"sighting" meaning in English

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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "There will be a small prize for the first sighting of a seal.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 719",
          "text": "However, many people—including railwaymen—are only beginning to realise how great is the amount of civil engineering work necessary to achieve adequate clearances for high-voltage overhead equipment under bridges and tunnels; what is involved in the re-signalling needed to permit the increased throughput of traffic (in some places it is unavoidable, to afford better sighting of signals obscured by overhead electrical gear); [...].",
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      ],
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        "The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for."
      ],
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          "sight"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for",
          "word": "waarneming"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Sichtung"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "avistamiento"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "avistaje"
        }
      ]
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    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪtɪŋ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sighting"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "present participle and gerund of sight"
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  "sounds": [
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      "rhymes": "-aɪtɪŋ"
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  "word": "sighting"
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        {
          "text": "There will be a small prize for the first sighting of a seal.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 719",
          "text": "However, many people—including railwaymen—are only beginning to realise how great is the amount of civil engineering work necessary to achieve adequate clearances for high-voltage overhead equipment under bridges and tunnels; what is involved in the re-signalling needed to permit the increased throughput of traffic (in some places it is unavoidable, to afford better sighting of signals obscured by overhead electrical gear); [...].",
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        "The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for."
      ],
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  ],
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    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for",
      "word": "waarneming"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Sichtung"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "avistamiento"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "avistaje"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sighting"
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