The noun sight has 8 senses (first 8 from tagged texts)
1. (17) sight -- (an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight")
2. (12) sight -- (anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights")
3. (6) sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality -- (the ability to see; the visual faculty)
4. (3) sight -- (a optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument)
5. (2) sight -- (a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong")
6. (2) sight, ken -- (the range of vision; "out of sight of land")
7. (2) view, survey, sight -- (the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited")
8. (1) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew -- ((often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty")
Overview of verb sight
The verb sight has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (4) sight -- (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge")