{"id":151,"date":"2014-04-08T12:48:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T02:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2017-03-04T13:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T02:34:28","slug":"the-difference-between-sight-site-and-cite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-sight-site-and-cite\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between sight, site and cite"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>TLDR:<\/strong> <em>Sight<\/em> is for seeing, <em>site<\/em> is for websites and building sites, and <em>cite<\/em> is for making references in essays.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>sight (noun)\u2014the ability of seeing; the thing that is seen<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>My mother lost her sight in a car accident.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>Josie wasn\u2019t going to let the puppy out of her sight for an instant!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>The big red tractor was a familiar sight on the farm.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>sight (verb)\u2014to see; in reference to the sights of a gun or optical instrument<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>\u2018Let me know when you sight a good lookout,\u2019 Dad said, \u2018then we can stop for a photo.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>The soldier sighted down the barrel of his rifle.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>site (noun)\u2014an area of ground upon which something is constructed; (colloquial) a website<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>The two boys snuck into the construction site and had a poke around.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>The site chosen for the Olympic Stadium was situated beside the river.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>\u2018I check your site every day!\u2019 Lisa said eagerly. \u2018I\u2019m a <strong>massive<\/strong> fan!\u2019<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>cite (verb)\u2014to mention or refer to something in an argument; to praise someone, usually in the military<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>Ben cited the Oxford English Dictionary in his last assignment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>The college was cited in the newspaper as one of the leading educational institutions in the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>Rimmer was cited for bravery against the GELF in the battle.<\/em> (Unlikely, but he can dream.)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All together now!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>Jeremy <strong>cited<\/strong> the OH&amp;S regulations, explaining that the worker who had lost his <strong>sight<\/strong> in an accident on the construction <strong>site<\/strong> should have been wearing safety goggles.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master these and become a poet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}