What is the meaning of sight?

noun

• An instance of visual perception.
  • usage: "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
• Anything that is seen.
  • usage: "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
• The ability to see; the visual faculty.
  • synonyms: vision, visual sense, visual modality
• A range of mental vision.
  • usage: "in his sight she could do no wrong"
• The range of vision.
  • usage: "out of sight of land"
  • synonyms: ken
• The act of looking or seeing or observing.
  • usage: "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"
  • synonyms: view, survey
• Often followed by `of'. ( a large number or amount or extent)
  • usage: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
  • synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

verb

• Catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes.
  • usage: "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"
  • synonyms: spy
• Take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device. ).