What is the meaning of SIGHT. Phrases containing SIGHT
See meanings and uses of SIGHT!Slangs & AI meanings
a great quantity (used ironically “look at the sight of youâ€)
To come in sight, to appear. A nautical phrase that originated with approaching vessels which appeared to raise or heave itself above the horizon.
Thumbing your nose at a senior shipmate behind their back. It is reminiscent of a person taking a sight with a sextant, but it is not meant for navigation.
Out of sight is slang for extreme or very unusual.
Take sights is criminal slang for observe, watch closely.
Sight is slang for a good deal, a large amount. Sight is slang for something shocking.Sight is Australian slang for to tolerate. Sight is Australian slang for to observe.
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By a long sight is American slang for by a long way, by a good deal.
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Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
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Pleasing to the sight; comely.
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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.
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To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.
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To take aim by a sight.
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The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.
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The act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.
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of Sightsman
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Wanting sight; without sight; blind.
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The state of being sightful; perspicuity.
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Having the power of second-sight.
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One who reads or performs music readily at first sight.
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Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.
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Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown.
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One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.
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Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains.
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Undiscoverable to sight.
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Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, and the like.
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Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively.
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