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Noun sight has 8 senses

sight - an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
--₁ is a kind of visual percept, visual image

Derived form: verb sight₁
sight - anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
--₂ is a kind of display
--₂ has particulars: spectacle
Derived form: verb sight₁

sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality - the ability to see; the faculty of vision
--₃ is a kind of modality, sense modality, sensory system; exteroception
--₃ has particulars:

Derived form: verb sight₁

sight - a optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument
--₄ is a kind of optical instrument
--₄ is a part of
firearm, piece, small-arm; surveying instrument, surveyor's instrument
--₄ has parts: eyepiece, ocular
--₄ has particulars: bombsight; gunsight, gun-sight
sight - a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong"
--₅ is a kind of position, view, perspective
sight, ken - the range of vision; "out of sight of land"
--₆ is a kind of compass, range, reach, grasp

Derived form: verb sight₁
view, survey, sight - the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"
--₇ is a kind of look, looking, looking at
--₇ has particulars: eyeful
Derived form: verb sight₁
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew - (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"
--₈ is a kind of large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
--₈ has particulars: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent

Verb sight has 1 sense

sight - catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"
--₁ is one way to perceive, comprehend

Derived forms: noun sight₇, noun sight₆, noun sight₃, noun sight₂, noun sight₁, noun sighting₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody