Definitions for sights

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sights sight

Spelling: [sahyt]

IPA: /saɪt/

Sights is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in sights (ghisst).

Definitions for sights

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 sights

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 sights

And finds sights of faults with things wherever she is, sights of it.

Now Jeff Bezos has focused his sights on populating distant galaxies.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg already had the gun lobby in his sights.

I was with a reporter, Lenny Bernstein, whom she had caught in her sights.

At first he had prepared, thinking to please me, some visits to the sights of the towns.

Many of the women also claimed they were in emotionally vulnerable states when Cosby allegedly set his sights on them.

An international brand is in her five-year plan, and most things this young designer sets her sights on tend to come true.

The author was evidently amazed at all the sights which he witnessed in the monastery.

A glance at the intervening ground, another through his sights.

And a wholesome corrective is the Sunday service after the sights of Lourdes.