Breech sight
() A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim. |
Fore-night
(n.) The evening between twilight and bedtime. |
Long-sight
(n.) Long-sightedness. |
Night
(n.) That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise |
Night
(n.) Darkness |
Night
(n.) Intellectual and moral darkness |
Night
(n.) A state of affliction |
Night
(n.) The period after the close of life |
Night
(n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep. |
Night-blooming
(a.) Blooming in the night. |
Night-eyed
(a.) Capable of seeing at night |
Night-faring
(a.) Going or traveling in the night. |
Second-sight
(n.) The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind |
Sight
(v. t.) The act of seeing |
Sight
(v. t.) The power of seeing |
Sight
(v. t.) The state of admitting unobstructed vision |
Sight
(v. t.) A spectacle |
Sight
(v. t.) The instrument of seeing |
Sight
(v. t.) Inspection |
Sight
(v. t.) Mental view |
Sight
(v. t.) A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained |
Sight
(v. t.) A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming. |
Sight
(v. t.) In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening. |
Sight
(v. t.) A great number, quantity, or sum |
Sight
(v. t.) To get sight of |
Sight
(v. t.) To look at through a sight |
Sight
(v. t.) To apply sights to |
Sight
(v. i.) To take aim by a sight. |
Sight-hole
(n.) A hole for looking through |
Sight-seeing
(a.) Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights |
Sight-seeing
(n.) The act of seeing sights |
Sight-seer
(n.) One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities. |
Sight-shot
(n.) Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. |
Twelfth-night
(n.) The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches. |
Vision
(v.) The act of seeing external objects |
Vision
(v.) The faculty of seeing |
Vision
(v.) That which is seen |
Vision
(v.) Especially, that which is seen otherwise than by the ordinary sight, or the rational eye |
Vision
(v.) Hence, something unreal or imaginary |
Vision
(v. t.) To see in a vision |
| one-night stand | a performance in one place on one night only |
nightlife
night life | the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.), a futile search for intelligent nightlife, in the summer the nightlife shifts to the dance clubs |
| night game | a game played under artificial illumination at night |
| nightlife night life | the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion |
| one-night stand | a brief sexual encounter lasting only for a single night, he ran through a series of loveless one-night stands |
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 |
| watch night | a devotional service (especially on New Year's Eve) |
| night-stop | a break in a journey for the night |
| night bird | any bird associated with night: owl, nightingale, nighthawk, etc |
| night raven | any bird that cries at night |
owl
bird of Minerva
bird of night
hooter | nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes |
| night lizard | small secretive nocturnal lizard of southwestern North America and Cuba, bear live young |
night snake
Hypsiglena torquata | nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico |
night heron
night raven | nocturnal or crepuscular herons |
blackrowned night heron
Nycticorax nycticorax | night heron of both Old and New Worlds |
yellowrowned night heron
Nyctanassa violacea | North American night heron |
battle sight
battlesight | an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges |
cabaret
nightclub
night club
club nightspot | a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink, don't expect a good meal at a cabaret, the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night, he played the drums at a jazz club |
gunsight
gun-sight | a sight used for aiming a gun |
| night bell | a doorbell to be used at night |
| night latch | doorlock operated by a knob on the inside and a key on the outside |
| night-light | light (as a candle or small bulb) that burns in a bedroom at night (as for children or invalids) |
| night-line | a fishing line with baited hooks left in the water to catch fish over night |
| open sight | rear gunsight having an open notch instead of a peephole or telescope |
| panoramic sight | gunsight (a telescopic device for an artillery piece) that can be rotated horizontally in a full circle |
| peep sight | rear gunsight having an adjustable eyepiece with a small aperture through which the front sight and the target are aligned |
| Saturday night special | a cheap handgun that is easily obtained |
| sight setting | the adjustment of a gunsight for elevation and windage on a particular range under favorable light conditions |
telescopic sight
telescope sight | gunsight consisting of a telescope on a firearm for use as a sight |
| sight ken | the range of vision, out of sight of land |
imagination imaginativeness
vision | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses, popular imagination created a world of demons, imagination reveals what the world could be |
sight
vision visual sense
visual modality | the ability to see, the visual faculty |
| achromatic vision | vision using the rods |
| binocular vision | vision involving the use of both eyes |
| central vision | vision using the fovea and parafovea, the middle part of the visual field |
color vision
chromatic vision
trichromacy | the normal ability to see colors |
| distance vision | vision for objects that afeet or more from the viewer |
| foveal vision | vision with the fovea |
| monocular vision | vision with only one eye |
| near vision | vision for objects feet or closer to the viewer |
night vision
night-sight
scotopic vision
twilight vision | the ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight) |
daylight vision
photopic vision | normal vision in daylight, vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived |
| peripheral vision | vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina |
stereoscopic vision
stereoscopy | three-dimensional vision produced by the fusion of two slightly different views of a scene on each retina |
| vision visual sensation | the perceptual experience of seeing, the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision, he had a visual sensation of intense light |
| vision | a vivid mental image, he had a vision of his own death |
| sight | an instance of visual perception, the sight of his wife brought him back to reality, the train was an unexpected sight |
visual field
field of vision
field of regard | all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment |
| sight | a range of mental vision, in his sight she could do no wrong |
| night letter | a cheaper form of telegram sent for delivery the next day |