SIGHTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sights mean? 

• SIGHTS (noun)
  The noun SIGHTS has 1 sense:

1. an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument

  Familiarity information: SIGHTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIGHTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

optical instrument (an instrument designed to aid vision)

Meronyms (parts of "sights"):

eyepiece; ocular (combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments)

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

bombsight (a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs)

gun-sight; gunsight (a sight used for aiming a gun)

Holonyms ("sights" is a part of...):

firearm; piece; small-arm (a portable gun)

surveying instrument; surveyor's instrument (an instrument used by surveyors)

 Context examples 

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)

The little girl gave a cry of amazement and looked about her, her eyes growing bigger and bigger at the wonderful sights she saw.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

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)

But sights and sounds and smells were different from those he had last had when he fled away from it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“My life has been too quiet, I am not used to such sights.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the horror of these sights and sounds, the maid fainted.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

To do this, your brain has to recall the memory of her face and then try to match it without getting distracted by all the other sights and sounds of the crowd.

(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)

My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight and a thousand sights of beauty.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

No doubt you will find some sights to amuse you in this venerable city, and I hope to bring back a more favourable report to you before evening.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Be ready to pay for your accommodations and other expenses for your personal days so that you can see friends or take in the sights where you are visiting.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)