sight

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 sīt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The ability to see. countable,singular,uncountable
    — He is losing his sight and now can barely read.
  2. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view. countable,uncountable
    — to gain sight of land
  3. Something seen. countable,uncountable
    — He's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights; […]
  4. Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad. countable,in-plural,often,uncountable
    — We went to London and saw all the sights – Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and so on.
  5. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target. countable,in-plural,often,uncountable
  6. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained. countable,uncountable
    — the sight of a quadrant
  7. a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative. colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — a sight of money
  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. countable,uncountable
  9. The instrument of seeing; the eye. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Why cloude they not their ſights perpetually,
  10. Mental view; opinion; judgment. countable,uncountable
    — In their sight it was harmless.
动词 v.
  1. To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually. transitive
    — I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore.
  2. To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.; To observe through, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating. transitive
    — Next a point of known elevation, preferably one of the triangulation stations, is sighted; the vertical angle is read and the horizontal distance is scaled from the point of the setup on the map to the point sighted.
  3. To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of. transitive
    — to sight a rifle or a cannon
  4. To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight. intransitive,transitive
    — Jim braced the gun and sighted, tried to pull the trigger. Beside him a body collapsed, limp. It was Max. A shot had gone through his brain. Jim stared down at him, numb with horror.

词形变化

sights plural sicht alternative,pronunciation-spelling sights present,singular,third-person sighting participle,present sighted participle,past sighted past sicht alternative,pronunciation-spelling

词汇关系

近义词
see espy glimpse spot
衍生词
a damn sight a fuck sight at first sight at short sight at sight at the sight of backsight barleycorn sight bill of sight blindsight bombsight boresight bore sight by sight can't stand the sight of catch sight of day-sight daysight desight eye sight far sight farsight far-sighted foresight get out of my sight globe sight gunsight heave in sight heave into sight hidden in plain sight hide in plain sight hindsight in one's sight in plain sight insight in sight keep sight of leaf sight line of sight line-of-sight long sight long-sighted lose sight of love at first sight mindsight mouse-sight near sight near-sighted not a pretty sight nowhere in sight old sight on sight onsight out of one's sight out of sight out of sight is out of mind out of sight, out of mind outsight outta sight oversight oversightly point of sight pyramid sight rearsight second sight short sight short-sighted sight bite sight cheque sight draft sighten sight for sore eyes sightful sight gag sight glass sightholder sighthole sighthound sight in sightless sightline sightloss sightly sightproof sight radius sight read sight-read sight-reader sight rhyme sightscreen sight-seeing sightseeing sightseer sight sing sightsman sight to behold sight-translate sight translation sight triangle sight unseen sightwise sight word sightworthy slant sight supersight take a sight telescopic sight time sight missight undersight unsight resight sightability sightable sighter unsightable
相关词
see vision

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sighte, from Old English sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti (“seeing, sight”), equivalent to see + -t.
Cognates
Cognate with Cimbrian gazicht (“sight, vision; pupil”), Dutch gezicht (“face; sight, vision”), zicht (“sight, vision”), German Gesicht (“face; sight, vision”), Sicht (“view; sight; visibility”), Luxembourgish Gesiicht (“face”), Siicht (“view; sight”), Yiddish געזיכט (gezikht, “face”), Danish sigt (“sight; visibility”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk sikt (“visibility”), Swedish sikt (“visibility”), sikte (“sight”).
词源 2
From Middle English sighte, from Old English sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti (“seeing, sight”), equivalent to see + -t.
Cognates
Cognate with Cimbrian gazicht (“sight, vision; pupil”), Dutch gezicht (“face; sight, vision”), zicht (“sight, vision”), German Gesicht (“face; sight, vision”), Sicht (“view; sight; visibility”), Luxembourgish Gesiicht (“face”), Siicht (“view; sight”), Yiddish געזיכט (gezikht, “face”), Danish sigt (“sight; visibility”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk sikt (“visibility”), Swedish sikt (“visibility”), sikte (“sight”).
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