Sight

Definition: Sight

Sight

Noun

1. An instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight".

2. Anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television" or "they went to Paris to see the sights".

3. The ability to see; the faculty of vision.

4. A optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument.

5. A range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong".

6. The range of vision; "out of sight of land".

7. The act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited".

8. (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".

Verb

1. Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes: "caught sight of the kings men coming over the ridge.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Aerospace

Computing

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sight

Greatness

Great quan quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap; (assemblage); stock; (store); peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance; (sufficiency).

Multitude

Noun: mul numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife.

Prodigy

Noun: prodigy, phenomenon; wonder, wonderment; marvel, miracle; monster; (unconformity); curiosity, lion, sight, spectacle; jeu de theatre, coup de theatre; gazingstock; sign; St. Elmo's fire, St. Elmo's light; portent.

Ugliness

Eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog, woofer, pig; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum".

Crosswords: Sight

Let me see if I've got this straight, Lieutenant: it's an 8-foot creature, some kind with acid for blood, kills on sight, and is generally unpleasant (Alien³; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett)

What I mean, sir, is if you was to put me with this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile from Adolf Hitler with a clean line of sight well, pack your bags, boys (Saving Private Ryan; writing credit: Robert Rodat)

The finishing post's in sight. See you in the paddock keep your eye on the ball (Brazil; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Charles McKeown)

I come in here, and right away I'm catching the sight lines and looking for an exit (The Bourne Identity; writing credit: Tony Gilroy)

Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight (Thundercats; writing credit: Annabelle Gurwitch; Heather M. Winters)

It was love at 1st sight (Love At First Sight; performing artist: Kylie Minogue)

So if you are in sight and the day is right (All That She Wants; performing artist: Ace Of Base)

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

The sight of you, I fall apart (Last Night; performing artist: Az Yet)

Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight (Rivers Of Babylon; performing artist: Boney M)

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage to lose sight of the shore. (references; author: unknown)

Out of Sight (1966)

A Sight for Squaw Eyes (1963)

Gift of Sight (1961)

Sight Unseen (1958)

Love at Second Sight (1934)

Love At First Sight (performing artist: Kylie Minogue)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Sight Resource Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Sight Tests (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics (reference)

• Vocabulary Cartoons II: Building an Educated Vocabulary With Sight and Sound Memory AIDS (reference)

• Folk Song Sight Singing (reference)

• The History of Magic: To Which Is Added an Appendix of the Most Remarkable and Best Authenticated Stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Somnambulism, Predictions, d (reference)

• Macular Degeneration : The Complete Guide to Saving and Maximizing Your Sight (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Elections In Sight (reference)

• Sight And Sound (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Out of Sight - DTS (reference)

• Transworld Skateboarding - Sight Unseen (Video No. 12) (reference)

• Out Of Sight (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Second Sight (reference)

• Sight Unheard (reference)

• End Is Not in Sight (reference)

• Hidden in Plain Sight (reference)

• Tae Bo Inspirational: Walk By Faith..Not By Sight [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Red Sight Laser (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Baby Night Sight - Light & Mirror Combo (reference)

• David White LP6-20XL 20X Sight Level Package with Horizontal Circle (reference)

• Baby In Sight Mirror (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Francis X. Popper taking sight with alidade Plane table work on the Sacramento River Delta. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Captain Nemo taking a star sight from the deck of the NAUTILUS. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Schools of Cow-nosed Rays - Rhinoptera bonasus - are a familiar sight in the Chesapeake Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Female Canada goose setting on nest. Trying desperately to stay out of sight. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Taking a sun sight with sextants. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Lieutenant Harley Nygren taking a sun sight. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Shrimp trawlers and cactus - a seemingly incongruous but normal sight in south Texas. Credit: Fisheries.

Amberjack are a common sight on Carolina artificial reefs. Seriola dumerili. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Figure 1. A plastic Secchi disk of recent origin. This disk is lowered in the water until it disappears from sight. The depth at which it disappears is a measure of the water's transparency. Father Angelo Secchi devised this method in 1865 and tested it aboard the Vatican vessel IMMACOLATA CONCEZIONE. Several models were tested of different colors. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

A lizard is a common sight even in populated suburban areas. Credit: Unknown.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If anyone holding of us a lay fief shall die, and our sheriff or bailiff shall exhibit our letters patent of summons for a debt which the deceased owed us, it shall be lawful for our sheriff or bailiff to attach and enroll the chattels of the deceased, found upon the lay fief, to the value of that debt, at the sight of law worthy men, provided always that nothing whatever be thence removed until the debt which is evident shall be fully paid to us; and the residue shall be left to the executors to fulfill the will of the deceased; and if there be nothing due from him to us, all the chattels shall go to the deceased, saving to his wife and children their reasonable shares. (reference)

This I doubt not, but at first sight will seem a strange doctrine, it being so quite contrary to the practice of the world; there being nothing more familiar in speaking of the dominion of countries, than to say such an one conquered it; as if conquest, without any more ado, conveyed a right of possession. (Second Treatise of Government)

It is not therefore to be lost sight of in the further consideration of this subject. (reference)

In Switzerland they support the Radicals, without losing sight of the fact that this party consists of antagonistic elements, partly of Democratic Socialists, in the French sense, partly of radical bourgeois. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Never had the exquisite sight, smell, sensation of nature, tranquil, warm, and brilliant after a storm, been more attractive to her.

They were still in sight of Lieutenant Brown

In everything that made my love of any worth or value in your sight.

There was a look of pain in her face, which I would gladly have been spared the sight of.

That they may lose nothing of the sight, they scale walls, hang on to balconies, climb trees, swing to gratings, crouch into chimneys

The sunlight breaking suddenly on his sight turned the sky and clouds into a fantastic world of sombre masses with lakelike spaces of dark rosy light

Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes

The sack floated away, and the box, caught in the swift water, floated quickly away, out of sight, behind the brush

But the most hateful sight of all was the lice crawling on their clothes

In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

I bought everything in sight. (references)

But over the years it can steal your sight. (references)

But this does not mean that you will lose your sight. (references)

Business

It has also been declared as a World Heritage Sight. (references)

The method of payment is usually by letter of credit or sight draft. (references)

For larger or long-established firms, sight drafts often are more appropriate. (references)

Children

India

In July the NHRC coordinated with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for a medical student who had lost his sight just prior to his final exams. (references)

Estonia

The law allows for persons with serious sight, hearing, or speech impediments to become naturalized citizens without having to pass an examination on the Estonian Constitution and language. (references)

Civil Liberties

Hong Kong

Although numerous demonstrations took place, including demonstrations by hundreds of local and foreign Falun Gong practitioners, designated protest zones were 975 feet from the conference venue and mostly out of sight and earshot of the forum participants. (references)

Economic History

India

At first sight the bulk of the purchasing power in India would appear to be concentrated in its urban markets. (references)

North Korea

In September 1947, with no solution in sight, the United States submitted the Korean question to the UN General Assembly. (references)

India

Although such lists may seem impressive at first sight, some of them may be outdated, and some of the relationships may no longer exist. (references)

Human Rights

Burma

Tun Zaw Zaw, an NLD youth leader lost his sight while in detention; however, he had been released from Insein prison by year's end. (references)

Egypt

Mosaad Ahmed el-Sayed Abou Seif, age 19, who reportedly was surprised by police officers in his home in Shubra al-Khaima (north of Cairo) on March 27, was shot and killed on sight. (references)

Liberia

Paul Mulbah, director of the LNP, ordered that off-duty armed security men be removed from the streets and ordered police to shoot on sight any robbers resisting arrest; however, there were no reports of such incidents during the year. (references)

Trade

Vietnam

At present, sight L/C's and L/C's up to 180 days are most common. (references)

Venezuela

Similarly, some U.S. companies have had difficulties with sight draft transactions. (references)

Ecuador

Sixty percent of the letters of credit opened were at 90 days sight; the rest were at sight. (references)

Travel

Spain

Travelers who accept unofficial assistance are advised to protect their valuables by keeping them in sight or locking them in the vehicle. (references)

Bulgaria

Pickpocket and purse snatching attacks on the street or in public buses and trams are frequent occurrences, as is theft from automobiles, where thieves smash windows to remove valuables left in sight. (references)

Women

Nigeria

The Penal Code permits husbands to use physical means to chastise their wives as long as it does not result in "grievous harm," which is defined as loss of sight, hearing, power of speech, facial disfigurement, or other life threatening injuries. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Quick sight

Valley of sight

Sight of the valley

Expressions using "sight": a grand sight ♦ a sight ♦ a sight better ♦ a sight more ♦ a sight of money ♦ a sight worse ♦ acute sight ♦ an interesting sight ♦ angular velocity sight ♦ arc sight ♦ at first sight ♦ at sight ♦ at the sight of ♦ back sight ♦ banks'account at sight ♦ be a sight ♦ beautiful sight ♦ Bill of sight ♦ Breech sight ♦ by sight ♦ catch a sight of smb. ♦ catch sight ♦ catch sight of ♦ catch sight of smb. ♦ come in sight ♦ come into sight ♦ Day sight ♦ deposit from banks at sight ♦ dispart sight ♦ draft at sight ♦ due to banks at sight or within one month ♦ due to banks on sight ♦ field of sight ♦ find favor in smb.'s sight ♦ find favour in smb.'s sight ♦ first sight ♦ Fore sight ♦ Front sight ♦ get out of sight ♦ get sight of ♦ get sight of smth. ♦ gift of second sight ♦ gifted with second sight ♦ Globe sight ♦ go out of sight ♦ heave in sight ♦ heave into sight ♦ in my sight ♦ in sight ♦ in sight of all ♦ in the sight of god ♦ it's a sight for sore eyes! ♦ keep out of sight ♦ know by sight ♦ Leaf sight ♦ line of sight ♦ long sight ♦ look a sight ♦ loose one's sight ♦ loose sight of ♦ lose sight of ♦ lose sight of forget ♦ lose smb.'s sight ♦ losse of sight ♦ love at first sight ♦ mouse sight ♦ move out of sight ♦ muzzle sight ♦ near sight ♦ night sight ♦ no end in sight ♦ not by a blame sight ♦ not by a long sight ♦ on first sight ♦ on sight ♦ open sight ♦ organ of sight ♦ out of sight ♦ out of sight out of mind ♦ panoramic sight ♦ pass out of sight ♦ payable at sight ♦ peep sight ♦ point of sight ♦ poor sight ♦ put out of sight ♦ rear sight ♦ recover one's sight ♦ reflex sight ♦ ridiculous sight ♦ second sight ♦ sense of sight ♦ short sight ♦ shortness of sight ♦ sight a gun ♦ sight bill ♦ sight deposit ♦ sight document ♦ sight draft ♦ sight fund ♦ sight gag. Additional references.

Beginning with "sight": sight-bar, sight-bite, sight-bob, sight-distances, sight-finding, Sight-hole, sight-impaired, sight-leading, sight-lines, sight-read, sight-reading, sight-rule, sight-saving, Sight-seeing, sight-seeing tour, sight-seeing tourists, sight-seeing trip, Sight-seer, sight-seers, Sight-shot, sight-starved, sight-test, sight-vocabulary.

Ending with "sight": line-of-sight, on-sight, out-of-sight.

Containing "sight": line-of-sight range, line-of-sight transmission.

Afrikaans

aspek (appearance, aspect, look, view), air (appearance, aspect, look, view), aansig (appearance, aspect, look, view), aansien (appearance, aspect, esteem, look, regard, respect, view), aanblik (appearance, aspect, look, view). (various references)

Albanian

shquaj (descry, discern, distinguish, espy, individualize, know, signalize), shoh (behold, catch a glimpse of, catch sight of, descry, eye, give a look, look, overlook, see, view, witness), shikoj (eye, glance, glance over, keep an eye on, look, overlook, see, take a gander, take a look at, view, watch), shikim (eye, eyesight, eyewink, look, regard, view, vision), vështroj (eye, gaze round, look, look on, regard, see, survey, take a look at, trace, watch), vështrim (eye, look, regard, view), të pamë (run through, vision), panoramë (panorama, view), pamje (air, aspect, face, landscape, likeness, look, make, mien, mode, outlook, outside, physiognomy, presence, prospect, rig, scene, scenery, semblance, shape, spectacle, view, visage, vista), kuriozitet (curiosity), fushëpamje (horizon), dalloj (descry, differ, differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, espy, individualize, know, perceive, pick out, show smb. up, single out, tab, tell them apart, trace). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تسديد (discharge, settlement), ‏بصيرة (discernment, foresight, judgement, prevision, sagacity, vision), ‏شاهد (attestation, behold, evidence, see, telltale, text, view, witness), ‏رأى (catch sight of, conceive, consider, discern, estimation, pronouncement, see, set eyes on, spy, suppose, take notice), ‏رؤية (seeing, view, visibility, vision), ‏البصر (eyes, vision), ‏النظرة الأولى (on the face of it), ‏صوب (range, shine, shoot), ‏بصر (eyesight, see, seeing), ‏تصويب (aim, aiming, point), ‏مقدار كبير (bucket, mass, ream, surfeit, swag), ‏لمح (allude, behold, catch, catch sight of, descry, espy, glance at, glimpse, hint, imply, see, spy, suggest, twig), ‏لمحة (glance, glimpse, quick), ‏نظر (behold, consider, consideration, discernment, foresight, gaze, look, rumble, seeing, theorize), ‏نظارة طبية, ‏مدى النظر (eyeshot), ‏مشهد (outlook, panorama, perspective, prospect, scene, scenery, show, spectacle, view), ‏مصوب, ‏علامة التسديد (bead). (various references)

Bulgarian 

насочвам (aim, bring round, fasten, guide, launch, lay, level, point at, present, refer, ride at, set, set on, shape, steer), посмешище (derision, joke, laughingstock, mock, mockery, ridicule, scoff, sport), прицел (aim, cockshy), прицелвам се (aim, level, point at, range), преценка (adjudgment, appraisal, assessment, calculation, criticism, estimate, estimation, judgement, opinion, pronouncement, sapience, valuation, verdict), безброй (myriad, umpteen, wilderness, zillion), забелязвам (cognize, discern, espy, identify, note, notice, observe, perceive, pipe, remark, spot, take in, take notice), зрително поле (eyeshot, eyesight, view, visual field), поглед (blush, eye, eyewink, gaze, look, peek, regard, view, vision), много (almighty, amain, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, simply, sopping, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed), съзирам (behold, descry, discern, espy, make, make out, open, raise, set eyes on), обсег на погледа, виждам (behold, envisage, find, look up, make, open, perceive, see, see of, see through), визирам (endorse, initial, range), гледна точка (angle, slant, viewpoint), гледка (outlook, prospect, scene, show, view, vision), куп (accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, bunch, bundle, clamp, cluster, congeries, crop, crowd, cumulation, cumulus, heap, hoard, huddle, knot, lashings, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, pack, parcel, pile, raft, ruck, scad, shoal, slathers, stack, tumble), смешна гледка, зрение (eyesight, seeing, vision). (various references)

Chinese 

视域, 視覺 (visual), 目光 (view, vision), 景象 (scene), 情景 (circumstances, scene). (various references)

Czech

zrak (eye, eyesight, vision), zamířit (aim, direct, take aim, wend), zahlédnout (catch sight, glimpse, set eyes on), pohled (greeting card, look, postcard, regard, slant, spectacle, view), podívaná (peepshow, show, spectacle), okénko (counter, serving hatch, slot, window), mířidlo, co stojí za vidìní. (various references)

Danish

syn (appearance, aspect, look, view), sigtforhold (visibility). (various references)

Dutch

zoeker (gunsight), vizier (gunsight), richtmiddel (gunsight). (various references)

Esperanto

vido (view), celilo (gunsight). (various references)

Farsi 

جنبه (Aspect, Leer, Phase, Prospect, Self), بازرسی کردن (Espy, Examine, Inspect, Proctor, Search), بینش (Insight, Intelligence, Intuition, Seeing), بیناءی (Eye, Perspective, Spectrum, Vision), دیدزدن (Appraisal), دیدگاه (Beacon, Lookout, Peephole, Standpoint, Viewpoint), دیدن (Behold, Coneive, Distinguish, Eye, Look, Notice, Observe, Perceive, See, Seeing, Twig, View, Vision), باصره , جلوه (Bravery, Display, Flash, Luster, Parade, Seeming, Show, Showing), منظره (Landscape, Object, Outlook, Perspective, Picture, Prospect, Scene, Scenery, Spectacle, View, Vision), تماشا (Spectacle), قدرت دید, قیافه (Countenance, Expression, Gesture, Leer, Look, Mien, Semblance), نشان کردن (Earmark), چشم (Eye, Optic, Shiner), نظر (Advice, Discretion, Esteem, Look, Opinion, Regard, Shim, Slant, Thought, Verdict, View, Viewpoint), هدف (Aim, Butt, Cause, Goal, Mark, Object, Parrot, Point, Prick, Purpose, Scope, Target, Victim), الت نشانه روی . (various references)

Finnish

tähtäin, näky (vision), näkeminen (vision, visual perception), näköaisti, näkö (appearance, looks, vision), nähtävyys, katsanto. (various references)

French

vue (sense of sight), visée, spectacle. (various references)

Frisian

oansjen (appearance, aspect, exterior, look, to look at, view), gesicht (appearance, aspect, exterior, face, look, view), aspekt (appearance, aspect, look, view). (various references)

German

Anblick (appearance, aspect, look, scene, view), Sicht (prospect, view, visibility, vision), Sehen (behold, glance, look, look at, see, see about, seeing, spot, spy, to see, to spot, view, vision, watch, witness). (various references)

Greek 

όραση (eyesight, vision), θέα (outlook, prospect, scenery, scope, view, visibility, vista). (various references)

Hebrew 

מראית (appearance), מראה (outlook, prospect, spectacle, view, vista), תחום ראיה, עין (aperture, appearance, eye, hole, look), חזיון (drama, phenomenon, revelation, spectacle, vision, visualization), כונת (guide), השקפה (conception, outlook, review, slant, stance, view), ראיה (evidence, looking, seeing, testimony, vision, visualization, witnesses), ראות (seeing, view, visibility), נקודת ראות (point of view, viewpoint). (various references)

Hungarian

nézet (appearance, aspect, current coin, elevation, eye, judgement, judgment, look, opinion, sentiment, tenet, theory, view), látás (eyesight, seeing, vision). (various references)

Indonesian

penglihatan (eyesight, vision), pembidik. (various references)

Italian

vista (eyesight, outlook, prospect, spectacle, view, vision, vista), aspetto (air, appearance, aspect, complexion, countenance, face, feature, look, mien, outside, outward, person, respect, side, view), mirino (corn, finder, view, viewfinder), aria (air, airing, appearance, aria, aspect, climate, countenance, expression, look, tune, view), apparenza (appearance, aspect, color, colour, façade, guise, look, outside, semblance, show, view). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

照尺 , 目指 (aim at, spot), 情景 (scene, spectacle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょうしゃく, もくし (aim at, apocalypse, keeping quiet, silent contemplation, spot, tacit permission, taking no measures, view without saying a word), じょうけい (best policy, scene, spectacle, the above-mentioned). (various references)

Korean 

가늠. (various references)

Manx

troirey, shilley (distillation, eyesight, look, look in, scene, shed, shedding, show, spectacle, view), reayrt (outlook, prospect, scene, view), goaill reayrt sooilley er, feddyn reayrt er. (various references)

Norwegian

utsikt (view). (various references)

Papiamen

bista (view), aspekto (appearance, aspect, look, view). (various references)

Pig Latin

ightsay.(various references)

Portuguese

vista (aspect, clothe, eyesight, frontage, image, landscape, perspective, picture, prospect, scenery, view, vision, vista), mira (aim, bourne, cockshot, foresight, mark, point, target), alça (gunsight, handle, ring, strap). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

vista. (various references)

Romanian

spectacol (a grand sight, entertainment, performance, play, presentment, scene, show, spectacle), privelişte (landscape, lookout, outlook, scenery, sea-scape, view), apariţie (advent, apparition, appearance, arrival, birth, emergence, entry, ghost, issue, occurrence, peep, phantom, shape, spectre, vision), curiozitãţi, mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, squash, stack, swarm, throng), observa (catch sight of, descry, distinguish, espy, examine, heed, keep, mind, note, notice, observe, perceive, remark, see, study, survey, watch), observaţie astronomicã, ochi (aim, cover, covet, eyes, Gemma, glade, glances, link, loop, mesh, optic, orb, peeper, pink, pip, ring, scan, stitch, suspect, take aim at, take sight, train, vortex), ţinti (aim), orizont (everywhere else, Ken, level, purview, sky, skyline), zãri (appear, behold, catch, catch sight of, descry, discern, espy, get a peep, glimpse, notice, perceive, realize, rise, spy, view), privinţã (consideration, eyes, regard), privire (flash, glance, insight, look, regard, view), vãz (eyesight, seeing), vedere (conception, eyesight, idea, outlook, prospect, seeing, view, vision, vista), vizita (attend, call for, call on, come, come by, do, see, visit), vizor (aperture, back sight, eye, eyehole, sight vane), ochire (eye, glance, insight, levelling, look, regard, view). (various references)

Russian 

зрение (eyesight, vision). (various references)

Scottish

radharc (power of vision, prospect, view), léir (altogether, distress, entirely, pain, perception, power of seeing or being seen : is, torment, wholly), fradharc (eyesight, view, vision), coltas (appearance, aspect, likelihood, likeness, look, view). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

znamenitost (landmark, notability), vizir (view finder, viewfinder, visard, visor, vizor), vidokrug (eyeshot, horizon, ken, perspective, reach, view), vid (aspect, eyesight, vision), ugledati (catch sight of, come into view, get a hold, set eyes on, spy), prizor (raree show, scene, spectacle), pogled (eyewink, glance, look, outlook, regard, respect, view, vista), nišan (backsight, bead, gunpoint, hindsight, target), nanišaniti (line up), jadan izgled. (various references)

Spanish

vista (appearance, aspect, caller, examination, exterior, eyesight, fondness, hearing, look, perspective, seeing, show, take, takeoff, view, vision, visitor, vista), aspecto (angle, appearance, aspect, caliber, calibre, countenance, exterior, forehead, guise, likeness, look, outward appearance, point, regard, semblance, shape, side, turn, view). (various references)

Swedish

anblick (appearance, aspect, look, scene, show, view), syn (apparition, eye, eyesight, inspection, outlook, scene, show, spectacle, view, vision), sikte (aim, view), sevärdhet (monument), åsyn. (various references)

Thai

เล็ง, เห็น (behold, clock, see), การเห็น (seeing), ภาพ (tableau). (various references)

Turkish

gözlemlemek, bakmak (answer, attend, behold, care for, concern oneself, consider, consult, deem, do for, face, feed, fend for, find, Foster, front, front on to, give a look, groom, have a frontage on, have a look-see, keep, look, look after, look at, look on, look out, look through, look upon, maintain, make sure, nurse, overlook, put out to nurse, refer, regard, scan, see, see to, set eyes on, sit in, suckle, superintend, supervise, support, survey, take a gander, take a look, take a look at, tend, turn up, view, wait on, wait upon, watch), görüş (apprehension, argument, aspect, case, concept, conviction, estimation, eye, feeling, genius, horizon, idea, interest, notion, opinion, optical, outlook, position, sentiments, thought, view, vision, visual), görünüş (appearance, aspect, epiphany, face, facet, look, mien, outlook, semblance, spectacle), görünüm (appearance, aspect, complexion, outlook, perspective, prospect, view, vista), görüntü (blip, display, image, outlook, picture, semblance, spectacle, view), görme (optical, seeing, vision, visual), görme yeteneği (eyesight), görmek (behold, catch sight of, consider, espy, experience, get sight of, observe, see, see into, spot, transact, view, wake to, waken), ümit (expectance, expectancy, expectation, hope, look out, trust), gözlemek (long, Miss, monitor, observe, spy, spy out, watch), nişangâh, hal (aspect, circs, condition, demeanor, demeanour, estate, event, face, fettle, lay, plight, posture, repair, set, situation, stand, state, status), hedeflemek (aim, aim at, have in one's sights, home, intend, take aim at, work up, zero in on), ibraz (presentation, representation, submission), ibraz etmek (present, show, submit), ihtimal (chance, contingency, eventuality, likelihood, odds, possibility, potentiality, presumption, probability, prospect, verisimilitude), kanı (belief, conclusion, deliverance, esteem, estimation, eye, fancy, idea, impression, judgement, notion, opinion, persuasion, sense, sentiments, surmise, thought, view), manzara (landscape, lookout, panorama, Paysage, prospect, raree show, scene, scenery, scenic, spectacle, view, vista), nazar (blink, evil eye, eye, hex, look, regard, whammy), nişan almak (aim, draw a bead on, level, present, range, take aim at, take sight, train), göz (blinker, cell, compartment, Cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, cuddy, drawer, eye, eyehole, glim, ocular, ophthalmic, optic, optical, opto-, orb, orbit, orbital, peeper). (various references)

Turkmen 

tomaюa (show, spectacle), tirkeg. (various references)

Ukrainian

спостерігати (invigilate, look on, observe, oversee, see, twig, watch), вид (aspect, complexion, description, genus, kind, outlook, perspective, prospect, sort, species, view), зір (eyesight, vision), приціл (backsight, bead, hindsight), погляд (angle, aspect, belief, blush, eye, gander, look, mind, notion, opinion, view, viewpoint), поле зору, побачити (catch, descry). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự trông, sự nhìn (view, vision), thị lực sự nhìn, cuộc biểu diễn, cảnh tượng (spectacle), cảnh đẹp (beauty-spot, picture), cách nhìn tầm nhìn cảnh. (various references)

Welsh

tremynt (view), trem (aspect, look), gwelediad (appearance), golwg (aspect, eyes, look). (various references)

horama. (various references)

acie, aciem, acies, aspectamen, facies, prospectu, prospectum, specie, speciebus, speciei, speciem, species, visa, visi, visitatio, visitatione, visitationes, visitationis, viso, visu, visum, visus. (various references)

vista. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sight": sighted, sighter, sighters, sighting, sightings, sightless, sightlessly, sightlessness, sightlessnesses, sightlier, sightliest, sightliness, sightlinesses, sightly, sights, sightsaw, sightsee, sightseeing, sightseen, sightseer, sightseers, sightsees. (additional references)

Words ending with "sight": bombsight, eyesight, foresight, hindsight, insight, outsight, oversight, resight, unsight. (additional references)

Words containing "sight": bombsights, eyesights, farsighted, farsightedly, farsightedness, farsightednesses, foresighted, foresightedly, foresightedness, foresightednesses, foresightful, foresights, hindsights, insightful, insightfully, insights, longsighted, longsightedness, longsightednesses, nearsighted, nearsightedly, nearsightedness, nearsightednesses, outsights, oversights, resighted, resighting, resights, shortsighted, shortsightedly, shortsightedness, shortsightednesses, unsighted, unsighting, unsightlier, unsightliest, unsightliness, unsightlinesses, unsightly, unsights. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dight, ight, saht, Saigh, sgint, sgt, shight, sicht, Sifh, sighe, sigt, sigte, sigth, siht, singh, sogt, sright, stight, sugh, syght, syt, Xsight. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ghis, gist, gits, hist, hits, sigh, sith, this.

-2 letters: ghi, git, his, hit, its, sit, tis.

-3 letters: hi, is, it, sh, si, ti.

+1 letter: bights, dights, eights, fights, girths, griths, hights, lights, mights, nights, rights, sights, slight, thighs, things, tights, wights.

+2 letters: alights, bigshot, blights, brights, eighths, flights, frights, goatish, gothics, hasting, heights, highest, highths, histing, hogties, hosting, hygeist, insight, knights, nighest, plights, resight, shuting, sighted, sighter, sightly, sleight, slights, spright, tigrish, tushing, unsight, weights, wrights.