Definition of Sight

Noun: sight sIt

An instance of visual perception
"the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
Anything that is seen
"he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
The ability to see; the visual faculty
- vision, visual sense, visual modality
A range of mental vision
"in his sight she could do no wrong"
The range of vision
"out of sight of land";
- ken
The act of looking, seeing or observing
"he tried to get a better sight of it";
- view, survey
(often followed by 'of') a large number, amount or extent
"a sight of letters";
- batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, bunch

Verb: sight sIt

Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
"he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge";
- spy, descry, spot, espy
Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)