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NOUN | 1 | sight | An instance of visual perception |
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2 | sight | Anything that is seen | |
3 | sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality | The ability to see | |
4 | sight | A optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument | |
5 | sight | A range of mental vision | |
6 | sight, ken | The range of vision | |
7 | sight, view, survey | The act of looking or seeing or observing | |
8 | sight, batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | |
VERB | 1 | sight | Catch sight of |
Sounds | say't |
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Rhymes | acolyte, airtight, alight, and 175 more rhymes in ayt at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | An instance of visual perception. |
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Examples | "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight" |
Broader | visual percept, visual image |
Verbs | sight |
Meaning | Anything that is seen. |
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Examples | "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights" |
Narrower | spectacle |
Broader | display |
Verbs | sight |
Meaning | The ability to see. The faculty of vision. |
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Synonyms | vision, visual sense, visual modality |
Category of | visual system |
Narrower | stigmatism; achromatic vision; acuity, visual acuity, sharp-sightedness; binocular vision; central vision; color vision, chromatic vision, trichromacy; distance vision; eyesight, seeing, sightedness; monocular vision; near vision; night vision, night-sight, scotopic vision, twilight vision; daylight vision, photopic vision; peripheral vision |
Broader | modality, sense modality, sensory system; exteroception |
Adjectives | ocular, optic, optical, visual |
Verbs | sight |
Meaning | A optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument. |
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Part of | firearm, piece, small-arm; surveying instrument, surveyor's instrument |
Parts | eyepiece, ocular |
Narrower | bombsight; gunsight, gun-sight |
Broader | optical instrument |
Meaning | A range of mental vision. |
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Examples | "in his sight she could do no wrong" |
Broader | position, view, perspective |
Meaning | The range of vision. |
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Examples | "out of sight of land" |
Synonyms | ken |
Broader | compass, range, reach, grasp |
Verbs | sight |
Meaning | The act of looking or seeing or observing. |
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Synonyms | view, survey |
Narrower | eyeful |
Broader | look, looking, looking at |
Verbs | sight |
Meaning | (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent. |
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Synonyms | batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew |
Narrower | flood, inundation, deluge, torrent |
Broader | large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount |
Meaning | Catch sight of. To perceive with the eyes. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge" |
Narrower | descry, spot, espy, spy; detect, observe, find, discover, notice |
Broader | perceive, comprehend |
Nouns | sight; sight; sight; sighting; sight; sight |