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Meaning of sight

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  sight
      n 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"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
      3: the ability to see; the visual faculty [syn: {sight},
         {vision}, {visual sense}, {visual modality}]
      4: a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no
         wrong"
      5: the range of vision; "out of sight of land" [syn: {sight},
         {ken}]
      6: the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a
         better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was
         limited" [syn: {view}, {survey}, {sight}]
      7: (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"; "see the rest of the
         winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost
         plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn:
         {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great deal},
         {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle}, {mint},
         {mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty},
         {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate},
         {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}]
      v 1: catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight
           of the king's men coming over the ridge" [syn: {spy},
           {sight}]
      2: take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other
         device)

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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