(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.
Wight
Definition:
(n.) Weight.
(n.) A whit; a bit; a jot.
(n.) A supernatural being.
(n.) A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language.
(a.) Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active.
Example Sentences:
(1) That was incorrect: for example, the Isle of Wight has never had a female MP.
(2) The owners of a wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight won a repossession order today in their attempt to end an occupation of the plant by workers protesting at planned job losses.
(3) Total maternal wight gain during gestation was lower for smoke-exposed animals than for non-smoke-exposed animals.
(4) Vestas has confirmed the closure of two sites on the Isle of Wight and Southampton with the loss of 425 jobs.
(5) Areas topping the league for quality beaches were the Isle of Wight, with two blue flags and 12 QCAs, Torbay, with five blue flags and nine QCAs, and Thanet, which has seven blue flags and four QCAs.
(6) Linehan is giving bigger roles to the other gangsters, not least the Teddy Boy spiv Harry, originally depicted by Peter Sellers, who will be played on stage by Stephen Wight.
(7) James Armstrong Dorchester • Here on the Isle of Wight, more than 3,000 planning applications have been approved by the council, to reach the island target of 520 houses a year, yet there is little activity on those sites.
(8) Domiciliary nebulizer use is evaluated in a well-defined population on the Isle of Wight covering all ages.
(9) According to tourist authorities on the Isle of Wight, there has been a “very significant leap” in its website traffic, while Visit East Anglia said its enquiries had risen by a quarter.
(10) But in a comparison to a fourth isle of Wight squirrel found dead last year, Simpson and other colleagues report in a letter to the journal that three had the same type of staph A, ST49, which has previously found in human isolates, according to a national database based at Imperial College, London.
(11) Sheridan told the court Wight had been one of the NoW's heaviest users of Whittamore, with Wight's name appearing about 70 times in Whittamore's records.
(12) Mr Quigley, who lives on the Isle of Wight, says: "I interpreted that as saying, 'Look for another bank account'.
(13) It was Wight who later provided a link to Astor, Davie's second and principal mentor.
(14) However, Britain currently has no commercial-scale wind turbine manufacturing plants, following the closure of the Vestas plant on the Isle of Wight last year.
(15) The company said that 40 employees had been found new roles within the Vestas research and development facility on the Isle of Wight.
(16) The setback follows the decision by the leading turbine maker Vestas to shut its Isle of Wight turbine factory this summer, just days after the government promised a clean-tech job revolution.
(17) David Wolfe QC, for the trust, claimed the two culls would involve killing an estimated 3,400 badgers in each area – each approximately the size of the Isle of Wight – and the long-term intention was to issue licences for up to 10 culls each year.
(18) I think she is the oldest person in the world to have a hip operation, and the surgeon, Jason Millington, and the anaesthetist were both courageous to take the decision to operate on someone of that age, but the operation went splendidly.” Hermiston said his mother, from Ryde, Isle of Wight, was recovering well after the operation last Friday.
(19) Since 1982, in the Isle of Wight hospitals, 13 cases of splenic injury following trauma have been treated applying various salvage procedures and are reported here.
(20) Julian Critchley: ‘Michael Gove radicalised me’ A civil servant in the Department for Education before training to be a teacher 12 years ago, Critchley last year left his job as head of history at a south London comprehensive to move to the Isle of Wight.