Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A line of sight, especially one between a spectator and the spectacle in a theater or stadium.
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- noun A line between an
observer or a piece of optical equipment and an object of interest;line of sight .
Etymologies
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Examples
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With any current communications medium, the data being shared must be accessed using human senses, so that anyone in sightline or earshot of your media could view it as well as you can.
10 sci-fi technologies that just might happen « 10 Dots 2008
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Intense focus blooms in the middle of our sightline.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Meanwhile, he unwrapped the handkerchief from his hand, trying to rub feeling back into his numbed fingers, and waiting for the tracker to give him a sightline, when, with no more fanfare than a dust mote entering a Victorian drawing room on a ray of midafternoon sunlight, the bull was suddenly upon him.
Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing Jay Kirk 2010
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I am convinced that McSandbag and sightline either have not read it, or are liars.
Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010
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—The house sits beyond the fence surrounding the Bergen Catholic High School track, two of its windows offering a clear sightline through the trees to the field in the oval's middle.
So You Call This a Workout? Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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You want to keep your lips hovering in the corner of your sightline, whichever way you look.
Beauty spot: black lipstick Eva Wiseman 2010
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That sightline reports appears to assume that none of the $400 Million already budgeted for overruns is available or used used?
Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010
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It just so happened that for many months, when I rocked my son to sleep each night he would gaze up at his ceiling and his eyes would slowly wander across his sightline as though he was watching something leisurly moving around.
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—The house sits beyond the fence surrounding the Bergen Catholic High School track, two of its windows offering a clear sightline through the trees to the field in the oval's middle.
So You Call This a Workout? Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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From the highway, that so much matter rests within my sightline reassures me: reality is big, our theologies are small, we must go about sincerely rendered spiritual pursuits with a humility that mimics in its depth the vastness of creation.
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