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sight



I - noun
1. an instance of visual perception (Freq. 17)
- the sight of his wife brought him back to reality
- the train was an unexpected sight
Hypernyms:
visual percept, visual image
2. anything that is seen (Freq. 12)
- he was a familiar sight on the television
- they went to Paris to see the sights
Hypernyms:
display
Hyponyms:
spectacle
3. the ability to see;
the visual faculty (Freq. 6)
Syn:
vision, visual sense, visual modality
Members of this Topic:
visual system
Hypernyms:
modality, sense modality, sensory system, exteroception
Hyponyms:
stigmatism, achromatic vision, acuity, visual acuity, sharp-sightedness,
binocular vision, central vision, color vision, chromatic vision, trichromacy, distance vision,
eyesight, seeing, sightedness, monocular vision, near vision, night vision,
night-sight, scotopic vision, twilight vision, daylight vision, photopic vision, peripheral vision
4. a range of mental vision (Freq. 2)
- in his sight she could do no wrong
Hypernyms:
position, view, perspective
5. the range of vision (Freq. 2)
- out of sight of land
Syn:
ken
Hypernyms:
compass, range, reach, grasp
6. the act of looking or seeing or observing (Freq. 2)
- he tried to get a better view of it
- his survey of the battlefield was limited
Syn:
view, survey
Derivationally related forms:
survey (for: survey), view (for: view)
Hypernyms:
look, looking, looking at
Hyponyms:
eyeful
7. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent (Freq. 1)
- 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
Syn:
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, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad
Derivationally related forms:
wad (for: wad), plenteous (for: plenty), pile (for: pile), heap (for: heap)
Hypernyms:
large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
Hyponyms:
flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, haymow

II - verb
1. catch sight of;
to perceive with the eyes (Freq. 4)
- he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge
Syn:
spy
Derivationally related forms:
sighting
Hypernyms:
perceive, comprehend
Hyponyms:
descry, spot, espy, spy, detect,
observe, find, discover, notice
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
Hypernyms:
aim, take, train, take aim, direct
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s

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