1. (

• sight ,

) an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight" ;

2. (

• sight

) anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights" ;

3. (

• sight ,
• vision ,
• visual_sense ,
• visual_modality

) the ability to see; the visual faculty ;

4. (

• sight ,

) a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong" ;

5. (

• sight ,
• ken ,

) the range of vision; "out of sight of land" ;

6. (

• view ,
• survey ,
• sight

) 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. (

• 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

) (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" ;

1. (

• spy ,
• sight

) catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge" ;

2. (

• sight ,

) take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device) ;