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by sight

by sight prepositional phrase: by appearance.

Prepositional phrase

  1. By appearance.
    • to know by sight

Questions about by sight

What does by sight mean?
By sight means by appearance.
What part of speech is by sight?
By sight is a prepositional phrase.

Words near by sight in the dictionary

  1. by return of post
  2. by right
  3. by right of
  4. by rights
  5. by sail
  6. by sight
  7. by some distance
  8. by starts and leaps
  9. by steam
  10. by the book
  11. by the by

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