(v. t.) The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
(v. t.) The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
(v. t.) The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight.
(v. t.) A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.
(v. t.) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
(v. t.) Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.
(v. t.) Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.
(v. t.) A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant.
(v. t.) A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming.
(v. t.) In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.
(v. t.) A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.
(v. t.) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.
(v. t.) To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.
(v. t.) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.
(v. i.) To take aim by a sight.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
(2) Wimbledon said the world No1 Williams had been suffering from a viral illness and it was a sad and bizarre end to the American’s tournament, not to mention a worrying sight, seeing her hardly able to play.
(3) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Imogen and her father, John Hull, before he lost his sight.
(5) Their physical condition and performance was found to be comparable with that of normal sighted children.
(6) "At first sight, today's announcement of an independent commissioner is a missed opportunity to strengthen our co-ordinated approach to addressing these very serious matters.
(7) He saw a soldier aim his weapon’s laser sight at the al-Atrashes’ Volkswagen “like he was preparing to shoot”.
(8) Many Iranian women are already pushing the boundaries , and observers in Tehran say women who drive with their headscarves resting on their shoulders are becoming a familiar sight.
(9) The home fans were lifted by the sight of Billy Bonds, a legend in these parts, being presented with a lifetime achievement award before the kick-off and the former West Ham captain and manager probably would have enjoyed playing in Allardyce's combative midfield.
(10) This results from a lack of knowledge of what could be done to conserve sight, the irreversible nature of many eye diseases, the distances involved in travelling to the clinic, and even a lack of knowledge of its existence.
(11) However, this operation may not be as sight effective as many believe.
(12) The results of excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in 16 blind and 120 sighted eyes (136 patients) are presented.
(13) It is now a well-known fact that the human body is able to use luminous stimulation for aims other than sight; the pineal gland, though no longer directly sensitive to light as in lower animals, is nevertheless the fulcrum of a complex neuro-endocrine system which makes an interaction between light and the human body possible by means of the production of a number of substances of which melatonin is the most widely investigated.
(14) Senior government sources have confirmed the budget razor gang has the fuel tax credit (formerly known as the diesel fuel rebate) “firmly in its sights” – a scheme that rebates miners and farmers and others for the off-road use of diesel.
(15) The National Society to Prevent Blindness, formed in 1908, is the oldest voluntary agency with the singular mission to preserve sight and prevent blindness through a broad program of public and professional education, industrial and community services, and research.
(16) Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule Read more The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia and an alliance of rebels known as the “Euphrates Volcano” – backed US-led coalition air strikes – have seized swaths of territory from Isis, including the strategic border town of Tal Abyad .
(17) When vertically divergent eye movements occur, both eyes also systematically rotate in parallel around their lines of sight (conjugate cyclotorsion).
(18) The Greek finance ministry's financial crimes unit conducted the raids, and says it has many other groups in its sights.
(19) The incumbent mayor has set his sights on stronger powers over the London economy as he seeks re-election for a second term on 3 May.
(20) The classical age-related problems of poor hearing, poor sight and difficulty in chewing were also prevalent among these elderly.
Slight
Definition:
(n.) Sleight.
(v. t.) To overthrow; to demolish.
(v. t.) To make even or level.
(v. t.) To throw heedlessly.
(superl.) Not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe; weak; gentle; -- applied in a great variety of circumstances; as, a slight (i. e., feeble) effort; a slight (i. e., perishable) structure; a slight (i. e., not deep) impression; a slight (i. e., not convincing) argument; a slight (i. e., not thorough) examination; slight (i. e., not severe) pain, and the like.
(superl.) Not stout or heavy; slender.
(superl.) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
(v. t.) To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands.
(n.) The act of slighting; the manifestation of a moderate degree of contempt, as by neglect or oversight; neglect; indignity.
(adv.) Slightly.
Example Sentences:
(1) A slight varus angle of 2.1 degrees became apparent.
(2) At the moment we are, if anything, slightly lagging."
(3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(4) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
(5) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(6) At the highest dose of chloroquine tested (500 microM), a slightly greater increase in insulin binding and a decrease in insulin degradation were observed in fetal cells as compared with adult cells.
(7) Epidermal growth factor reduced plating efficiency by about 50% for A431 cells in different cell cycle phases whereas a slight increase in plating efficiency was seen for SiHa cells.
(8) )-induced gnawing behavior in rats was slightly more potent than that of clocapramine.
(9) Regression curves indicate that although all three types of pulmonary edema can be characterized by slightly different slopes, the differences are statistically insignificant.
(10) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
(11) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
(12) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
(13) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(14) The binding to DNA-cellulose of heat-activated [3H]RU486-receptor complexes was slightly decreased (37%) when compared with that of the agonist [3H]R5020-receptor complexes (47%).
(15) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(16) Hyperosmolar buffer slightly increased the sensitivity and maximal response to methacholine as well as the cholinergic twitch to electric field stimulation.
(17) Though three of these presumable metabolites could slightly inhibit the binding of [3H]-KW-3049, they were not detected in rat and dog plasma at 0.5 h after oral administration of KW-3049.
(18) Lambing rates approach 1.5 lambs per ewe per year, but a death rate of 23 per cent and an offtake of 27 per cent, means that flock numbers are probably slightly declining.
(19) Subjects who trained an additional 52 wk showed a slight drop in SV at submaximal work loads from the initial increase following the first 9 wk.
(20) Steroid-treated steers showed a slight decline in synthesis which was significant (P less than 0.05) at week +5 post-implant while amino acid oxidation was significantly lower at weeks +2 (P less than 0.01) and +5 (P less than 0.05) compared with control animals.