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Grammar : Adj
Spell : sahy-tid
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsaɪ tɪd



Définition of sighted

Origin :
  • Old English sihð, gesiht, gesihð "thing seen; faculty of sight; aspect; vision; apparition," from Proto-Germanic *sekh(w)- (cf. Danish sigte, Swedish sigt, Middle Dutch sicht, Dutch zicht, Old High German siht, German Sicht, Gesicht), stem that also yielded Old English seon (see see (v.)), with noun suffix -th (2), later -t.
  • Verily, truth is sight. Therefore if two people should come disputing, saying, 'I have seen,' 'I have heard,' we should trust the one who says 'I have seen.' [Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 5.14.4]
  • Meaning "perception or apprehension by means of the eyes" is from early 13c. Meaning "device on a firearm to assist in aiming" is from 1580s. A "show" of something, hence, colloquially, "a great many; a lot" (late 14c.). Sight for sore eyes "welcome visitor" is attested from 1738; sight unseen "without previous inspection" is from 1892. Sight gag first attested 1944. Middle English had sighty (late 14c.) "visible, conspicuous; bright, shining; attractive, handsome;" c.1400 as "keen-sighted;" mid-15c. as "discerning" (cf. German sichtig "visible").
  • adj seen
Example sentences :
  • We sighted the range and hill seen by my brother, and reached it at sundown.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • In a minute his excited yapping; told that he had sighted his game and was in full chase.
  • Extract from : « Johnny Bear » by E. T. Seton
  • The submersible was sighted on July 1, 1915, by a French aeroplane.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various
  • Finally, only a lifetime or two after he hoped to see it, he sighted the ship again.
  • Extract from : « Satellite System » by Horace Brown Fyfe
  • Shortly after this he sighted a grove with a thick undergrowth.
  • Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
  • He had insisted that morning that the uhlans that they sighted were some of Bazaine's troops.
  • Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
  • At nightfall Coqueville sighted a ship in distress driven by the wind.
  • Extract from : « The Fte At Coqueville » by Emile Zola
  • Where Madame Butterfly hears that Pinkerton's ship has been sighted.
  • Extract from : « The Education of Eric Lane » by Stephen McKenna
  • The foremost animals had been charging a sighted human enemy.
  • Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster
  • All days, Christmas or any other, are alike to Sol when there's a dollar to be sighted with a spyglass.
  • Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln

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