sight

Noun

• (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
    
  • 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
    

• the act of looking or seeing or observing
  • he tried to get a better view of it
    
  • his survey of the battlefield was limited
    

• the range of vision
  • out of sight of land
    

• a range of mental vision
  • in his sight she could do no wrong
    

• the ability to see; the visual faculty

• anything that is seen
  • he was a familiar sight on the television
    
  • they went to Paris to see the sights
    

• an instance of visual perception
  • the sight of his wife brought him back to reality
    
  • the train was an unexpected sight
    

Verb

• take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)

• catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
  • he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  batch , view , survey , ken , vision , visual sense , visual modality , spy