A sight for sore eyes

Definition

sight /saÇt/ n ၁။ [U] အျမင္အာ႐ံု။ မ်က္စိ။ lose one's sight မ်က္စိကြယ္သည္။ ❍ have good/poor sight and hearing ❍ The disease has affected her sight. ၂။ [U] ~ of sth/sb ျမင္ရျခင္း။ ေတြ႕ျခင္း။ After ten days at sea we had our first sight of land. ❍ faint at the sight of blood. ၃။ [U] ျမင္ကြင္း။ မ်က္စိေအာက္။ မ်က္ေမွာက္။ She looked around for help but there was no one in sight. ❍ He ate everything in sight. ❍ The train came round the bend and into sight. ❍ Put the parcel in the drawer out of sight. ❍ They walked until they were out of sight of the house. ❍ You must keep out of sight (ie stay where you cannot be seen). ❍ The plane disappeared from sight. ❍ She never let the child out of her sight. ❍ ‘Get out of my sight (ie Go away)!’ he said angrily. ❍ ( fig ) The end of the project is almost in/within sight. ၄။ (က) [C] ျမင္ကြင္း။ ႐ႈခင္း။ a museum recreating the sights and sounds of wartime Britain ❍ The flowers are a lovely sight in spring. ❍ Homeless people are now a familiar sight on our streets. ❍ Victoria Station was a welcome sight to me after my long journey. (ခ) sights [pl] ၾကည့္႐ႈစရာ။ ႐ႈခင္း။ see the sights ❍ If you come to Edinburgh I'll show you the sights. ၅။ a sight [sing] ( infml ) ႐ုပ္။ ပံု။ What a sight you look in those clothes! ၆။ [C usu pl ] (ေသနတ္၊ အေျမာက္ စသည္တြင္)ခ်ိန္သီးႏွင့္ခ်ိန္ခြက္။ မွန္ေျပာင္း စသည္ ဆိုက္။ ခ်ိန္ကြက္။ the sights of a rifle ❍ have sb/sth in one's sights. v ေတြ႕သည္။ ျမင္သည္။ After twelve days at sea, we sighted land. ❏ at/on sight [ IDM ] ေတြ႕သည္ႏွင့္တစ္ၿပိဳင္နက္။ Soldiers were ordered to shoot on sight anybody trying to enter the building. ❏ hate , be sick of , etc the sight of sb/sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၾကည့္မရႏိုင္ျဖစ္သည္။ မ်က္စိေနာက္သည္။ I can't stand the sight of him! ❍ My car breaks down so often that I'm beginning to hate the sight of it. ❏ in the sight of sb/in sb's sight [ IDM ] ( fml ) အျမင္တြင္။ All men and women are equal in the sight of God. ❏ out of sight , out of mind [ IDM ] ( saying ) ကြယ္လွ်င္ ေမ့သည္။ ❏ raise/lower one's sights [ IDM ] တိုး၍၊ ေလွ်ာ့၍ ေမွ်ာ္မွန္း သည္။ If they can't afford a big house, they'll just have to lower their sights a little. ❏ set one's sights on sth/doing sth [ IDM ] ေဇာက္ခ်၍ ႀကိဳးပမ္းသည္။ မ်က္ျခည္ျပတ္မခံဘဲ မရမေန အားထုတ္သည္။ She's set her sights on winning the championship. ❍ Tom's got his sights set on a career in acting. ❏ a (damn , etc) sight better , etc (than…) ; a (damn , etc) sight too good, etc [ IDM ] ( infml ) မ်ားစြာသာလြန္ …သည္။ …လြန္းအားႀကီးသည္။ This car's a (darned) sight better than my old one. ❍ It's a (jolly) sight too expensive. ❏ sighted adj မ်က္စိျမင္ေသာ။ the blind and partially sighted. ❏ -sighted (in compound adjs ) (အနီး၊ အေဝး စသည္) ျမင္ေသာ။ short-/long-/far-sighted. ❏ a sight for sore eyes [ IDM ] ( infml ) မ်က္စိေအးစရာ။ You're a sight for sore eyes — I thought you'd gone for good! ❏ sighting n ေတြ႕ျခင္း။ ျမင္ေၾကာင္း။ several reported sightings of the escaped prisoner ❍ the first sighting of a new star. ❏ sight-read v အစိမ္းသက္သက္ေတးကို ဂီတသေကၤတ ၾကည့္ကာမွ်ျဖင့္ တန္း၍ ဆိုသည္၊ တီးသည္။ sight-reading n [U] ❏ sight unseen [ IDM ] မျမင္ဖူးဘဲ ။ They bought the car sight unseen.

Examples

1. Wolf spiders hunt mainly by sight.
2. I’m having laser treatment to improve my sight.
3. He has lost 75 per cent of his sight in his right eye.
4. People with poor sight
5. [sight of] : I can’t stand the sight of blood.
6. [at first sight] : It was love at first sight
7. and they got married two weeks later.
8. [know someone by sight] : I don’t know him personally
9. but I know him by sight.
10. [on sight] : The captain ordered us to shoot any strangers on sight.
11. [disappear from sight] : The rocket disappeared from sight.
12. [hidden from sight] : Her hands were hidden from sight beneath the blanket.
13. [within sight of something] : The ship sank within sight of the harbour.
14. [catch sight of someone/something] : As she stood up she caught sight of her reflection in the mirror.
15. [see the sights] : We enjoyed seeing the sights of San Francisco.
16. [the sights and sounds] : Experience the sights and sounds of Victorian London.
17. Windmills are a common sight in this part of the country.
18. A rare/wonderful sight
19. The shop was quite a sight after the flood.
20. [set/fix your sights on something] : The team has set its sights on the national championship.
21. [have your sights set on something] : She clearly has her sights set on a top job.
22. [lower your sights] : You should lower your sights and accept less money.