What's the difference between sight and vision?

Sight


Definition:

  • (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.

Vision


Definition:

  • (v.) The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.
  • (v.) The faculty of seeing; sight; one of the five senses, by which colors and the physical qualities of external objects are appreciated as a result of the stimulating action of light on the sensitive retina, an expansion of the optic nerve.
  • (v.) That which is seen; an object of sight.
  • (v.) Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye; a supernatural, prophetic, or imaginary sight; an apparition; a phantom; a specter; as, the visions of Isaiah.
  • (v.) Hence, something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
  • (v. t.) To see in a vision; to dream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (2) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
  • (3) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
  • (4) At this threshold there was no effect on reducing the rate of visual acuity overreferrals, but ten children with abnormal binocular vision were detected who were not referred by visual acuity criteria.
  • (5) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
  • (6) Case 3 was that of a 70-year-old female with left impaired vision and frontal headache.
  • (7) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
  • (8) Adaptation at 10 deg eccentricity yielded slightly higher threshold elevations than for central vision.
  • (9) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
  • (10) Acini in the parotid gland of the North American mink (Mustela vision) are composed of seromucous cells that contain secretory granules of peculiar morphology.
  • (11) Drones and helicopter strikes are not equipped with political night-vision.
  • (12) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
  • (13) A 40 year old female presented with secondary glaucoma and loss of vision due to anterior pole metastasis of breast carcinoma.
  • (14) We present a patient with unilateral progressive painless loss of vision leading to optic atrophy and blindness.
  • (15) Proposed guidelines for future research include the use of conceptual rather than operational definitions of visual spatial ability, greater attention directed at separating spatial from nonspatial task components, and studies examining basic mechanisms underlying spatial vision.
  • (16) Repeated replacements of keratoprostheses extruded or removed because of complications were possible with restoration of the vision obtained after the first implantation.
  • (17) Whatever else Scott is about, Waverley ends with a vision of Britishness and a British union.
  • (18) The external and internal rear-view mirrors of automobiles should be positioned within the binocular field of vision.
  • (19) We address this issue directly over a 5-log10-unit range of light levels covering scotopic, mesopic, and photopic vision.
  • (20) Ocular disorders had been found in 62% of the cases, commonly represented by blindness of one eye, decreased vision, papillar edema and eventually by occlusion of the retineal artery.