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/sˈaɪtɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Sighting n. A. & n. from Sight, v. t.

Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.

verb

Sight v. t. (past & past part. sighted; pres. part. sighting)

To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.

To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.

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

Sight v. i. (Mil.) To take aim by a sight.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sighting" Quotes from Famous Books

... calculated to meet the extreme possibilities of slowness on the part of the Spanish division, if coming that way; afterwards they were to go to a given place, and report. It may be added that they remained their full time, and yet missed by a hair's breadth sighting the enemy. The captain of one of them, the Harvard, afterwards told the writer that he believed another stretch to the south would have rewarded him with success. The case was one in which blame could be imputed ...

— Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles • Alfred T. Mahan

... He adjusted his sighting rings while the sergeant major glided away. Moving around on a no-weight world was more like skating than walking. A regular walk would have lifted Koa into space with every step. Of course, the asteroid had some gravity, but so little that it ...

— Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet • Harold Leland Goodwin

... their condition even more than his companions. He had been indulging in the hope of sighting Jamaica in the course of a few days: and now he could not tell when he might get back to that island. He calculated, too, that the Lilly would have returned there, and that his friends would have become very ...

— Sunshine Bill • W H G Kingston

... lapse of less than ten minutes from the first sighting of the Isis screaming toward the spaceport. The guard-ship had been destroyed and the cargo-ship which seemed to flee had apparently been destroyed. When someone had leisure to think, it would appear that the cargo-boat's crew ...

— Talents, Incorporated • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... saw the men from Tailholt Mountain, sometimes merely sighting them in the distance, and, again, meeting them face to face at some watering place or on the range. When it happened that Nick Cambert was thus forced to keep up a show of friendly relations with the Cross-Triangle, the few commonplaces of the country were exchanged, but always the ...

— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright

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