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Noun sight has 8 senses
  1. sight - an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
    --1 is a kind of     visual percept, visual image
    Derived form: verb sight1
  2. sight - anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
    --2 is a kind of     display
    --2 has particulars: spectacle
    Derived form: verb sight1
  3. sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality - the ability to see; the faculty of vision
    --3 is a kind of modality, sense modality, sensory system; exteroception
    --3 has particulars:
     stigmatism; achromatic vision; acuity, visual acuity, sharp-sightedness; binocular vision; central vision; color vision, chromatic vision, trichromacy; distance vision; eyesight, seeing, sightedness; monocular vision; near vision; night vision, night-sight, scotopic vision, twilight vision; daylight vision, photopic vision; peripheral vision
    Derived form: verb sight1
  4. sight - a optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument
    --4 is a kind of     optical instrument
    --4 is a part of
     firearm, piece, small-arm; surveying instrument, surveyor's instrument
     --4 has parts: eyepiece, ocular
    --4 has particulars: bombsight; gunsight, gun-sight
  5. sight - a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong"
    --5 is a kind of     position, view, perspective
  6. sight, ken - the range of vision; "out of sight of land"
    --6 is a kind of compass, range, reach, grasp
    Derived form: verb sight1
  7. view, survey, sight - the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"
    --7 is a kind of look, looking, looking at
    --7 has particulars: eyeful
    Derived form: verb sight1
  8. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty"
    --8 is a kind of large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
    --8 has particulars: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
,Verb sight has 1 sense
  1. sight - catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"
    --1 is one way to     perceive, comprehend
    Derived forms: noun sight7, noun sight6, noun sight3, noun sight2, noun sight1, noun sighting1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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