sight

sight is a 5-letter English word with 24 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
2. transitive verb. The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
3. transitive verb. The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight.
4. transitive verb. A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.
5. transitive verb. The instrument of seeing; the eye.
6. transitive verb. Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.
7. transitive verb. Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.
8. transitive verb. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant.
9. transitive verb. A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming.
10. transitive verb. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.
11. transitive verb. A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.
12. transitive verb. To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.
13. transitive verb. To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.
14. transitive verb. To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.
15. intransitive verb. To take aim by a sight.
16. noun. the act of looking or seeing or observing

    "he tried to get a better view of it"

    "his survey of the battlefield was limited"

    Synonyms: survey, view

17. noun. the range of vision

    "out of sight of land"

    Synonyms: ken

18. noun. the ability to see; the visual faculty

    Synonyms: vision

19. noun. an instance of visual perception

    "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"

    "the train was an unexpected sight"

20. noun. a range of mental vision

    "in his sight she could do no wrong"

21. noun. anything that is seen

    "he was a familiar sight on the television"

    "they went to Paris to see the sights"

22. noun. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

    "a batch of letters"

    "a deal of trouble"

    Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle

23. verb. catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes

    "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"

    Synonyms: spy

24. verb. take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)

Synonyms

survey, view, ken, vision, batch, deal, flock, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, raft, slew, spate

Common word forms

sights, sighted, sighten, sighter, sightly, sightful, sighting, sightable, sightless

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