Word Finder - sighted

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To register visually.

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To get sight of (something).

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to sight land from a ship

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To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight.

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to sight a rifle or a cannon

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To take aim at.

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Having vision, not blind.

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(in combination) Having a particular kind of sight.

He was often sighted strutting down the roadside.

He sighted the land to the north of Kotelnyi and the land to the north of New Siberia (now Bennett Island).

Some French authorities confidently put forward a claim that Guillaume le Testu, of Provence, sighted the continent in 1531.

Some Cossacks of Dokhturov's detachment reported having sighted the French Guards marching along the road to Borovsk.

Finally he sighted heavily.

Again the wave moved as one when the three were sighted.

When the German squadron was sighted it would have been possible to fall back on the " Canopus," but this would have entailed the destruction of the " Otranto," which would have been overtaken by the enemy in two or three hours.

Sailing thence north-westward for many weeks, over a sea so calm that he named it El Mar pacifico, he sighted only two small islands.

There followed a call from Groucho, whose name Dean learned was Coleridge, telling of a report that the Boyd pair was sighted in Kansas, stopped for a tail light violation on Sunday afternoon.

Maori tradition is explicit as to the cause of the exodus from Samoa, gives the names of the canoes in which the journey was made and the time of year at which the coast of New Zealand was sighted.

Anticosti was sighted by Jacques Cartier in 1534, and named Assomption.

The PSA sighted Alaska as the cruise hot spot for 2004 with an increase of nearly 70 per cent in cruise passengers.

The Old Head of Kinsale, at the west of the harbour entrance, affords fine views of the coast, and is commonly the first British land sighted by ships bound from New York, &c., to Queenstown.

August Petermann expressed the opinion that Baffin may have sighted the west of Franz Josef Land in 1614, but the first actual discovery is due to Julius Payer, a lieutenant in the Austrian army, who was associated with Weyprecht in the second polar expedition fitted out by Count Wilczek on the ship "Tegetthof" in 1872.

Thus Zichy Land itself was resolved into a group of islands, and the outlying land sighted by Payer was found to be islands also.

The islands were sighted in 1543 by Ruy Lopez de Villalobos, who named them the Arrecifos.

It stretched towards Oates Land sighted by the " Terra Nova " of Scott's expedition.

The drift lasted for 264 days and no land was sighted, although a sledge journey was made westward to long.

Matters are so arranged by giving a torsion to the wire carrying the aluminium disk F that for a certain potential difference between the plates H and G, the movable part F comes into a definite sighted position, which is observed by means of a small lens.

If this distance is varied until the attracted disk comes into a definite sighted position as seen by observing the end of the index through the lens, then since the force f is constant, being due to the torque applied by the wire for a definite angle of twist, it follows that the difference of potential of the two plates varies as their distance.

The movable plate can be drawn down into a definite sighted position when a difference of potential is made between the two ' See Maxwell, Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (2nd ed.), i.

If W is the weight required to depress the attracted disk into the same sighted position when the plates are unelectrified and g is the acceleration of gravity, then the difference of potentials of the conductors tested is expressed by the formula V - V'=(d - d') /87 W where S denotes the area of the attracted disk.

Thence he pushed on round the coast, landed in Mossel Bay, then sailing up the south-east coast he sighted land again on the 25th of December 1497, and named it in honour of the day, Natal.

In 1553 Sir Hugh Willoughby sighted what was probably Goose Land; Richard Chancellor penetrated into the White Sea.

He sighted the Australian coast at Gippsland, Victoria, near Cape Everard, which he named Point Hicks, and sailed along the east coast of Australia as far north as Botany Bay, where he landed, and claimed possession of the continent on behalf of King George III.

In 1578 Sir Francis Drake first sighted the point which in 1616 was named Cape Hoorn (anglicized Horn) by the Dutch navigators Jacob Lemaire and Willem Cornelis Schouten (1615-1617).

Captain James Cook in March 17 78 sighted the coast of Oregon in the lat.

All the more remarkable spirits of the time, like prophets in Israel, denounced a tyranny which put Chamillart at the head of the finances because he played billiards well, and Villeroy in command of the armies although he was utterly untrustworthy; which sent the patriot Vauban into disgrace, banished from the court Catinat, the Pre Ia Pense, exiled to Cambrai the too clear sighted Fnelon, and suspected Racine of Jansenism and La Fontaine of independence.

Is such a picture less real than the picture which a sighted person has?

He used these terms to refer to the creatures that were sighted in Canada.

The fabled creature is sighted even in the modern day.

Sighted people can learn the Braille alphabet from its pages.

Your psychosis, depressions, murderous impulses, short sighted narrow minded and utterly primitive barbarism is tearing into me.

All dropped curb crossings that have been constructed since 1999 have tactile paving installed in order to help partially sighted people.

The stout vessel sailed o'er the mighty deep, and the passengers felt delighted, especially when an iceberg was sighted.

However, sighted players can also play as everyone is required to wear eyeshades.

The young are born fully furred, sighted and mobile.

Wherever possible, it is perhaps best for the blind or visually impaired student to dictate to a sighted helper.

The term partially sighted is replaced by the term sight impaired.

The ducks (with a distinctive logo on their base) have since been sighted in the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

A dog-walking elderly gentleman swore he sighted the much publicized blue van and the search swung to that area.

A fisher­man had thought he'd sighted a body in the bay, but it was too far away to confirm and, with night approaching, the shape was lost in the darkening swells.

On the 6th of October 1769 the coast of New Zealand was sighted, and two days later Cook cast anchor in Poverty Bay, so named from the inhospitality and hostility of the natives.

After voyaging westward for nearly three weeks, Cook, on the 19th of April 1770, sighted the eastern coast of Australia at a point which he named after his lieutenant, who discovered it, Point Hicks, and which modern geographers identify with Cape Everard.

Himilco, a contemporary of Hanno, was charged with an expedition along the west coast of Iberia northward, and as far as the uncertain references to this voyage can be understood, he seems to have passed the Bay of Biscay and possibly sighted the coast of England.

On the 1st of March the Dutch fleet sighted the island of Juan Fernandez; and, having crossed the Pacific, the explorers sailed along the north coast of New Guinea and arrived at the Moluccas on the 17th of September 1616.

The same mountains have been sighted by English explorers coming up from the south and are pronounced to be "very high."

It is generally considered that the Manua group was sighted by the Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen in 1722, and named by him the Baaumann islands after the captain of one of his ships.

On his second voyage Columbus sighted the island, to which he gave the name San Juan Bautista, and remained in its vicinity from the 17th to the 22nd of November 1493.

They had sighted the coast of Peloponnesus when a storm overtook them and drove them to the coast of Libya, where they were saved from a quicksand by the local nymphs.