sight

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noun

Plural noun:

sightssicht

1.
(countable, singular, uncountable)(in the singular) The ability to see.
He is losing his sight and now can barely read.
Đồng nghĩa: ken, perception, vision, eyesight, ken, sight, perception, vision
2.
(countable, uncountable)The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
to gain sight of land
3.
(countable, uncountable)Something seen.
Đồng nghĩa: view, vision
4.
(countable, in plural, often, uncountable)(often in the plural) Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
We went to London and saw all the sights – Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and so on.
You really look a sight in that ridiculous costume!
5.
(countable, in plural, often, uncountable)(often in the plural) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
Đồng nghĩa: peep sight, scope
6.
(countable, uncountable)A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
the sight of a quadrant
7.
(colloquial, countable, uncountable)(now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
a sight of money
This is a darn sight better than what I'm used to at home!
Đồng nghĩa: brimful, load, ton, abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketful, bucketload, butt-ton, bumload, buttload, cartload, crapload, deal, fuckload, fuckton, fuckwad, great deal, hantle, heap, hecatomb, helluvalot, horseload, lashings, load, lot, mampus, many, mass, metric fuckton, metric shitload, mickle, mountain, muckle, multiplicity, multitude, pile, ream, shedload, shitful, shitload, shitton, sight, slew, spadeloads, sum, superflux, ton, trainload, truckload, tun, vaultful, wagonload
8.
(countable, uncountable)In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening.
9.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The instrument of seeing; the eye.
10.
(countable, uncountable)Mental view; opinion; judgment.
In their sight it was harmless.
Đồng nghĩa: determination, mind, view, award, censure, choice, conclusion, decision, deduction, determination, ergotism, illation, inference, judgement/judgment, mind, opinion, result, sight, take, verdict, view

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

sights

V_ing/Gerund

sighting

V_ed/pp

sightedsicht

1.
(transitive)To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
to sight land from a ship
2.
(transitive)To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.
to sight a rifle or a cannon
3.
(intransitive, transitive)To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English sighte, from Old English sihþ (something seen; vision), from *sihti (seeing, sight), equivalent to see + -t. 2 cog Cognate with gazicht, gezicht, zicht (sight, vision), Gesicht, Sicht (view; sight; visibility), Gesiicht, Siicht (view; sight), געזיכט, sigt, sikt, sikt, sikte (sight).