sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīt
ipa: /saɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: cite
homophone: site
Forms: form: sights
Etymology: From Middle English siȝht, siȝt, siht, from Old English siht, sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti, equivalent to see + -t. Cognate with Scots sicht, Saterland Frisian Sicht, West Frisian sicht, Dutch zicht, German Low German Sicht, German Sicht, Danish sigte, Swedish sikte.
Senses: examples: text: He is losing his sight and now can barely read.
text: Thy sight is young, / And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: O loſs of ſight, of thee I moſt complain!
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 12, line 67:
glosses: The ability to see.
examples: text: to gain sight of land
text: And when hee had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken vp, and a cloud receiued him out of their sight.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:9:
glosses: The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
examples: text: He's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights; […]
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 236d:
glosses: Something seen.
examples: text: We went to London and saw all the sights – Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and so on.
text: You really look a sight in that ridiculous costume!
text: And Moses saide, I will nowe turne aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 3:3:
text: They never saw a sight so fair.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion:
glosses: Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
glosses: A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
examples: text: the sight of a quadrant
text: their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
examples: text: a sight of money
text: This is a darn sight better than what I'm used to at home!
text: "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!"
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 2, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
glosses: In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening.
examples: text: Why cloude they not their ſights perpetually,
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: The instrument of seeing; the eye.
examples: text: In their sight it was harmless.
text: a very heinous Sin in the Sight of God
ref: 1720, William Wake, Principles of the Christian Religion in a Commentary on the Church Catechism:
text: That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 16:15:
glosses: Mental view; opinion; judgment.
Synonyms: sense: ability to see
word: sense of sight
sense: ability to see
word: vision
sense: something seen
word: view
sense: aiming device
word: scope
sense: aiming device
word: peep sight
Derived terms: a damn sight
a fuck sight
at first sight
at short sight
at sight
at the sight of
barleycorn sight
bill of sight
bore sight
by sight
can't stand the sight of
catch sight of
day-sight
eye sight
far sight
far-sighted
foresight
get out of my sight
globe sight
heave in sight
heave into sight
hidden in plain sight
hide in plain sight
hindsight
in one's sight
in plain sight
insight
in sight
keep sight of
leaf sight
line of sight
line-of-sight
long sight
long-sighted
lose sight of
love at first sight
mouse-sight
near sight
near-sighted
not a pretty sight
nowhere in sight
old sight
on sight
out of one's sight
out of sight
out of sight is out of mind
out of sight, out of mind
outsight
outta sight
oversight
point of sight
pyramid sight
second sight
short sight
short-sighted
sight bite
sight cheque
sight draft
sight for sore eyes
sightful
sight gag
sight glass
sight in
sightless
sightly
sight radius
sight read
sight-read
sight-reader
sight rhyme
sight-seeing
sight sing
sight to behold
sight-translate
sight translation
sight triangle
sight unseen
sightwise
sight word
slant sight
take a sight
telescopic sight
time sight