sight

«sight» in Mova's school dictionary: the ability to see; one of the five senses — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (sight, sights; a sight); verb (sight, sights, sighted, sighting)

meaning for a pupil

1) Sight is the ability to see; one of the five senses. tree →

2) A sight is something you see, especially something special or interesting. tree →

3) In sight means able to be seen; out of sight means not able to be seen. tree →

4) To sight something means to see it, especially something rare or far away. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, sight is one of the five senses (with hearing, touch, taste and smell); the eyes and brain work together to see; glasses help poor sight. In safety, keep in sight of your adult at busy places, and never look at the Sun, which can damage sight. In everyday life, tourists «see the sights» of a city. In stories, «at first sight» and «a sight for sore eyes» (a welcome thing to see). «Out of sight, out of mind» means you forget things you don't see.

examples

• Sight is one of our five senses. tree →
• Owls have very good sight at night. tree →
• Stay in sight of your parents at the fair. tree →
• The rainbow was a beautiful sight. tree →
• We saw the sights of London. tree →
• The ship sailed out of sight. tree →
• Sailors sighted land after weeks at sea. tree →
• Looking at the Sun can damage your sight. tree →
• It was such a pretty sight! tree →

note

Homophones: «sight» (seeing), «site» (a place, or a website), «cite» (quote). Uncountable for the sense (good sight), countable for things seen (a sight). «Eyesight» = the ability to see. «Sighting» = seeing something rare (a whale sighting).

In the corpora

• Jumping spiders hunt by sight with two big front eyes; many see colour, and their main eyes can swivel inside the head.
• The animals rise only at night because darkness hides them from hunters that find food by sight near the surface.
• Cave crickets have very long legs and feelers because in the dark touch is more useful than sight.
• And the cartoon elephant that screams and jumps on a chair at the sight of a mouse?
• Toad: «Glorious, stirring sight! ...

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sight» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.