SIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sight mean? 

• SIGHT (noun)
  The noun SIGHT has 7 senses:

1. an instance of visual perception

2. anything that is seen

3. the ability to see; the visual faculty

4. a range of mental vision

5. the range of vision

6. the act of looking or seeing or observing

7. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent

  Familiarity information: SIGHT used as a noun is common.

• SIGHT (verb)
  The verb SIGHT has 2 senses:

1. catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes

2. take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)

  Familiarity information: SIGHT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An instance of visual perception

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

the train was an unexpected sight

Hypernyms ("sight" is a kind of...):

visual image; visual percept (a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system)

Derivation:

sight (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Anything that is seen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

they went to Paris to see the sights

Hypernyms ("sight" is a kind of...):

display (exhibiting openly in public view)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sight"):

spectacle (something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight))

Derivation:

sight (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The ability to see; the visual faculty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

sight; vision; visual modality; visual sense

Hypernyms ("sight" is a kind of...):

modality; sense modality; sensory system (a particular sense)

exteroception (sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body)

Domain member category:

visual system (the sensory system for vision)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sight"):

stigmatism (normal eyesight)

peripheral vision (vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina)

daylight vision; photopic vision (normal vision in daylight; vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived)

night-sight; night vision; scotopic vision; twilight vision (the ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight))

near vision (vision for objects 2 feet or closer to the viewer)

monocular vision (vision with only one eye)

eyesight; seeing; sightedness (normal use of the faculty of vision)

distance vision (vision for objects that a 20 feet or more from the viewer)

chromatic vision; color vision; trichromacy (the normal ability to see colors)

central vision (vision using the fovea and parafovea; the middle part of the visual field)

binocular vision (vision involving the use of both eyes)

acuity; sharp-sightedness; visual acuity (sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart))

achromatic vision (vision using the rods)

Derivation:

sight (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A range of mental vision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

in his sight she could do no wrong

Hypernyms ("sight" is a kind of...):

perspective; position; view (a way of regarding situations or topics etc.)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The range of vision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

ken; sight

Context example:

out of sight of land

Hypernyms ("sight" is a kind of...):

compass; grasp; range; reach (the limit of capability)

Derivation:

sight (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The act of looking or seeing or observing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

sight; survey; view

Context example:

his survey of the battlefield was limited

Hypernyms ("sight" is a kind of...):

look; looking; looking at (the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sight"):

eyeful (a full view; a good look)

Derivation:

sight (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes)

Sense 7

Meaning:

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

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; sight; slew; spate; stack; tidy sum; wad

Context example:

a wad of money

Hypernyms ("sight" is a kind of...):

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sight"):

deluge; flood; inundation; torrent (an overwhelming number or amount)

haymow (a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation)

• SIGHT (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

sight; spy

Context example:

he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge

Hypernyms (to "sight" is one way to...):

comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sight"):

descry; espy; spot; spy (catch sight of)

detect; discover; find; notice; observe (discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

sight (the act of looking or seeing or observing)

sight (the range of vision)

sight (the ability to see; the visual faculty)

sight (an instance of visual perception)

sight (anything that is seen)

sighting (the act of observing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "sight" is one way to...):

aim; direct; take; take aim; train (point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

I'll come if I'm at the ends of the earth, for the sight of Jo's face alone on that occasion would be worth a long journey.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One Eye caught sight of a dim movement of white in the midst of the white.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This was a new sight to me, and I examined the structure with great curiosity.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then they vanished from our sight.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To see Steerforth walk to church before us, arm-in-arm with Miss Creakle, was one of the great sights of my life.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For example, chemotherapy, painful treatments, or the smells, sounds, and sights that go with them may trigger anxiety and fear in a patient who has cancer.

(Initiator, NCI Dictionary)

A sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch that a person believes to be real but is not real.

(Hallucination, NCI Dictionary)

In severe cases, they can affect sight, speech, breathing and your ability to swallow.

(Facial Injuries and Disorders, NIH)

The timing of the most recent sighting of an individual when that individual was alive.

(Last Time Seen Alive, NCI Thesaurus)

Poor Thorpe is in town: I dread the sight of him; his honest heart would feel so much.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)