Main entry: view, sight, survey
Definition: the act of looking or seeing or observing
Usage: he tried to get a better view of it; his survey of the battlefield was limited
Definition: the range of vision
Usage: out of sight of land
Main entry: sight, vision, visual modality, visual sense
Definition: the ability to see; the visual faculty
Main entry: sight
Definition: an instance of visual perception
Usage: the sight of his wife brought him back to reality; the train was an unexpected sight
Main entry: sight
Definition: a range of mental vision
Usage: in his sight she could do no wrong
Main entry: sight
Definition: anything that is seen
Usage: he was a familiar sight on the television; they went to Paris to see the sights
Main entry: batch, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, passel, tidy sum, deal, spate, sight, slew, stack, heap, hatful, good deal, great deal, wad, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, lot, mass, mess, mickle, flock
Definition: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Usage: 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
Definition: catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
Usage: he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge
Main entry: sight
Definition: take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)