sight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 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”).
Base: see
Affixes: -t
Inflected forms:
form: sights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sicht
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: sights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sighted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sicht
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: The ability to see.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
uncountable
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!
gloss: The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to gain sight of land
And when hee had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken vp, and a cloud receiued him out of their sight.
gloss: Something seen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights; […]
gloss: Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
often
uncountable
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.
They never saw a sight so fair.
gloss: A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
often
uncountable
gloss: A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the sight of a quadrant
their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel
gloss: a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
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!"
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The instrument of seeing; the eye.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Why cloude they not their ſights perpetually,
gloss: Mental view; opinion; judgment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In their sight it was harmless.
a very heinous Sin in the Sight of God
That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
gloss: To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
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
gloss: To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
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.
gloss: To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sight a rifle or a cannon
gloss: To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
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: see
espy
glimpse
spot
Related words: see
vision
Derived words: a damn sight
a fuck sight
at first sight
at short sight
at sight
at the sight of
backsight
barleycorn sight
bill of sight
blindsight
bombsight
boresight
bore sight
by sight
can't stand the sight of
catch sight of
day-sight
daysight
desight
eye sight
far sight
farsight
far-sighted
foresight
get out of my sight
globe sight
gunsight
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
mindsight
mouse-sight
near sight
near-sighted
not a pretty sight
nowhere in sight
old sight
on sight
onsight
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
oversightly
point of sight
pyramid sight
rearsight
second sight
short sight
short-sighted
sight bite
sight cheque
sight draft
sighten
sight for sore eyes
sightful
sight gag
sight glass
sightholder
sighthole
sighthound
sight in
sightless
sightline
sightloss
sightly
sightproof
sight radius
sight read
sight-read
sight-reader
sight rhyme
sightscreen
sight-seeing
sightseeing
sightseer
sight sing
sightsman
sight to behold
sight-translate
sight translation
sight triangle
sight unseen
sightwise
sight word
sightworthy
slant sight
supersight
take a sight
telescopic sight
time sight
missight
undersight
unsight
resight
sightability
sightable
sighter
unsightable
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: sien
lang: Czech
word: spatřit
lang: Czech
word: zahlédnout
lang: Finnish
word: nähdä
lang: Finnish
word: saada näkyviinsä
lang: French
word: voir
lang: French
word: apercevoir
lang: German
word: sehen
lang: German
word: erblicken
lang: Greek
word: βλέπω
roman: vlépo
lang: Italian
word: vedere
lang: Italian
word: avvistare
lang: Korean
word: 보다
roman: boda
lang: Polish
word: dojrzeć
lang: Polish
word: zobaczyć
lang: Portuguese
word: ver
lang: Portuguese
word: avistar
lang: Romanian
word: vedea
lang: Russian
word: уви́деть
roman: uvídetʹ
lang: Russian
word: заме́тить
roman: zamétitʹ
lang: Spanish
word: ver
lang: Spanish
word: avistar
lang: Swedish
word: se
lang: Swedish
word: få syn på
lang: Swedish
word: sikta
lang: Ukrainian
word: поба́чити
roman: pobáčyty
lang: Ukrainian
word: диви́тися
roman: dyvýtysja
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhìn thấy