sight vs view

sight

noun
  • The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view. 

  • Mental view; opinion; judgment. 

  • The ability to see. 

  • Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad. 

  • Something seen. 

  • A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained. 

  • A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target. 

  • In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening. 

  • a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative. 

verb
  • To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually. 

  • To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of. 

  • To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight. 

  • To observe though, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating. 

view

noun
  • The act of seeing or looking at something. 

  • A wake. 

  • A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases. 

  • A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory. 

  • An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user. 

  • Something to look at, such as scenery. 

  • The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with 

  • The range of vision. 

  • A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch. 

  • A point of view. 

  • A mental image. 

  • An intention or prospect. 

verb
  • To regard in a stated way. 

  • To look at. 

How often have the words sight and view occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )