sight

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Our boys did not put in, for the sight was anything but pleasing to them; although Will did think it wise to get a picture of the camp, so as to add variety to his collection About three o'clock they suddenly came to a little town.

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  1. noun The ability to see.
  2. noun The act or fact of seeing: hoping for a sight of land; caught sight of a rare bird.
  3. noun Field of vision.
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  • She blinked, and her sight was as it had been, though her emotions threatened to overwhelm her still. —  Wraithbait
  • On the compound of a major public health facility such as the General Hospital in the capital city the sight was a most unwelcome, unwholesome and unsanitary one, especially at a time of heightened awareness about concerns over health and sanitation. —  TrinidadExpress Today's News
  • The other sight was a spectacular tree, one whose branches, instead of ascending toward the heavens, droop mournfully down to the ground-what garden people call a weeping form.
  • The views expressed on this sight are my own and do not represent official doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. —  WordPress.com News
  • The ushers suffered all decently dressed people to enter; the sight was the delight of persons from the country. —  Tea at Trianon
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appearance ·  vision ·  sound ·  view ·  shape ·  face ·  front ·  sign ·  light ·  place

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sight:   sighting ·  sights ·  Sight ·  sighted
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English sihth, gesiht, something seen; see sekw-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also sometimes site; from Middle English sight, sighte, syghte, sihte, syhte, siht, sihthe, earlier with a prefix, isiht, from Anglo-Saxon gesihth, gesiehth, gesyhth (=Old Saxon gesiht =Middle Dutch gesieht, Dutch gezigt =Middle Low German gesichte, sichte =Old High German gesiht, gisiht, Middle High German gesiht, gesihte, gesichie, German gesicht, also Middle High German siht, German sicht =Swedish Danish sigte), sight, vision, a thing seen, aspect, respect; with formative -th, later -t, from seón (preterit seah, past participle gesegen), see: see see.
  2. =Swedish sigta =Danish sigte, aim at; from the noun.
 

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