Sight - Definition

n 1: an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife
brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected
sight"
2: anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the
television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
3: the ability to see; the visual faculty [syn: sight,
vision, visual sense, visual modality]
4: a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no
wrong"
5: the range of vision; "out of sight of land" [syn: sight,
ken]
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" [syn: view, survey, sight]
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" [syn:
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]
v 1: catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight
of the king's men coming over the ridge" [syn: spy,
sight]
2: take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other
device)