Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sight
Participle: sighted
Gerund: sighting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sight |
| you | sight |
| he;she;it | sights |
| we | sight |
| you | sight |
| they | sight |
Perfect
| I | have sighted |
| you | have sighted |
| he;she;it | has sighted |
| we | have sighted |
| you | have sighted |
| they | have sighted |
Past
| I | sighted |
| you | sighted |
| he;she;it | sighted |
| we | sighted |
| you | sighted |
| they | sighted |
Pluperfect
| I | had sighted |
| you | had sighted |
| he;she;it | had sighted |
| we | had sighted |
| you | had sighted |
| they | had sighted |
Future
| I | will sight |
| you | will sight |
| he;she;it | will sight |
| we | will sight |
| you | will sight |
| they | will sight |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sighted |
| you | will have sighted |
| he;she;it | will have sighted |
| we | will have sighted |
| you | will have sighted |
| they | will have sighted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sight |
| you | sight |
| he;she;it | sight |
| we | sight |
| you | sight |
| they | sight |
Perfect
| I | have sighted |
| you | have sighted |
| he;she;it | have sighted |
| we | have sighted |
| you | have sighted |
| they | have sighted |
Imperfect
| I | sighted |
| you | sighted |
| he;she;it | sighted |
| we | sighted |
| you | sighted |
| they | sighted |
Pluperfect
| I | had sighted |
| you | had sighted |
| he;she;it | had sighted |
| we | had sighted |
| you | had sighted |
| they | had sighted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sight |
| you | would sight |
| he;she;it | would sight |
| we | would sight |
| you | would sight |
| they | would sight |
Perfect
| I | would have sighted |
| you | would have sighted |
| he;she;it | would have sighted |
| we | would have sighted |
| you | would have sighted |
| they | would have sighted |
Imperative
| you | sight |
| we | Let's sight |
| you | sight |
Verbs conjugated like 'sight'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sight'
dight,
fight,
hight,
light,
night,
right,
sigh,
slight,
spight,
stight,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- take aim
- take aim
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English sighte, from Old English sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti (“seeing, sight”), equivalent to see + -t.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Cimbrian gazicht (“sight, vision; pupil”), Dutch gezicht (“face; sight, vision”), zicht (“sight, vision”), German Gesicht (“face; sight, vision”), Sicht (“view; sight; visibility”), Luxembourgish Gesiicht (“face”), Siicht (“view; sight”), Yiddish געזיכט (gezikht, “face”), Danish sigt (“sight; visibility”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk sikt (“visibility”), Swedish sikt (“visibility”), sikte (“sight”).
Sample Sentences
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I was on my way to the door, but all at once, through the fog in my head, I began to sight one reef that I hadn't paid any attention to afore. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
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to sight land from a ship
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Next a point of known elevation, preferably one of the triangulation stations, is sighted; the vertical angle is read and the horizontal distance is scaled from the point of the setup on the map to the point sighted. [1912, John Herbert Farrell, Alfred Joseph Moses, Practical Field Geology, page 30:]
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to sight a rifle or a cannon
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Jim braced the gun and sighted, tried to pull the trigger. Beside him a body collapsed, limp. It was Max. A shot had gone through his brain. Jim stared down at him, numb with horror. [2005 August 2, C. J. Cherryh, The Deep Beyond, Penguin, →ISBN:]
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So I sighted the deer with my .30—30 and fired at him. The bullet hit about ten yards below the deer. I realized that I had a problem with the gun so I aimed about ten yards above the deer as he was running and he dropped dead on the [spot]. [2009, James Wright, FBI: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity : an Autobiography, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 27:]
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This buck was finally mine. I had spent hours shooting at moving targets with that rifle and there was no way I could miss. I raised my gun and sighted through the scope. [2010 October 6, Bryce M. Towsley, Gunsmithing Made Easy: Projects for the Home Gunsmith, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., →ISBN:]