Definitions for sight

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sight sight

Spelling: [sahyt]

IPA: /saɪt/

Sight is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in sight (ghist).

Definitions for sight

noun

1. the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
2. an act, fact, or instance of seeing.
3. one's range of vision on some specific occasion:
4. a view; glimpse.
5. mental perception or regard; judgment.
6. something seen or worth seeing; spectacle:
7. Informal. something unusual, surprising, shocking, or distressing:
8. Commerce. presentation of a bill of exchange: a showing of goods, especially gems, held periodically for wholesalers.
9. Older Use. a multitude; great deal:
10. an observation taken with a surveying, navigating, or other instrument to ascertain an exact position or direction.
11. any of various mechanical or optical viewing devices, as on a firearm or surveying instrument, for aiding the eye in aiming.
12. Obsolete. skill; insight.

Idioms

1. at first sight, at the first glimpse; at once:
2. at sight, immediately upon seeing, especially without referring elsewhere for assurance, further information, etc.: Commerce. on presentation:
3. catch sight of, to get a glimpse of; espy:
4. know by sight, to recognize (a person or thing) seen previously:
5. not by a long sight, Informal. definitely not:
6. on / upon sight, immediately upon seeing:
7. out of sight, beyond one's range of vision. Informal. beyond reason; exceedingly high: Slang. (often used as an interjection) fantastic; marvelous:
8. sight for sore eyes, someone or something whose appearance on the scene is cause for relief or gladness.
9. sight unseen, without previous examination:

verb (used with object)

1. to see, glimpse, notice, or observe:
2. to take a sight or observation of (a stake, coastline, etc.), especially with surveying or navigating instruments.
3. to direct or aim by a sight or sights, as a firearm.
4. to provide with sights or adjust the sights of, as a gun.

verb (used without object)

1. to aim or observe through a sight.
2. to look carefully in a certain direction.

Origin of sight

before 950; Middle English (noun); Old English sihth (more often gesihth, gesiht; cognate with German Gesicht face; cf. y-), derivative of sēon to se

Examples for sight

They stopped short in surprise at the sight of Robert and Bates.

Delevingne regrammed the photo a few hours after Jenner, writing, “LOVE at first sight.”

She had left these two boys, unwelcome appendages in his sight.

Circus parades often became as large a sight as the performance itself; one Barnum and Bailey parade stretched for three miles.

In the afternoon, about a thousand people marched in protest through the largest Prague square, with police nowhere in sight.

Previously unknown papyri crop up only to vanish into private collections and out of the sight of scholars forever.

She'd marry me—she'd marry you, if you was the best thing in sight.

I wonder if the seasoned salesman can spot the billionaires on sight.

It would be pleasanter inland, but we must be near the shore, so as to be in sight of ships.

There was no one in sight, but it was evident that a party from an American ship had visited the island.