Difference between View and Sight

What is the difference between View and Sight?

View as a verb is to look at. while Sight as a verb is to visually register

View

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To look at. # He viewed the painting and praised the artist for his masterpiece. To show. # To view the toolbar, go under the View menu and click Toolbar.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of seeing or looking at something. The range of vision. Something to look at, such as a scenery. A picture. A mental image. A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory. A point of view. An intention or prospect. A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases. The part of a computer program which is visible to the user, the part the user interacts with; a user interface to the underlying logic of the program.

Example sentence: Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Sight

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to visually registerto get sight of (something)to take aim at

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the ability to seesomething seensomething worth seeinga device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended targeta great deal, a lot;

Example sentence: The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

We hope you now know whether to use View or Sight in your sentence.

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