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prospect
English
Etymology
From Latin prospectus, past participle of prospicere (“to look forward”), from pro (“before, forward”) + specere, spicere (“to look, to see”), equivalent to pro- +? -spect
Pronunciation
- (noun)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??sp?kt/
- (General American) enPR: präs?p?kt, IPA(key): /?p??sp?kt/
- (verb)
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?-sp?kt?, IPA(key): /p???sp?kt/
- (General American) enPR: präs?p?kt, IPA(key): /?p??sp?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Hyphenation: pros?pect
Noun
prospect (plural prospects)
- The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
- A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
- A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
- Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
- Their prospect was toward the south.
- The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
- a very ill prospect of a future state
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life?
- The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
- A hope; a hopeful.
- (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
- (sales) A potential client or customer.
- (music) The façade of an organ.
Translations
Verb
prospect (third-person singular simple present prospects, present participle prospecting, simple past and past participle prospected)
- (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
- (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
Translations
Anagrams
- croppest
Romanian
Etymology
From German Prospekt
Noun
prospect n (plural prospecte)
- brochure
Declension
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sight
English
Etymology
From Middle English si?ht, si?t, siht, from Old English siht, sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti, equivalent to see +? -th. Cognate with Scots sicht, Saterland Frisian Sicht, West Frisian sicht, Dutch zicht, German Low German Sicht, German Sicht, Danish sigte, Swedish sikte.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?t
- enPR: s?t, IPA(key): /sa?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophones: cite, site
Noun
sight (countable and uncountable, plural sights)
- (in the singular) The ability to see.
- The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
- And when hee had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken vp, and a cloud receiued him out of their sight.
- Something seen.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato (author), Sophist, 236d:
- He's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights; […]
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato (author), Sophist, 236d:
- Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
- And Moses saide, I will nowe turne aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion
- They never saw a sight so fair.
- A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
- (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
- A nombre of twenty sterres bright,
Which is to sene a wonder sight
- A nombre of twenty sterres bright,
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2
- "If your mother put you in the pit at twelve, it's no reason why I should do the same with my lad."
- "Twelve! It wor a sight afore that!"
- 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.
- (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
- Mental view; opinion; judgment.
- That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Synonyms
- (ability to see): sense of sight, vision
- (something seen): view
- (aiming device): scope, peep sight
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
sight (third-person singular simple present sights, present participle sighting, simple past and past participle sighted)
- (transitive) To register visually.
- (transitive) To get sight of (something).
- (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight.
- (transitive) To take aim at.
Synonyms
- (visually register): see
- (get sight of): espy, glimpse, spot
- (take aim): aim at, take aim at
Derived terms
- resight
Translations
See also
- see
- vision
Anagrams
- ghits, thigs, tighs
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