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1. sight - noun

· an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"

Hypernym(s): visual_percept, visual_image




2. sight - noun

· anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"

Hypernym(s): display




3. sight - noun

· the ability to see; the visual faculty

Synonym(s): vision, visual_sense, visual_modality

Hypernym(s): modality, sense_modality, sensory_system, exteroception




4. sight - noun

· a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong"

Hypernym(s): position, view, perspective




5. sight - noun

· the range of vision; "out of sight of land"

Synonym(s): ken

Hypernym(s): compass, range, reach, grasp




6. sight - noun

· the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"

Synonym(s): view, survey

Hypernym(s): look, looking, looking_at




7. sight - noun

· (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "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"

Synonym(s): 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

Hypernym(s): large_indefinite_quantity, large_indefinite_amount




8. sight - verb

· catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"

Synonym(s): spy

Hypernym(s): perceive, comprehend




9. sight - verb

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

Hypernym(s): aim, take, train, take_aim, direct





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