Overview of noun sights

The noun sights has 1 sense

• sights -- (an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument)

Overview of noun sight

The noun sight has 7 senses

• sight -- (an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight")


• sight -- (anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights")


• sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality -- (the ability to see; the visual faculty)


• sight -- (a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong")


• sight, ken -- (the range of vision; "out of sight of land")


• 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")


• 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 -- ((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")

Overview of verb sight

The verb sight has 2 senses

• spy, sight -- (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge")


• sight -- (take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device))