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Noun: sights- An optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument
Noun: sight sIt- An instance of visual perception
"the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight" - Anything that is seen
"he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights" - The ability to see; the visual faculty
- vision, visual sense, visual modality - A range of mental vision
"in his sight she could do no wrong" - The range of vision
"out of sight of land" - ken - The act of looking or seeing or observing
- view, survey - (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
- batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad Verb: sight sIt- Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
"he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge" - spy - Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
Sounds like: cites, sites See also: sighting, visual Type of: aim, compass, comprehend, direct, display, exteroception, gander, grasp, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, look, looking, looking at, modality, optical instrument, perceive, perspective, position, range, reach, sense modality, sensory system, take, take aim, train, view, visual image, visual percept Part of: firearm, piece, small-arm, surveying instrument, surveyor's instrument Encyclopedia: Sight Sights |