Sight
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- (COLLOQUIAL) His clothes are a sight អ្វីៗដែលអាក្រក់មើល
noun
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- (the faculty of seeing ability to see, seeing or being seen, a thing seen or visible or worth seeing a display, range of vision, opinion, something seen, a person or thigh not pleasant to look at, aim or an observation taken as with a sextant gun, a large amount, power of seeing something startling; frightening or beautiful to be seen, device on a gun or optical instrument to help in guiding the aim or eye) power of sight ចក្ខុវិស័យ, beautiful sight ទេសភាព, in sight of (land) មើលឃើញ, in sight of (a solution) ជិតហើយ, rifle sight ចំណុចតម្រង់, គោលកាំភ្លើង
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- (បច្ចេកទេស) ចក្ខុវិស័យ, ទស្សនវិស័យ
verb — past tense: sighted ; past participle: sighted ; present participle: sighting ;
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- ឃើញតម្រង់កាំភ្លើង
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- (TRANSITIVE) (To catch sight of; to see) sight land ឃើញ, sight a gun តម្រង់
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
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- A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming.
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- The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
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- The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.
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- The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight.
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- A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.
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- The instrument of seeing; the eye.
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- A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.
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- A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant.
verb — past tense: sighted ; past participle: sighted ; present participle: sighting ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) 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 or the like, the open space, the opening.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To take aim by a sight.
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- (TRANSITIVE) Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.
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- (TRANSITIVE) Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.
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- display, scene, spectacle, view, vision