sight
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(verb) catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes: "caught sight of the kings men coming over the ridge." |
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Related Words: comprehend, descry, detect, discover, espy, find, notice, observe, perceive, spot, spy |
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(noun) a device for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument |
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Related Words: bombsight, gunsight, optical instrument |
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(noun) the range of vision; "out of sight of land" |
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Related Words: compass, grasp, range, reach |
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(noun) the ability to see; the faculty of vision |
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Synonyms: vision, visual modality, visual sense |
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Related Words: acuity, exteroception, eyesight, modality, night vision, night-sight, seeing, sense modality, sensory system, sharp-sightedness, sightedness, stereoscopy, visual acuity |
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(noun) 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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Related Words: visual image, visual percept |
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(noun) a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong" |
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Related Words: perspective, position, view |
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(noun) anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television" or "they went to Paris to see the sights" |
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Related Words: display, spectacle |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: survey, view |
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Related Words: eyeful, look, looking, looking at |
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(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "it must have cost plenty" |
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Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew |
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Related Words: deluge, flood, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, torrent |
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