English dictionary
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English noun: sight | |||
| 1. | sight (cognition) an instance of visual perception | ||
| Samples | The sight of his wife brought him back to reality. The train was an unexpected sight. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | visual image, visual percept | ||
| 2. | sight (communication) anything that is seen | ||
| Samples | He was a familiar sight on the television. They went to Paris to see the sights. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | display | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | spectacle | ||
| 3. | sight (cognition) the ability to see; the visual faculty | ||
| Synonyms | vision, visual modality, visual sense | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | exteroception, modality, sense modality, sensory system | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | achromatic vision, acuity, binocular vision, central vision, chromatic vision, color vision, daylight vision, distance vision, eyesight, monocular vision, near vision, night vision, night-sight, peripheral vision, photopic vision, scotopic vision, seeing, sharp-sightedness, sightedness, stigmatism, trichromacy, twilight vision, visual acuity | ||
| Domain category members | visual system | ||
| 4. | sight (cognition) a range of mental vision | ||
| Samples | In his sight she could do no wrong. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | perspective, position, view | ||
| 5. | sight (cognition) the range of vision | ||
| Samples | Out of sight of land. | ||
| Synonyms | ken | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | compass, grasp, range, reach | ||
| 6. | sight (act) the act of looking or seeing or observing | ||
| Samples | He tried to get a better view of it. His survey of the battlefield was limited. | ||
| Synonyms | survey, view | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | look, looking, looking at | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | eyeful | ||
| 7. | sight (quantity) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | ||
| Samples | A batch of letters. A deal of trouble. A lot of money. He made a mint on the stock market. See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos. It must have cost plenty. A slew of journalists. A wad of money. | ||
| Synonyms | batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | deluge, flood, haymow, inundation, torrent | ||
English verb: sight | |||
| 1. | sight (perception) catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes | ||
| Samples | He caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge. | ||
| Synonyms | spy | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | comprehend, perceive | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | descry, detect, discover, espy, find, notice, observe, spot, spy | ||
| 2. | sight (perception) take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device) | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | aim, direct, take, take aim, train | ||
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