sight in WordNet English dictionary

1. (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"
   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  sight  slew  spate  stack  tidy sum  wad 
   
2. the range of vision
   "out of sight of land"
   sight  ken 
   
3. the act of looking or seeing or observing
   "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"
   view  survey  sight 
   
4. the ability to see; the visual faculty
   sight  vision  visual sense  visual modality 
   
5. an instance of visual perception
   "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight"
   sight 
   
6. a range of mental vision
   "in his sight she could do no wrong"
   sight 
   
7. anything that is seen
   "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights"
   sight 
   

1. catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
   "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge"
   spy  sight 
   
2. take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
   sight