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Thesaurus for sight
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- vision, visual sense, visual modality, ken, view, survey, batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, compass, display, exteroception, grasp, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, look, looking, looking at, modality, optical instrument, perspective, position, range, reach, sense modality, sensory system, visual image, visual percept, whole lot, whole slew
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Definition of sight
- (n): the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"
- (n): a optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument
- (n): the range of vision; "out of sight of land"
- (n): the ability to see; the faculty of vision
- (n): an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
- (n): a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong"
- (n): anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
- (n): (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"; "it must have cost plenty"
- (v): catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king''s men coming over the ridge"