What's the difference between eyesight and seeing?

Eyesight


Definition:

  • (n.) Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2001 Sorensen suffered a stroke, which seriously damaged his eyesight, but he continued to be involved in a number of organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and other charitable and public bodies, until a second stroke in October 2010.
  • (2) And the question of his eyesight and how it has affected him has dogged him ever since.
  • (3) Major or complete loss of eyesight is a serious interference with the activity and life of the affected subject.
  • (4) The average person uses three mechanisms to control their balance; their feet, the inner ear and eyesight.
  • (5) Many serious disorders that threaten eyesight can now be treated with vitreoretinal surgery.
  • (6) The child regained her eyesight and had no further neurological problems.
  • (7) Deterioration of eyesight after the operation is ascribed to the duration of the high intraocular pressure and gradual progression of the proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
  • (8) Either he was rejected for poor eyesight; or he failed to enlist and instead joined up as an ambulance driver.
  • (9) Rhian Kelly, head of climate change at the CBI , said: "When we talk to members, the majority of them say the government has climate change firmly within its eyesight, and in that sense, national policy is a far larger driver."
  • (10) "There has been absolutely no deterioration in my eyesight ….
  • (11) "It could affect a few organs, his eyesight, his hearing, and it can attack muscles too.
  • (12) These discoveries led to the use of the seed of the species as an eye medicine for improving the eyesight, and as a tonic for the increase of strength and the elevation of spirit.
  • (13) Old Man Trump’s eyesight is failing, and he can’t stop trying to nonconsensually force his tongue into his nurse’s mouth.
  • (14) Members of two Leber families previously published in 1944 (Lundsgård) and 1968 (Seedorff), were traced during the years 1968-1980 and questioned in 1981 about their eyesight.
  • (15) A study in the Lancet, published in 2014, also claimed to have established a “clear cause–effect relationship” between the use of poppers and eyesight damage since the product’s main ingredient isobutyl nitrite was substituted for isopropyl nitrite following changes to legislation in 2006.
  • (16) By the end of his career, his poor eyesight meant he conducted entirely from memory.
  • (17) "My father is traumatised and depressed with the loss of his eyesight.
  • (18) (2) Last week, Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko was found guilty of ordering an acid attack that damaged the eyesight of the company's artistic director, Sergei Filin.
  • (19) Time losses for a curative and diagnostic consultation and provision of medical care to invalids of the Ist group with eyesight disorders exceeded the time necessary for rendering care to those who could see by 31-34%.
  • (20) Brown's allies thought the attack unreasonable because the prime minister's handwriting is affected by his poor eyesight.

Seeing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of See
  • (conj. (but originally a present participle)) In view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can't wait to see what Christie and her patriarchy-smashing pals do next.
  • (2) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (3) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (4) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (5) My boyfriend and I have been seeing each other for two years.
  • (6) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (7) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (8) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
  • (9) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
  • (10) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
  • (11) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
  • (12) If Deckard cannot see himself in the other, Roy can.
  • (13) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (14) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
  • (15) The association constants K'A, KN, and K'N in the scheme (see article), were determined for the magnesium salts of ADP, adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate AMP-P(NH)P, and PPi.
  • (16) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
  • (17) Stimuli presented to this island could be detected and discriminated, although the subject reported he did not see them.
  • (18) However, as all subjects had normal hearing and maximum speech discrimination scores pre-smoking, it can only be concluded that smoking marihuana did not worsen the hearing--the experiments were not designed to see whether it would improve hearing.
  • (19) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (20) We conclude by looking at several specific models and seeing how the results relate to previous work.