Noun
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(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"
- good deal - great deal - quite a little - tidy sum -
the act of looking or seeing or observing
"he tried to get a better view of it"
"his survey of the battlefield was limited"
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the range of vision
"out of sight of land"
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a range of mental vision
"in his sight she could do no wrong"
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the ability to see
the visual faculty
- visual sense - visual modality -
anything that is seen
"he was a familiar sight on the television"
"they went to Paris to see the sights"
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an instance of visual perception
"the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"
"the train was an unexpected sight"
Verb
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take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
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catch sight of
to perceive with the eyes
"he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"