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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
   - 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";
   - ken
    
6. The act of looking, seeing or observing
   "he tried to get a better sight of it";
   - view, survey
    
7. (often followed by 'of') a large number, amount or extent
   "a sight of letters";
   - batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, bunch [informal]

1. Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
   "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge";
   - spy, descry, spot, espy
    
2. Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)

Sounds like: cite, site

Derived forms: sighted, sights, sighting

Type of: aim, butcher's [Brit, slang], compass, comprehend, direct, display, exteroception, gander [informal], grasp, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, look, looking, looking at, modality, perceive, perspective, position, range, reach, sense modality, sensory system, take, take aim, train, view, visual image, visual percept

Encyclopedia: Sight