different between sight vs panorama

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)

1. (in the singular) The ability to see.
2. 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.

3. 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; […]

4. 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.

5. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
6. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
7. (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

   • 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!"

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.
9. (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
10. 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)

1. (transitive) To register visually.
2. (transitive) To get sight of (something).

3. (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight.

4. (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

English

Etymology

From pan- (“all”) +? Ancient Greek ????? (hór?ma, “view”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæ.n???æ.m?/, /?pæ.n?????m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?

Noun

panorama (plural panoramas or panoramata)

1. An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.
2. A picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene.
3. (figuratively) A comprehensive survey.

Descendants

• German: Panorama

Translations

Albanian

Noun

panorama

1. plural of panoramë

Catalan

Noun

panorama m (plural panorames)

1. panorama

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English panorama, coined by Robert Barker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?.no??ra?.ma?/
• Hyphenation: pa?no?ra?ma
• Rhymes: -a?ma?

Noun

panorama n (plural panorama's, diminutive panoramaatje n)

1. panorama, vista

Derived terms

• panoramadak
• panoramadek

Related terms

• diorama

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.n?.?a.ma/

Noun

panorama m (plural panoramas)

1. panorama

Further reading

• “panorama” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

panorama m (plural panorami)

1. view, panorama

   Synonym: vista

2. outline

Derived terms

• panoramico

Anagrams

• paramano

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English panorama

Noun

panorama n (definite singular panoramaet, indefinite plural panorama or panoramaer, definite plural panoramaene)

1. a panorama

Derived terms

• panoramabilde
• panoramautsikt

References

• “panorama” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English panorama

Noun

panorama n (definite singular panoramaet, indefinite plural panorama, definite plural panoramaa)

1. a panorama

Derived terms

• panoramabilde, panoramabilete
• panoramautsikt

References

• “panorama” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.n??ra.ma/

Noun

panorama f

1. panorama
2. skyline

Declension

Derived terms

• panoramiczny

Further reading

• panorama in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

panorama m (plural panoramas)

1. panorama (unbroken view of an entire surrounding area)
2. panorama (picture representing a continuous scene)
3. (figuratively) panorama (comprehensive survey on a subject)

Derived terms

• panorâmico

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /panor??ma/
• Hyphenation: pa?no?ra?ma

Noun

panoráma f (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. panorama

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pano??ama/, [pa.no??a.ma]

Noun

panorama m (plural panoramas)

1. scenery
2. panorama
3. outlook

Related terms

• panorámico

Further reading

• “panorama” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.