Толковый словарь английского языка - sight

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gesiht faculty or act of ~, thing seen; akin to Old High German gisiht ~, Old English sēon to see Date: before 12th century something that is seen ; spectacle, 2. a thing regarded as worth seeing, something ludicrous or disorderly in appearance , 3. a great number or quantity, a good deal ; lot , 4. the process, power, or function of seeing, mental or spiritual perception, mental view, 5. the act of looking at or beholding, inspection, perusal, view, glimpse, an observation to determine direction or position (as by a navigator), 6. a perception of an object by or as if by the eye , the range of vision , presentation of a note or draft to the maker or draftee ; demand, 8. a device that aids the eye in aiming or in finding the direction of an object, aspiration , II. verb Date: 1602 transitive verb to get or catch ~ of , to look at through or as if through a ~, to aim by means of ~s, 4. to equip with ~s, to adjust the ~s of, intransitive verb to take aim, to look carefully in a particular direction, III. adjective Date: 1801 based on recognition or comprehension without previous study , payable on presentation