sight
verb
- view through an optical instrument
- view
noun
- device for alignment and aiming of a weapon
- ability to see
- view
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /saɪt/ / /səɪt/
noun
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”).
- The ability to see.
“He is losing his sight and now can barely read.”
“Thy sight is young, / And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.”
- The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
“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.”
- Something seen.
“He's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights; […]”
- Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
“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!”
- A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
“the sight of a quadrant”
“their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel”
- a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
“a sight of money”
“This is a darn sight better than what I'm used to at home!”
- 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.
- The instrument of seeing; the eye.
“Why cloude they not their ſights perpetually,”
- Mental view; opinion; judgment.
“In their sight it was harmless.”
“a very heinous Sin in the Sight of God”
verb
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”).
- 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.”
“to sight land from a ship”
- To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
“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.”
- To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.
“to sight a rifle or a cannon”
- To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.
“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].”