catch sight of

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

catch sight of (third-person singular simple present catches sight of, present participle catching sight of, simple past and past participle caught sight of)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) to see for a brief period; to get a glimpse of
   • 2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barely caught sight of goal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority.

Translations

to glimpse

• French: apercevoir (fr), entrevoir (fr)
• German: wahrnehmen (de)
• Hungarian: észrevesz (hu), megpillant (hu)
• Italian: scorgere (it), intravedere (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: conspicor
• Portuguese: aperceber (pt)
• Romanian: întrezări (ro), zări (ro)