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Definition of Sight

Sight The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land. The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes. The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight. A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing. The instrument of seeing; the eye. Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person. Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant. A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening. A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money. To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck. To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star. To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon. To take aim by a sight. Related Definitions: Accurately, Act, Adjust, Admitting, Aim, Aiming, Also, An, And, Aperture, Apply, Are, As, Ascertained, At, Be, Border, Breech, By, Cannon, Canvas, Center, Direction, Drawing, Elevation, Examination, Eye, Faculty, Fixed, For, Frame, Gain, Get, Give, Great, Guided, Gun, Harmless, In, Instrument, Instrumentality, Intended, Is, It, Judgment, Land, Letter, Like, Look, Margin, Mental, Metal, Movable, Muzzle, Money, Number, Object, Of, On, One, Only, Open, Opening, Opinion, Or, Paper, Part, Perceiving, Perception, Person, Picture, Piece, Pistol, Power, Proper, Quadrant, Quantity, Region, Rifle, See, Seeing, Seen, Settled, Show, Sight, Small, Something, Space, Spectacle, Star, State, Sum, Surface, Take, That, The, Their, Through, Time, To, Trunnion, View, Visibility, Vision, Was, Which, Within, Worth, Wreck

Sight Quotations That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. William Wordsworth It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. Henry David Thoreau Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. George Eliot Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? William Shakespeare

Sight Translations sight in Dutch is richtmiddel, zoeker, vizier sight in German is anblick sight in Italian is cosa notevole, aspetto sight in Norwegian is utsikt sight in Portuguese is vista

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