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onsight

adj

Etymology

From on + sight.

  1. inherited from *sihti✻ — “seeing, sight”
  2. inherited from sihþ — “something seen; vision”
  3. inherited from sighte
  4. compounded as onsight — “on + sight”

Definitions

  1. Without having previously seen the terrain.

    • Reardon made hundreds of free-solo ascents of challenging climbing routes done onsight, meaning without rehearsal or practice.

  2. To perform a climb without having previously seen the terrain.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for onsight. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA