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What (who) is Sight - definition
DEVICE FOR ALIGNMENT AND AIMING OF A WEAPON
Hunter-killer sight; Optical sight; Gun sight; Gunsight; Sights; Gunsights; Pre-sighted artillery
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sight
![[[Leonardo da Vinci]]: The eye has a central line and everything that reaches the eye through this central line can be seen distinctly.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eye Line of sight.jpg?width=200 "[[Leonardo da Vinci]]: The eye has a central line and everything that reaches the eye through this central line can be seen distinctly.")
![The visual [[dorsal stream]] (green) and [[ventral stream]] (purple) are shown. Much of the human [[cerebral cortex]] is involved in vision.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ventral-dorsal streams.svg?width=200 "The visual [[dorsal stream]] (green) and [[ventral stream]] (purple) are shown. Much of the human [[cerebral cortex]] is involved in vision.")
![Yarbus]], 1967)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vision 2 secondes.jpg?width=200 "Yarbus]], 1967)")
SERIES OF EVENTS REQUIRED FOR AN ORGANISM TO RECEIVE A VISUAL STIMULUS
Eyesight; Eye sight; Vision (physiology); Vision (sense); Visual Perception; Sense of sight; Theory of vision; Intromission theory; Biological vision; Human visual perception; Human visual recognition; Ophthalmoception; Human vision; Sight (sense); Animal vision; Sight; Human eyesight; Visual cognition; Image perception; Perception of images; Artificial visual perception; Theories of vision; Intromissionism; Seeing (sense); Visual processing in the brain
n.
view
1) to catch; keep sight of
2) to lose sight of
3) at (the) sight (to faint at the sight of blood; to fall in love at first sight)
4) by sight (to know smb. by sight)
5) in, within sight (the ship was no longer in sight)
6) on sight (to shoot looters on sight)
7) out of sight
8) (misc.) to come into sight
something seen
9) a beautiful; comical, funny; disturbing; familiar; horrendous, horrible; memorable; pitiful; pleasant; sorry; thrilling; ugly; unpleasant sight
device used to aim a gun
10) to adjust one's sights
11) to line up one's sights
12) a front; panoramic; peep; rear; telescopic sight
13) (misc.) to have smb. in one's sights
ability to see
14) keen sight
sight
SERIES OF EVENTS REQUIRED FOR AN ORGANISM TO RECEIVE A VISUAL STIMULUS
Eyesight; Eye sight; Vision (physiology); Vision (sense); Visual Perception; Sense of sight; Theory of vision; Intromission theory; Biological vision; Human visual perception; Human visual recognition; Ophthalmoception; Human vision; Sight (sense); Animal vision; Sight; Human eyesight; Visual cognition; Image perception; Perception of images; Artificial visual perception; Theories of vision; Intromissionism; Seeing (sense); Visual processing in the brain
(sights, sighting, sighted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Someone's sight is their ability to see.
My sight is failing, and I can't see to read any more...
I use the sense of sound much more than the sense of sight.
= vision
N-UNCOUNT: oft poss N
2.
The sight of something is the act of seeing it or an occasion on which you see it.
I faint at the sight of blood...
The sight of him entering a room could flood her with desire.
N-SING: the N of n
3.
A sight is something that you see.
We encountered the pathetic sight of a family packing up its home...
N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft adj N
4.
If you sight someone or something, you suddenly see them, often briefly.
The security forces sighted a group of young men that had crossed the border...
VERB: V n
5.
The sights of a weapon such as a rifle are the part which helps you aim it more accurately.
N-COUNT: usu pl
6.
The sights are the places that are interesting to see and that are often visited by tourists.
I am going to show you the sights of our wonderful city...
N-PLURAL: usu the N, oft N of n
7.
You can use a sight to mean a lot. For example, if you say that something is a sight worse than it was before, you are emphasizing that it is much worse than it was. (INFORMAL)
She's been no more difficult than most daughters and a sight better than some I could mention...
ADV: ADV adj/adv [emphasis]
8.
9.
If you catch sight of someone, you suddenly see them, often briefly.
Then he caught sight of her small black velvet hat in the crowd...
= see
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n
10.
If you say that something seems to have certain characteristics at first sight, you mean that it appears to have the features you describe when you first see it but later it is found to be different.
It promised to be a more difficult undertaking than might appear at first sight...
PHRASE: PHR with cl
11.
If something is in sight or within sight, you can see it. If it is out of sight, you cannot see it.
The Atlantic coast is within sight of the hotel...
My companion suggested that we park out of sight of passing traffic to avoid attracting attention.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR
12.
If a result or a decision is in sight or within sight, it is likely to happen within a short time.
An agreement on many aspects of trade policy was in sight...
PHRASE: v-link PHR
13.
If you lose sight of an important aspect of something, you no longer pay attention to it because you are worrying about less important things.
In some cases, US industry has lost sight of customer needs in designing products...
= forget
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n
14.
If someone is ordered to do something on sight, they have to do it without delay, as soon as a person or thing is seen.
Troops shot anyone suspicious on sight...
PHRASE
15.
If you set your sights on something, you decide that you want it and try hard to get it.
They have set their sights on the world record...
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n
Sight
SERIES OF EVENTS REQUIRED FOR AN ORGANISM TO RECEIVE A VISUAL STIMULUS
Eyesight; Eye sight; Vision (physiology); Vision (sense); Visual Perception; Sense of sight; Theory of vision; Intromission theory; Biological vision; Human visual perception; Human visual recognition; Ophthalmoception; Human vision; Sight (sense); Animal vision; Sight; Human eyesight; Visual cognition; Image perception; Perception of images; Artificial visual perception; Theories of vision; Intromissionism; Seeing (sense); Visual processing in the brain
·vi To take aim by a sight.
II. Sight ·vt The instrument of seeing; the eye.
III. Sight ·vt A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.
IV. Sight ·vt A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.
V. Sight ·vt Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.
VI. Sight ·vt Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.
VII. Sight ·vt To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.
IX. Sight ·vt The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
X. Sight ·vt The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
XI. Sight ·vt 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.
XII. Sight ·vt 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.
XIII. Sight ·vt 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.
XIV. Sight ·vt 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.
XV. Sight ·vt 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.
Wikipedia
Sight (device)
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A sight is an aiming device used to assist in visually aligning ranged weapons, surveying instruments or optical illumination equipments with the intended target. Sights can be a simple set or system of physical markers that have to be aligned together with the target (such as iron sights on firearms), or optical devices that allow the user to see an optically enhanced — often magnified — target image aligned in the same focus with an aiming point (e.g. telescopic sights, reflector sights and holographic sights). There are also sights that actively project an illuminated point of aim (a.k.a. "hot spot") onto the target itself so it can be observed by, such as laser sights and infrared illuminators on some night vision devices.
Examples of use of Sight
1. People were collapsing because they lost their sight." She lost her sight for three days.
2. At first sight, this looks outrageously ungrateful.
3. Costly: Delays on a sight–saving drug have cost an estimated 20,000 people their sight Thousands at risk of blindness could soon qualify for sight–saving medication on the Health Service.
4. An eye test can save your sight." Former fashion designer Sarah Peters, 36, from Epsom, Surrey, lost her sight seven years ago.
5. The sight of exhausted officers slumped in chairs, awaiting their next mission is still a common sight at police command posts around the city.