What is sight?

Answer 1

1. (noun) sight

an instance of visual perception

"the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"

2. (noun) sight

anything that is seen

"he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"

3. (noun) sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality

the ability to see; the visual faculty

4. (noun) sight

a range of mental vision

"in his sight she could do no wrong"

5. (noun) sight, ken

the range of vision

"out of sight of land"

6. (noun) view, survey, sight

the act of looking or seeing or observing

"he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"

7. (verb) 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, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

"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"

8. (verb) spy, sight

catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes

"he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"

9. (verb) sight

take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)