was an unexpected sight”
2.

anything that is seen

  • “he was a familiar sight on the television”
  • “they went to Paris to see the sights”
3.
4.

a optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument

5.

a range of mental vision

  • “in his sight she could do no wrong”
6.

the range of vision

  • “out of sight of land”
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7.

the act of looking or seeing or observing

  • “he tried to get a better view of it”
  • “his survey of the battlefield was limited”
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8.

(often followed by `of'') a large number or amount or extent

  • “a batch of letters”
  • “a deal of trouble”
  • “a lot of money”
  • “he made a mint on the stock market”
  • “it must have cost plenty”
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verb

1.

catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes

  • “he caught sight of the king”

Origin

From Middle English sighte, from Old English sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti (“seeing, sight”), equivalent to see + -t. Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian gazicht (“sight, vision; pupil”), Dutch gezicht (“face; sight, vision”), zicht (“sight, vision”), German Gesicht (“face; sight, vision”), Sicht (“view; sight; visibility”), Luxembourgish Gesiicht (“face”), Siicht (“view; sight”), Yiddish געזיכט (gezikht, “face”), Danish sigt (“sight; visibility”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk sikt (“visibility”), Swedish sikt (“visibility”), sikte (“sight”).

Phrases

  • a damn sight
  • a fuck sight
  • at first sight
  • at short sight
  • at sight
  • at the sight of
  • barleycorn sight
  • bill of sight

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