sight /saɪt/
1. an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
synset: sight
2. anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
synset: sight
3. the ability to see; the visual faculty
synset: sight, vision, visual_sense, visual_modality
4. a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong"
synset: sight
5. the range of vision; "out of sight of land"
6. the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"
7. (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"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
synset: batch, deal, flock, good_deal, great_deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite_a_little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy_sum, wad
1. catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"
2. take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
synset: sight
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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