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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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aspect
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aspectus (“look, sight; appearance”), from aspici? (“see; catch sight of; inspect”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + speci? (“look, look at, behold; observe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æsp?kt/
- Hyphenation: as?pect
Noun
aspect (plural aspects)
- Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
- Synonym: facet
- The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
- The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
- A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
- One's appearance or expression. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: appearance, look, blee
- Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
- Prospect; outlook.
- 1643, John Evelyn, Diary
- This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended ; nor does it deceive us ; for it is handsomely built ...
- 1643, John Evelyn, Diary
- (grammar) A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding. [from 19th c.]
- (astrology) The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope. [from 14th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X, lines 656 to 664.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X, lines 656 to 664.
- (religion, mythology) The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.
- (obsolete) The act of looking at something; gaze. [14th-19th c.]
- 1590, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, 924:
- The tradition is no less ancient, that the basilisk killeth by aspect ; and that the wolf, if he see a man first, by aspect striketh a man hoarse.
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 1:
- ... his aspect was bent on the ground with an appearance of deep dejection, which might be almost construed into apathy, ...
- 1590, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, 924:
- (obsolete) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
- 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth, Vol 1, Chapter IX.
- They are both in my judgment the image or picture of a great Ruine, and have the true aspect of a World lying in its rubbish.
- 1855, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. IV, Chapter XVIII
- Three days later he opened the parliament. The aspect of affairs was, on the whole, cheering.
- 1684, Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth, Vol 1, Chapter IX.
- (programming) In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
- (rail transport) The visual indication of a colour light (or mechanical) signal as displayed to the driver. With colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green.
Hyponyms
- (grammar): grammatical aspect, aorist aspect, iterative aspect, perfective aspect, imperfective aspect, semelfactive aspect, progressive aspect, perfect aspect; lexical aspect
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- (grammar): aspectuality
- (grammar): Aktionsart, aktionsart
Verb
aspect (third-person singular simple present aspects, present participle aspecting, simple past and past participle aspected)
- (astrology, of a planet) To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.
- (Wicca) To channel a divine being.
- (obsolete) To look at.
References
- aspect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Grammatical aspect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “aspect”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- aspect at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Glossary of United Kingdom railway terms on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- epacts, escap't
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch aspect, from Middle French aspect, from Latin aspectus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??sp?kt/, /?s?p?kt/
- Hyphenation: as?pect
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
aspect n (plural aspecten, diminutive aspectje n)
- aspect, element
- aspect, appearance
- (linguistics) aspect (grammatical category)
Derived terms
- aspectueel
Descendants
- Afrikaans: aspek
- ? Indonesian: aspek
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aspectus. The grammatical sense is a semantic loan from Russian ??? (vid).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /as.p?/
- Rhymes: -?
- Homophone: aspects
Noun
aspect m (plural aspects)
- aspect
- (grammar) aspect (grammatical quality of a verb)
Further reading
- “aspect” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French aspect, Latin aspectus.
Noun
aspect n (plural aspecte)
- aspect, look
Synonyms
- înf??i?are
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