sights
景点,风景,景观,景点介绍
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Definitions
- 1
- : the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- : an act, fact, or instance of seeing.
- : one's range of vision on some specific occasion: Land is in sight.
- : a view; glimpse.
- : mental perception or regard; judgment.
- : something seen or worth seeing; spectacle: the sights of London.
- : Informal. something unusual, surprising, shocking, or distressing: They were a sight after the fight.
- : Commerce. presentation of a bill of exchange: a draft payable at two months after sight.a showing of goods, especially gems, held periodically for wholesalers.
- : Older Use. a multitude; great deal: It's a sight better to work than to starve.
- : an observation taken with a surveying, navigating, or other instrument to ascertain an exact position or direction.
- : any of various mechanical or optical viewing devices, as on a firearm or surveying instrument, for aiding the eye in aiming.
- : Obsolete. skill; insight.
Phrases
- sight for sore eyes, a
- sight unseen
- at first blush (sight)
- at sight
- can't stand the sight of
- catch sight of
- heave into sight
- in sight
- know by sight
- lose sight of
- love at first sight
- lower one's sights
- on sight
- out of sight
- raise one's sights
- second sight
- see the sights
- set one's sights on
- twenty-twenty hindsight
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Now Jeff Bezos has focused his sights on populating distant galaxies.
Many of the women also claimed they were in emotionally vulnerable states when Cosby allegedly set his sights on them.
I was with a reporter, Lenny Bernstein, whom she had caught in her sights.
An international brand is in her five-year plan, and most things this young designer sets her sights on tend to come true.
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg already had the gun lobby in his sights.
This reading secures scarcely anything more than a succession of sights to the eye or sounds to the ear.
MacRae's seat, stone-marker, and aboriginal spearhead; the three lined up like the sights of a modern rifle.
This was his first journey into the country, and the many strange sights drew exclamations of surprise and wonder from him.
Drunkards are not frequent sights in the Quarter; and yet when these people do get drunk, they become as irresponsible as maniacs.
He had come up from Nancy that morning, and had since occupied the time in strolling about seeing the sights of the little place.