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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
- 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
- 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: | stigmatism; achromatic vision; acuity, visual acuity, sharp-sightedness; binocular vision; central vision; color vision, chromatic vision, trichromacy; distance vision; eyesight, seeing, sightedness; monocular vision; near vision; night vision, night-sight, scotopic vision, twilight vision; daylight vision, photopic vision; peripheral vision |
- 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
--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
- 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
- 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
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