Talk:sight
Add topic- The translations are more than enough now. Your request is incontestably obsolete. Bogorm 19:08, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
Removed treq tag. DCDuring TALK 20:59, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
"Stay out of our sight!"
[edit]In what sense would or could the term "sight" be in a phrase like "Stay out of our sight"? --Apisite (talk) 22:08, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
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(Verb) sight
- (transitive) To register visually.
- (transitive) To get sight of (something).
- to sight land from a ship
I do not see a difference between these two senses. The lookout up in the crow’s nest cannot get sight of land unless they register it visually, and when they register visually that there is land ahead, they did sight land. Or is there some intended distinction that I didn’t get? (I’m also inclined to make that which was sighted the subject of the intransitive verb register; the uses above feel ungrammatical to me.) --Lambiam 11:40, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
- Merged in the process of cleaning up the entry more generally. - -sche (discuss) 01:49, 25 July 2022 (UTC)