sight

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. The ability to see.
2. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
3. Something seen.
4. Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
5. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
6. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
7. (colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
8. 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. (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
10. Mental view; opinion; judgment.

Verb

1. To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
2. To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
3. To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.
4. To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/saɪt/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English siȝht, siȝt, siht, from Old English siht, sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti, equivalent to see + -th. Cognate with Scots sicht, Saterland Frisian Sicht, West Frisian sicht, Dutch zicht, German Low German Sicht, German Sicht, Danish sigte, Swedish sikte.