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thigh
English
Etymology
From Middle English thigh, thegh, thi?, the?he, þigh, þy?h, from Old English þ?oh, þ?oh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuh? (compare West Frisian tsjea, Dutch dij, Middle High German diech, Icelandic þjó), from Proto-Indo-European *tewk- (compare Irish tóin (“hind, rump”), Lithuanian táukas (“fat”), Russian ??? (tuk, “animal fat”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
Noun
thigh (plural thighs)
- The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. [from 8th c.]
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:
- I coniure thee by Rosalines bright eyes, By her High forehead, and her Scarlet lip, By her Fine foote, Straight leg, and Quiuering thigh, And the Demeanes, that there Adiacent lie, That in thy likenesse thou appeare to vs.
- 1800, Jane Austen, letter, 8 Nov 1800:
- About ten days ago, in cocking a pistol in the guard-room at Marcau, he accidentally shot himself through the Thigh.
- 1991, Kathy Lette, The Llama Parlour:
- ‘Why not pay up now, kiddo?’ he suggested magnanimously, patting me on the thigh.
- 2011, The Guardian, 31 Mar 2011:
- The 23-year-old was substituted in the 75th minute of France's goalless friendly draw with Croatia on Tuesday after suffering an injury to his thigh.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:
- That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect. [from 14th c.]
- 2009, Fred Thompson, Grillin' with Gas:
- Add the chicken thighs, close the bag, and squish the marinade to coat the chicken.
- 2011, Ian Sample, The Guardian, 23 Feb 2011:
- The newly discovered dinosaur Brontomerus mcintoshi may have used its huge muscular thighs to kick predators and rivals.
- 2009, Fred Thompson, Grillin' with Gas:
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Hight, hight
Irish
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /h??/
- (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /hi?/
Noun
thigh
- Lenited form of tigh.
Middle English
Noun
thigh (plural thighes)
- Alternative spelling of þigh (“thigh”)
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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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