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eyeball Definition

eye·ball (ībôl′)

noun

the ball-shaped part of the eye, enclosed by the socket and eyelids

transitive verb, intransitive verb

Informal to observe, examine, measure, etc. (something) visually

eyeball Idioms

eyeball to eyeball

Slang in direct personal contact; person to person

eyeball Usage Examples

Object

  • datum: Eyeballing the data presented in the table shows some level of correspondence between these scales.
  • world: Watch out for the roving G8 monster, giant telescopes eyeballing the world 's leaders and the mighty inflatable musclemen!

Converse of object

  • dissect: PaulM: We started talking about The One because Martin dissected an eyeball.
  • give: As a cherished open-source adage has it: " Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
  • have: When you have an extra eyeball in the middle of your forehead, being subtle about it isn't really an option.
  • get: I still couldn't get an eyeball on them!
  • use: Manpower is relatively inexpensive for them, and they use more eyeballs, if you will.
  • roll: The hysterical sight of Zander and Chris with eyeballs rolled right up providing the backing for Necronomicon ( IIRC ).

Adjective modifier

  • bovine: Bovine eyeballs The Committee was asked to look at the question of the use of bovine eyeballs in schools.
  • giant: I'd go as far as to say that my ideal woman is a giant eyeball.
  • enough: One of this community's basic security philosophies is, " With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
  • human: Players have ten minutes to find the largest collection of detached human eyeballs.
  • own: He always insisted that his own eyeballs were more reliable than the satellite imagery that Washington decision-makers relied on.
  • more: Manpower is relatively inexpensive for them, and they use more eyeballs, if you will.

Modifies a noun

  • dissection: The bovine eyeball dissection affair will surely become a classic.
  • kid: The eyeball kid had the full complement as far as I could see, but there you go.

Modifying Another Word

  • just: Don't just eyeball it use an accurate level.

Preposition: in

  • debt: Not easy, I know, as I'm up 2 eyeballs in debt myself!
  • school: Bovine eyeballs The Committee was asked to look at the question of the use of bovine eyeballs in schools.

Preposition: for

  • advertiser: That's a lot of potential eyeballs for the advertisers.
eyeball Quotes

Strong is the lionölike a coal His eye-ballölike a bastion's mole His chest against the foes: Strong, the gier-eagle on his sail, Strong against tide, th'enormous whale Emerges as he goes.

—Smart, Christopher

We were eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

—Rusk, (David) Dean

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