eyeball
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- eye-ball (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (US) (file)
Noun[edit]
eyeball (plural eyeballs)
- The ball of the eye.
- 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
- A person's focus of attention.
- (marketing, in the plural) A readership or viewership.
- We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs.
- (CB radio, slang) A face-to-face meeting.
- We had an eyeball last year.
- (Caribbean) A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
ball of the eye
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Verb[edit]
eyeball (third-person singular simple present eyeballs, present participle eyeballing, simple past and past participle eyeballed)
- (transitive, informal) To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.
- A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.
- Each geometric construction must be exact; eyeballing it and getting close does not count.
- (transitive, informal) To scrutinize.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive, informal) To stare at intently.
- Are you eyeballing my girl?
- (intransitive) To roll one's eyes.
- 2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)[1]:
- Guardiola strode on to the pitch at half-time to remonstrate with the Spanish referee, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, but went too far with his eyeballing and matador-like hand movements. He was “upstairs”, in the Colin Bell stand, to watch Liverpool’s second-half turnaround and a dismal seven days for City take another turn for the worse.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to judge by eye
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to scrutinize — see scrutinize
to stare — see stare
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