sight
/saɪt/ verb C2- To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually. · to sight land from a ship
- To observe through, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating.
- To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of. · to sight a rifle or a cannon
- To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.
He/she/it sights · Past sighted · Past participle sighted · -ing form sighting
Verb forms
- Base form
- sight
- He/she/it
- sights
- Past
- sighted
- Past participle
- sighted
- -ing form
- sighting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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This entertaining sight brought the people in crowds to laugh at it, till the Ass, not liking the noise nor the strange handling that he was subject to, broke the cords that bound him and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river.
“Very well, as far as I could judge from the sight of him.”
The Hawk, interrupting him, said: “I should indeed have lost my senses if I should let go food ready in my hand, for the sake of pursuing birds which are not yet even within sight.”
The prisoner whom you there see pale, agitated, and alarmed, instead of—as is the case when a curtain falls on a tragedy—going home to sup peacefully with his family, and then retiring to rest, that he may recommence his mimic woes on the morrow,—is removed from your sight merely to be reconducted to his prison and delivered up to the executioner.
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