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1. The ability to see; the visual faculty
   "The artist relied heavily on her sight to create stunning landscapes";
   - vision, visual sense, visual modality
    
2. An instance of visual perception
   "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
    
3. Anything that is seen
   "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
    
4. The act of looking, seeing or observing
   "he tried to get a better sight of it";
   - view, survey
    
5. The range of vision
   "out of sight of land";
   - ken
    
6. A range of mental vision
   "in his sight, she could do no wrong"
    
7. A place of interest, especially to visitors
   "we spent a week in Rome looking at all the sights"
    
8. (often followed by ‘of’) a large number, amount or extent
   "a sight of letters";
   - batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack [informal], tidy sum, wad, bunch [informal], scad [N. Amer, informal]

1. Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
   "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"; "We sightd a ship on the horizon";
   - spy, descry [literary], spot, espy
    
2. Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
   "The hunter sighted his rifle at the target"

Sounds like: cite, site

Derived forms: sighted, sights, sighting

Type of: aim, butcher's [Brit, slang], compass, comprehend, direct, display, exteroception, gander [informal], grasp, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, look, looking, looking at, modality, perceive, perspective, position, range, reach, sense modality, sensory system, take, take aim, tourist attraction, train, view, visual image, visual percept

Encyclopedia: Sight