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SIGHTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Able to see
Classified under:
Similar:
argus-eyed; hawk-eyed; keen-sighted; lynx-eyed; quick-sighted; sharp-eyed; sharp-sighted (having very keen vision)
clear-sighted (having sharp clear vision)
seeing (having vision, not blind)
Antonym:
blind (unable to see)
Derivation:
sightedness (normal use of the faculty of vision)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb sight
Context examples:
“I sighted the old boat arter dark, and the light a-shining in the winder. When I come nigh and looked in through the glass, I see the faithful creetur Missis Gummidge sittin' by the fire, as we had fixed upon, alone. I called out, “Doen't be afeerd! It's Dan'l!” and I went in.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
His mind, now disengaged from the cares which had pressed on him at first, was at leisure to find the Grants and their young inmates really worth visiting; and though infinitely above scheming or contriving for any the most advantageous matrimonial establishment that could be among the apparent possibilities of any one most dear to him, and disdaining even as a littleness the being quick-sighted on such points, he could not avoid perceiving, in a grand and careless way, that Mr. Crawford was somewhat distinguishing his niece—nor perhaps refrain (though unconsciously) from giving a more willing assent to invitations on that account.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Over a period of almost seven years, Cassini’s cameras surveyed the south polar terrain of the small moon, a unique geological basin renowned for its four prominent "tiger stripe” fractures and the geysers of tiny icy particles and water vapor first sighted there nearly 10 years ago. The result of the survey is a map of 101 geysers, each erupting from one of the tiger stripe fractures, and the discovery that individual geysers are coincident with small hot spots. These relationships pointed the way to the geysers’ origin.###!!!###
(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)
This man, who was old and dim-sighted, put on his spectacles to behold me better; at which I could not forbear laughing very heartily, for his eyes appeared like the full moon shining into a chamber at two windows.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The sudden acquisition of ten thousand pounds was the most remarkable charm of the young lady to whom he was now rendering himself agreeable; but Elizabeth, less clear-sighted perhaps in this case than in Charlotte's, did not quarrel with him for his wish of independence.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The next moment, in a flashing vision of multitudinous detail, he sighted the whole sea of life's nastiness that he had known and voyaged over and through, and he forgave her for not understanding the story.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This land that we have sighted is the place we have been sailing for.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It was now half-past five, and half-an-hour later, when the last of the day lost itself in a dim and furious twilight, I sighted a third boat.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Not too strongly for the offence—but far, far too strongly to issue from any feeling softer than upright justice and clear-sighted goodwill.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Now, had not the moose come down to drink, had not Mit-sah been steering out of the course because of the snow, had not Kloo-kooch sighted the moose, and had not Grey Beaver killed it with a lucky shot from his rifle, all subsequent things would have happened differently.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
