on sight
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.54 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Immediately when sighted.
prep_phrase
Example Sentences
- "I recognized him on sight."
- ""Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force."
- "If you were to examine a standard nipple clamp, you would find it resembles a pair of tiny alligator jaws and with good reason – Earl’s first nipple clamps were a pair of live baby alligators trained to bite nipples on sight."
- "Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s."
- "He dismissed the idea on sight."
- "If he keeps talking crap about me, its on sight."