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SIGHTS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sights" is a kind of...):
optical instrument (an instrument designed to aid vision)
Meronyms (parts of "sights"):
eyepiece; ocular (combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sights"):
bombsight (a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs)
gun-sight; gunsight (a sight used for aiming a gun)
Holonyms ("sights" is a part of...):
firearm; piece; small-arm (a portable gun)
surveying instrument; surveyor's instrument (an instrument used by surveyors)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb sight
Context examples:
Such sights as I saw, my dear!
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
My attention was soon drawn away from these distant sights and brought back to what was going on at my very feet.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To sights and sounds and events which required action, he responded with lightning-like rapidity.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Humans and other primates rely more on sights and sounds.
(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)
These include hallucinations (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, or touches that a person believes to be real but are not real), delusions (false beliefs), and dementia (loss of the ability to think, remember, learn, make decisions, and solve problems).
(Antipsychotic, NCI Dictionary)
More than all do I rejoice that this, our first—and perhaps our most difficult and dangerous—step has been accomplished without the bringing thereinto our most sweet Madam Mina or troubling her waking or sleeping thoughts with sights and sounds and smells of horror which she might never forget.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In the present instance, it was sickness and poverty together which she came to visit; and after remaining there as long as she could give comfort or advice, she quitted the cottage with such an impression of the scene as made her say to Harriet, as they walked away, These are the sights, Harriet, to do one good.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But papas and mammas, and brothers, and intimate friends are a good deal gone by, to most of the frequenters of Bath—and the honest relish of balls and plays, and everyday sights, is past with them.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“If you was to go without seeing my little elephant, you'd lose the best of sights. You never see such a sight! Minnie!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
His senses, accustomed to the hum and bustle of the camp, used to the continuous impact of sights and sounds, were now left idle.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
