{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "saɪt" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/sight.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/sight.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English siȝht, siȝt, siht, from Old English siht, sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti, equivalent to see + -th. Cognate with Scots sicht, Saterland Frisian Sicht, West Frisian sicht, Dutch zicht, German Low German Sicht, German Sicht, Danish sigte, Swedish sikte." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(in the singular) The ability to see.\nHe is losing his sight and now can barely read.\nc. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Thy sight is young, / And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.\n1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, ”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: J. M for John Starkey , →OCLC, lines 67, page 12:O loſs of ſight, of thee I moſt complain!" }, { "mean": "The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.\nto gain sight of land\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Acts 1:9:\nAnd when hee had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken vp, and a cloud receiued him out of their sight." }, { "mean": "Something seen.\n2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato (author), Sophist, 236d:\nHe's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights;" }, { "mean": "Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.\nWe went to London and saw all the sights – Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and so on.\nYou really look a sight in that ridiculous costume!\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Exodus 3:3:\nAnd Moses saide, I will nowe turne aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion\nThey never saw a sight so fair." }, { "mean": "A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target." }, { "mean": "A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.\nthe sight of a quadrant\nc. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel" }, { "mean": "(now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.\na sight of money\nThis is a darn sight better than what I'm used to at home!\n1913, D H Lawrence, chapter 2, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. , →OCLC:\"If your mother put you in the pit at twelve, it's no reason why I should do the same with my lad.\"\"Twelve! It wor a sight afore that!\"" }, { "mean": "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, the open space, the opening." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.\nc. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. , London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  , published 1609, →OCLC, :Why cloude they not their ſights perpetually," }, { "mean": "Mental view; opinion; judgment.\nIn their sight it was harmless.\n1720, William Wake, Principles of the Christian Religion in a Commentary on the Church Catechism:a very heinous Sin in the Sight of God\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Luke 16:15:That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.\n1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.\nto sight land from a ship", "submean": [ "(transitive) To observe though, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating.\n1912, John Herbert Farrell; Alfred Joseph Moses, Practical Field Geology, page 30:Next a point of known elevation, preferably one of the triangulation stations, is sighted; the vertical angle is read and the horizontal distance is scaled from the point of the setup on the map to the point sighted." ] }, { "mean": "(transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.\nto sight a rifle or a cannon" }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.\n2005 August 2, C. J. Cherryh, The Deep Beyond, Penguin, →ISBN:Jim braced the gun and sighted, tried to pull the trigger. Beside him a body collapsed, limp. It was Max. A shot had gone through his brain. Jim stared down at him, numb with horror.\n2009, James Wright, FBI: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity : an Autobiography, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 27:So I sighted the deer with my .30—30 and fired at him. The bullet hit about ten yards below the deer. I realized that I had a problem with the gun so I aimed about ten yards above the deer as he was running and he dropped dead on the .\n2010 October 6, Bryce M. Towsley, Gunsmithing Made Easy: Projects for the Home Gunsmith, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., →ISBN:This buck was finally mine. I had spent hours shooting at moving targets with that rifle and there was no way I could miss. 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