Scrutinize vs Sight - What's the difference?
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To examine something with great care.
* Ayliffe
* G. W. Cable
To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.
(in the singular) The ability to see.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
* Bible, Acts i. 9
Something seen.
* 2005 , Lesley Brown (translator), :
* He's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights ;
Something worth seeing; a spectacle.
* Bible, Exodus iii. 3
* Spenser
A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
* Shakespeare
a great deal, a lot; (frequently used to intensify a comparative).
* Gower
* 1913 ,
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, the open space, the opening.
(obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
* Shakespeare
Mental view; opinion; judgment.
* Bible, Luke xvi. 15
To register visually.
To get sight of (something).
* , chapter=4
, title= To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight.
To take aim at.
Scrutinize is a related term of sight.
In lang=en terms the difference between scrutinize and sight
is that scrutinize is to audit accounts etc in order to verify them while sight is to take aim at.As verbs the difference between scrutinize and sight
is that scrutinize is to examine something with great care while sight is to register visually.As a noun sight is
(in the singular) the ability to see.scrutinize
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Alternative forms
* scrutinise (Commonwealth)Verb
(en-verb)- to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals
- whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize
- Those pronounced him youngest who scrutinized his face the closest.
sight
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Noun
- Thy sight is young, / And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.
- O loss of sight , of thee I most complain!
- to gain sight of land
- A cloud received him out of their sight .
- You really look a sight in that silly costume!
- Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight , why the bush is not burnt.
- They never saw a sight so fair.
- the sight of a quadrant
- their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel
- a sight of money
- This is a darn sight better than what I'm used to at home!
- a wonder sight of flowers
- "If your mother put you in the pit at twelve, it's no reason why I should do the same with my lad."
- "Twelve! It wor a sight afore that!"
- Why cloud they not their sights ?
- In their sight it was harmless.
- (Wake)
- That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Synonyms
* (ability to see) sense of sight, vision * (something seen) view * (aiming device) scope, peep sightDerived terms
* sight for sore eyes * far-sighted * in sight * insight * long-sighted * near-sighted * not a pretty sight * at sight * on sight * out of sight * * outsight * second sight * short-sighted * sight cheque * sight draft * sight for sore eyes * sight gag * sight rhyme * sight unseenVerb
(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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.}}