sight
Other forms: sights; sighted; sighting
Your sight is your ability to see. If you're maneuvering through the house at midnight using your shins to locate the furniture, you'll appreciate your sight that much more. You could also turn a light on.
Sight has many different senses. It can mean the range of your vision, as in when you freak out when your little puppy goes out of sight. You can "take in the sights," meaning you're seeing all the special attractions of a town (also known as sightseeing). Sight can also be a verb, as when you sight a celebrity at your local taco stand, or when you sight your target using the sight on your gun, before you shoot.
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the ability to see; the visual faculty
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synonyms:
vision, visual modality, visual sense
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stigmatism
normal eyesight
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achromatic vision
vision using the rods
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acuity, sharp-sightedness, visual acuity
sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart)
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binocular vision
vision involving the use of both eyes
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central vision
vision using the fovea and parafovea; the middle part of the visual field
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chromatic vision, color vision, trichromacy
the normal ability to see colors
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distance vision
vision for objects that a 20 feet or more from the viewer
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eyesight, seeing, sightedness
normal use of the faculty of vision
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monocular vision
vision with only one eye
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near vision
vision for objects 2 feet or closer to the viewer
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night vision, night-sight, scotopic vision, twilight vision
the ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight)
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daylight vision, photopic vision
normal vision in daylight; vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived
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peripheral vision
vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina
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20/20, twenty-twenty
normal visual acuity, as measured by the ability to read charts at a distance of 20 feet
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oxyopia
unusually acute vision
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foveal vision
vision with the fovea
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stereoscopic vision, stereoscopy
three-dimensional vision produced by the fusion of two slightly different views of a scene on each retina
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type of:
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modality, sense modality, sensory system
a particular sense
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exteroception
sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body
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the act of looking or seeing or observing
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anything that is seen
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an instance of visual perception“the sight of his wife brought him back to reality”“the train was an unexpected sight”
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visual image, visual percept
a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system
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visual image, visual percept
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the range of vision
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a range of mental vision“in his sight she could do no wrong”
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perspective, position, view
a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
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perspective, position, view
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(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
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synonyms:
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, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
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barrage, deluge, flood, flurry, inundation, torrent
an overwhelming number or amount
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haymow
a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation
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large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude
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barrage, deluge, flood, flurry, inundation, torrent
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catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes“he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge”
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synonyms:
spy
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descry, espy, spot, spy
catch sight of
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detect, discover, find, notice, observe
discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
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catch out, find out
trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act
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sense
detect some circumstance or entity automatically
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instantiate
find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)
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trace
discover traces of
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see
observe as if with an eye
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comprehend, perceive
become aware of through the senses
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take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
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Vocabulary lists containing sight
Words that sound the same but are spelled differently (a type of homonym) can be stumbling blocks in comprehension or when trying to communicate something in writing. If you know that there's "peek" "peak" and "pique," which one do you use to describe what your character did at the window? If you use the wrong one, then your character has reached the heights (peak) or is having a fit if anger (pique) by the window. Is that what you mean? Is the character simply looking through that window (peek)? As you can see, all these words sound the same but suggest very different things. Here are 32 vocabulary words that are often confused.
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