sight
//saɪt//
Forms
- Plural
- sights
- present (v1)
- sight
- past (v2)
- sighted
- past participle (v3)
- sighted
- present participle
- sighting
- 3rd person singular
- sights
Definitions
1.The ability to see.
- He is losing his sight and now can barely read.
2.The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
- And when hee had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken vp, and a cloud receiued him out of their sight.
3.Something seen.
- Keep all medicines out of the reach and sight of children.
4.Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
- They never saw a sight so fair.
- You really look a sight in that ridiculous costume!
- We went to London and saw all the sights – Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and so on.
1.To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
- 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.
- 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.
2.To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.
3.To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.
- 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.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1874
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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Etymology
From Middle English sighte, from Old English sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti (“seeing, sight”), equivalent to see + -t.
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