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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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peer
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English piren (“to peer”), from or related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”). Or, possibly from a shortening of appear.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??/
- (General American) enPR: pîr, IPA(key): /pi?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: pier
Verb
peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)
- (intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
- c. 1696, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- […] I should be still
- Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind,
- Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads;
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, Part III, p. 17,[2]
- And strait the Sun was fleck’d with bars
- (Heaven’s mother send us grace)
- As if thro’ a dungeon grate he peer’d
- With broad and burning face.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter I, p. 10,[3]
- He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1914, Chapter 6, p. 65,[4]
- He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.
- c. 1696, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- (intransitive, obsolete) To come in sight; to appear.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 3,[5]
- And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
- So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
- 1611, Ben Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: Walter Burre, Act III,[6]
- See, how his gorget peeres aboue his gowne;
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 3,[5]
Derived terms
- overpeer
Translations
Noun
peer (plural peers)
- A look; a glance.
- 1970, William Crookes, T. A. Malone, George Shadbolt, The British journal of photography (volume 117, page 58)
- Blessed are those organisers who provide one-and-all with a name tag, for then the participants will chat together. A quick peer at your neighbour's lapel is much the simplest way to become introduced […]
- 1970, William Crookes, T. A. Malone, George Shadbolt, The British journal of photography (volume 117, page 58)
Etymology 2
From Middle English pere, per, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin p?r. Doublet of pair and par
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??/
- (General American) enPR: pîr, IPA(key): /pi?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: pier
Noun
peer (plural peers)
- Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).
- In song he never had his peer.
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening
- Shall they draw off to their privileged quarters, and consort only with their peers?
- Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).
- A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.
- a peer of the realm
- A comrade; a companion; an associate.
Translations
Verb
peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)
- To make equal in rank.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Heylin to this entry?)
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.
Derived terms
- peer-to-peer
Related terms
- peer assessment
- peer review, peer reviewed
- peer pressure
- peerless
- the Peers
Etymology 3
pee +? -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pi?.?/
- (General American) enPR: pîr, IPA(key): /pi.?/
Noun
peer (plural peers)
- (informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.
Anagrams
- pere, père
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch peer, from Middle Dutch p?re, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin pirum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???r/
Noun
peer (plural pere)
- pear
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch p?re, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin pirum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe?r/, [p??r]
- Hyphenation: peer
- Rhymes: -e?r
Noun
peer f (plural peren, diminutive peertje n)
- A pear, a fruit of the pear tree.
- A light bulb.
Derived terms
- handpeer
- muilpeer
- perensap
- perenwijn
- stoofpeer
Descendants
- Afrikaans: peer
Noun
peer m (plural peren, diminutive peertje n)
- A pear tree, Pyrus communis.
- 1911, H. Heukels, Kennis Der Natuur A. Leerboek der dierkunde, plantkunde en natuurkunde voor a.s. onderwijzers, vol. II "dierkunde", page 77.
- 1911, H. Heukels, Kennis Der Natuur A. Leerboek der dierkunde, plantkunde en natuurkunde voor a.s. onderwijzers, vol. II "dierkunde", page 77.
Anagrams
- reep
Middle English
Noun
peer
- Alternative form of pere (“peer”)
Adjective
peer
- Alternative form of pere (“equal”)
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pir/
Etymology 1
From Middle English pere (“pear”), from Old English pere, peru, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin pirum.
Noun
peer (plural peers)
- pear (fruit)
Derived terms
- peerie
Etymology 2
From Middle English piren (“to peer”).
Verb
peer (third-person singular present peers, present participle peerin, past peert, past participle peert)
- To peer.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin p?dere, present active infinitive of p?d?, from Proto-Italic *pezd? (“to fart”) from Proto-Indo-European *pesd- (“to fart”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe?e?/, [pe?e?]
Verb
peer (first-person singular present peo, first-person singular preterite peí, past participle peído)
- to break wind, to fart
- (reflexive) to break wind; fart
Conjugation
Related terms
- peerse
- pedo
- pedorrear
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