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Sight

noun

1.

An instance of visual perception. "The train was an unexpected sight"

2.

Anything that is seen. "They went to Paris to see the sights"

3.

The ability to see; the visual faculty. Synonyms: vision, visual modality, visual sense.

4.

A range of mental vision.

5.

The range of vision. Synonym: ken.

6.

The act of looking or seeing or observing. Synonyms: survey, view. "His survey of the battlefield was limited"

7.

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent. Synonyms: 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. "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"

verb

(past & past part. sighted; pres. part. sighting)

1.

Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes. Synonym: spy.

2.

Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device).

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"Sight" Quotes from Famous Books

... there where the desert mutters, and had grown to know his needs and his malevolence. They say that the desert had a need for Bethmoora, that he wished to come into her lovely streets, and to send into her temples and her houses his storm-winds draped with sand. For he hates the sound and the sight of men in his old evil heart, and he would have Bethmoora silent and undisturbed, save for the weird love he ...

— A Dreamer's Tales • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]

... ordinarily violent. I pulled aside the dressing-gown and searched the body for marks, but failed to find any. Nayland Smith crossed the room, and, assisted by the detective, carried Kwee, the Chinaman, into the study and laid him fully in the light. His puckered yellow face presented a sight even more awful than the other, and his blue lips were drawn back, exposing both upper and lower teeth. There were no marks of violence, but his limbs, like Strozza's, had been tortured during his mortal struggles into ...

— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

... In case of apparent error or over-sight you will do well to be courteous rather than over-bearing and dictatorial in your correction. Never risk losing an advantage by driving your audience into sympathy for your opponent by any manner of your own. A newspaper discussing the objections made to the covenant of the ...

— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton

... round, I suspect, for hour in and hour out, until just before day I saw the reflection of fire through the woods, and at the same time almost fell into a small pool. It was the reflection of the light by the pool which at once showed me the water and saved me from finding it with a sense other than sight. ...

— Who Goes There? • Blackwood Ketcham Benson

... a young Greek deacon had held a large illuminated book for the Pope to read the words of Consecration. We had no such gorgeous dresses as they, but nothing could have been more simply beautiful and touching than the sight of Tagalana's young face as he did the same good office. There was nothing artistic about it; the boy came forward with a wondering yet bright look on his pleasant face, just dressed ...

— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge

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