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Definition of eyeball in English: eyeballnoun ˈʌɪbɔːlˈaɪˌbɔl 1The round part of the eye of a vertebrate, within the eyelids and socket. Example sentencesExamples - Secondly, the lower eyelid has rounded and come away from the eyeball.
- Four muscles pull each eyeball straight back into the eye socket, shortening the eyeball.
- The eyeball sits in the eye socket (also called the orbit) in a person's skull, where it is surrounded by bone.
- Instead it was a mixture of lips, eyelids, eyeballs, nostrils, udders, spare skin, throat, larynx and so forth.
- The tumor in boy's left eye had displaced his eyeball from its socket and caused the boy to constantly tilt his head due to the weight of the tumor.
- The lights began fading slowly until all that lit the darkness were bright red rings within bloodshot eyeballs.
- In some reported instances, it forms a muscular funnel around the optic nerve and is inserted onto the back of the eyeball.
- This means that the lower eyelid has fallen away from the eyeball so that the tiny hole into which the tears drain is no longer in the tear pool.
- Skin is slowly shed or rubbed away and replaced, but the lens is confined within the fixed volume of the eyeball.
- Glaucoma, which often leads to partial or total blindness, is caused by an increase of fluid pressure within the eyeball.
- With myopia, the cornea is too curved or the eyeball too long.
- The eyeball is moved to the side and the optic nerve sheath is exposed.
- The retina lines the inner face of the back of the eyeball and contains light-sensitive cells that transmit images to the brain.
- Exophthalmos is caused by an increase in the bulk of the tissue behind the orbit (eye socket) that forces the eyeball forward.
- A small incision is made in the side of your eyeball to allow for removal of your cornea's inner layer without hurting the outer layers.
- It can be due to either a too flat cornea or the eyeball being too short.
- The surgeon uses a wire speculum to retract the eyelids to expose the eyeball.
- The orbit is a socket for the eyeball, muscles, nerves, and vessels that are necessary for proper functioning of the eye.
- His face motionless, Altobelli reached up and uncorked his left eyeball from its socket, placing it on the table.
- More anteriorly, the optic nerve is surrounded only by the smooth meningeal or inner layer of the dura, which blends with the sclera of the eyeball.
- 1.1Marketing Used to refer to the number of people who visit a website, watch a television programme or channel, read a publication, etc., especially when regarded as a potential source of revenue.
I think we got a few more eyeballs on the site the series continues to draw eyeballs to CBS on Wednesdays media compete to attract eyeballs Example sentencesExamples - The advertisers get better quality eyeballs and the networks can charge more money.
- The posts are marketed on social media platforms, giving the blog more eyeballs.
- The sharing aspect is really powerful because it brings so many more eyeballs to the event.
- The games attract legions of fans, millions of eyeballs and the nation's best recruits.
- Let these valuable tips help you solidify your social media impact to attract new eyeballs and use the power of your content to turn them into lifelong customers.
- It's important to many companies to keep competitors from gaining those eyeballs.
- The platform is there; at the cost of a few extra staff he can attract new eyeballs around the country and the world.
- The band would have brought in teenage eyeballs.
- Documentaries have limited runs in theatres, and are subject to limited eyeballs and competition from feature films.
- What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs.
verb ˈʌɪbɔːlˈaɪˌbɔl [with object]informal Look or stare at closely. Example sentencesExamples - It is surely a grim coincidence that this series, portraying footballers as filthy-rich hedonistic schemers, began a new run in the very week that Scottish football eyeballed a financial abyss.
- As your balance and coordination improve, set goals like eyeballing a tree 100 yards downslope and making 20 turns on the way to it.
- Durable in the tackle, his explosive vein now only pops out when he is running with the ball at his feet, not when eyeballing an opponent.
- After we ordered our brightly coloured drinks, the waitress lingered, drunkenly putting her arm around me and stroking my shoulder while she eyeballed Clay.
- Everything carried on, we ordered our pints, but it was noticeable that several people were eyeballing us all the time.
- Now, as she started to talk about these things, I was eyeballing her from a distance.
- Is it an earnest appreciation of the avant-garde or just eyeballing a freak show?
- Away from the soccer field, European smokers are eyeballing Norway with a wary eye.
- In an open-necked pink shirt Howard shook hands and eyeballed his enthusiasts as he moved swiftly to the podium and almost immediately began speaking.
- Cycling through the swamp paths and eyeballing an alligator, a creature so suited to its environment that it hasn't changed in 50 million years, is a humbling experience.
- She pulled her cloak around herself tighter as she stared around, and men eyeballed her.
- And then I tapped the tip here and there to cover up any areas of white that the whorls might have missed, just in case the scanner was looking at a specific sector instead of eyeballing the oval in its entirety.
- Of course, they may have to compete with purely domestic companies that are eyeballing the same markets.
- While manager at Valencia, he confronted Romario, eyeballing the great Brazilian, to demand he ‘look into my eyes.’
Synonyms look at, see, observe, view, gaze at, gaze upon, stare at, scan, regard, contemplate, survey, inspect, examine, scrutinize, study, consider, glance at, take a glance at
Phrases Face to face with someone, especially in an aggressive way. he wheeled round to confront John eyeball to eyeball as modifier an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation Example sentencesExamples - Then defence secretary Robert McNamara said of the crisis: ‘We were eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.’
- We will discuss all of these items with the Chinese, but we'll do it straight up, eyeball to eyeball.
- But, toward the end, a 2 metre hammerhead shimmies by and for a wonderful second I am eyeball to eyeball with one of nature's most unusual creations.
- But the one that still rankles is the time back in the fall of 1966 when he went eyeball to eyeball with Shawn - and blinked.
- Keep the principal people from coming eyeball to eyeball and doing dumb things when they talk to each other.
- Queues of angry motorists grew behind the horsebox drivers, who sounded their horns and pulled up eyeball to eyeball outside the yard where City of York councillors were making a planning site visit.
- But I tell you what, it comes down to people getting eyeball to eyeball and talking about things that matter for everybody.
- This will be hand-to-hand combat, eyeball to eyeball.
- For a first time spectator, it's the only phrase that seems suitable because the sight of bigger than average, fully grown men slugging it out, eyeball to eyeball, is as engrossing as sport could possibly be.
- But for the West to go eyeball to eyeball with Putin over the outcome merely complicates Ukraine's domestic problems and takes East-West relations back a dangerous step to the bad old days.
Synonyms stand up to, outface, cow, overawe, intimidate, browbeat, confront, beard, outstare, stare down, stare out, defy
give someone the hairy eyeball informal Stare at someone in a disapproving or angry way, especially with one's eyelids partially lowered. not one, but two security guards started giving me the hairy eyeball Example sentencesExamples - And he pushed me aside and said to one of the girls, a tall leggy brunette who'd always been giving him the hairy eyeball: ‘You show her!’
- Well, she had changed, she had an address that wasn't a motel room and a permanent somebody in her life, and it had been a long time since she'd caught any store clerks giving her the hairy eyeball in the shoplifting mirrors.
- He was talking about giving someone the hairy eyeball in the same way you would give someone a venereal disease.
- It was where you were discussing the joys of nursing and referred to giving a woman giving her baby a bottle 'the hairy eyeball.'
up to the (or one's) eyeballs informal Used to emphasize the extreme degree of an undesirable situation. he's up to his eyeballs in debt Example sentencesExamples - But that's why you're up to your eyeballs in debt in the first place.
- Most humans do not find themselves up to their eyeballs in situations like this.
- Irish people are already up to their eyeballs in debt.
- On top of that, consumers are up to their eyeballs in debt.
- And yet these very different inflation dynamics have had no discernible impact on the willingness of buyers to go up to their eyeballs in debt in order to purchase the houses of their speculative dreams.
- Cooked to a cinder one day, up to your eyeballs in the white stuff the next.
- U.S. consumers, who are in debt up to their eyeballs, will get pounded.
- There's nothing very glitzy or glamorous about struggling to put up a big tent in a high wind with freezing rain trickling down your neck and mud up to your eyeballs.
- Two hours later, you're up to your eyeballs in miniature traffic signs and store facades.
- It is all right to be flooded up to your eyeballs, it is happening in Spain and France.
Definition of eyeball in US English: eyeballnounˈīˌbôlˈaɪˌbɔl 1The round part of the eye of a vertebrate, within the eyelids and socket. In mammals it is typically a firm, mobile, spherical structure enclosed by the sclera and the cornea. Example sentencesExamples - Exophthalmos is caused by an increase in the bulk of the tissue behind the orbit (eye socket) that forces the eyeball forward.
- Glaucoma, which often leads to partial or total blindness, is caused by an increase of fluid pressure within the eyeball.
- Skin is slowly shed or rubbed away and replaced, but the lens is confined within the fixed volume of the eyeball.
- Four muscles pull each eyeball straight back into the eye socket, shortening the eyeball.
- The tumor in boy's left eye had displaced his eyeball from its socket and caused the boy to constantly tilt his head due to the weight of the tumor.
- Secondly, the lower eyelid has rounded and come away from the eyeball.
- The eyeball sits in the eye socket (also called the orbit) in a person's skull, where it is surrounded by bone.
- His face motionless, Altobelli reached up and uncorked his left eyeball from its socket, placing it on the table.
- It can be due to either a too flat cornea or the eyeball being too short.
- The eyeball is moved to the side and the optic nerve sheath is exposed.
- The orbit is a socket for the eyeball, muscles, nerves, and vessels that are necessary for proper functioning of the eye.
- The lights began fading slowly until all that lit the darkness were bright red rings within bloodshot eyeballs.
- Instead it was a mixture of lips, eyelids, eyeballs, nostrils, udders, spare skin, throat, larynx and so forth.
- More anteriorly, the optic nerve is surrounded only by the smooth meningeal or inner layer of the dura, which blends with the sclera of the eyeball.
- The retina lines the inner face of the back of the eyeball and contains light-sensitive cells that transmit images to the brain.
- A small incision is made in the side of your eyeball to allow for removal of your cornea's inner layer without hurting the outer layers.
- This means that the lower eyelid has fallen away from the eyeball so that the tiny hole into which the tears drain is no longer in the tear pool.
- With myopia, the cornea is too curved or the eyeball too long.
- In some reported instances, it forms a muscular funnel around the optic nerve and is inserted onto the back of the eyeball.
- The surgeon uses a wire speculum to retract the eyelids to expose the eyeball.
- 1.1Marketing Used to refer to the number of people who visit a website, watch a television program or channel, read a publication, etc., especially when regarded as a potential source of revenue.
I think we got a few more eyeballs on the site the series continues to draw eyeballs to CBS on Wednesdays media compete to attract eyeballs Example sentencesExamples - The platform is there; at the cost of a few extra staff he can attract new eyeballs around the country and the world.
- The games attract legions of fans, millions of eyeballs and the nation's best recruits.
- Let these valuable tips help you solidify your social media impact to attract new eyeballs and use the power of your content to turn them into lifelong customers.
- The band would have brought in teenage eyeballs.
- The sharing aspect is really powerful because it brings so many more eyeballs to the event.
- Documentaries have limited runs in theatres, and are subject to limited eyeballs and competition from feature films.
- The posts are marketed on social media platforms, giving the blog more eyeballs.
- What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs.
- The advertisers get better quality eyeballs and the networks can charge more money.
- It's important to many companies to keep competitors from gaining those eyeballs.
verbˈīˌbôlˈaɪˌbɔl [with object]informal Look or stare at closely. Example sentencesExamples - Of course, they may have to compete with purely domestic companies that are eyeballing the same markets.
- After we ordered our brightly coloured drinks, the waitress lingered, drunkenly putting her arm around me and stroking my shoulder while she eyeballed Clay.
- Away from the soccer field, European smokers are eyeballing Norway with a wary eye.
- While manager at Valencia, he confronted Romario, eyeballing the great Brazilian, to demand he ‘look into my eyes.’
- Cycling through the swamp paths and eyeballing an alligator, a creature so suited to its environment that it hasn't changed in 50 million years, is a humbling experience.
- Everything carried on, we ordered our pints, but it was noticeable that several people were eyeballing us all the time.
- It is surely a grim coincidence that this series, portraying footballers as filthy-rich hedonistic schemers, began a new run in the very week that Scottish football eyeballed a financial abyss.
- In an open-necked pink shirt Howard shook hands and eyeballed his enthusiasts as he moved swiftly to the podium and almost immediately began speaking.
- Is it an earnest appreciation of the avant-garde or just eyeballing a freak show?
- Now, as she started to talk about these things, I was eyeballing her from a distance.
- Durable in the tackle, his explosive vein now only pops out when he is running with the ball at his feet, not when eyeballing an opponent.
- And then I tapped the tip here and there to cover up any areas of white that the whorls might have missed, just in case the scanner was looking at a specific sector instead of eyeballing the oval in its entirety.
- As your balance and coordination improve, set goals like eyeballing a tree 100 yards downslope and making 20 turns on the way to it.
- She pulled her cloak around herself tighter as she stared around, and men eyeballed her.
Synonyms look at, see, observe, view, gaze at, gaze upon, stare at, scan, regard, contemplate, survey, inspect, examine, scrutinize, study, consider, glance at, take a glance at
Phrases Face to face with someone, especially in an aggressive way. he wheeled around to confront John eyeball to eyeball Example sentencesExamples - But I tell you what, it comes down to people getting eyeball to eyeball and talking about things that matter for everybody.
- Queues of angry motorists grew behind the horsebox drivers, who sounded their horns and pulled up eyeball to eyeball outside the yard where City of York councillors were making a planning site visit.
- This will be hand-to-hand combat, eyeball to eyeball.
- Then defence secretary Robert McNamara said of the crisis: ‘We were eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.’
- But, toward the end, a 2 metre hammerhead shimmies by and for a wonderful second I am eyeball to eyeball with one of nature's most unusual creations.
- For a first time spectator, it's the only phrase that seems suitable because the sight of bigger than average, fully grown men slugging it out, eyeball to eyeball, is as engrossing as sport could possibly be.
- But for the West to go eyeball to eyeball with Putin over the outcome merely complicates Ukraine's domestic problems and takes East-West relations back a dangerous step to the bad old days.
- But the one that still rankles is the time back in the fall of 1966 when he went eyeball to eyeball with Shawn - and blinked.
- Keep the principal people from coming eyeball to eyeball and doing dumb things when they talk to each other.
- We will discuss all of these items with the Chinese, but we'll do it straight up, eyeball to eyeball.
Synonyms stand up to, outface, cow, overawe, intimidate, browbeat, confront, beard, outstare, stare down, stare out, defy
give someone the hairy eyeball informal Stare at someone disapprovingly or angrily, especially with one's eyelids partially lowered. Example sentencesExamples - It was where you were discussing the joys of nursing and referred to giving a woman giving her baby a bottle 'the hairy eyeball.'
- Well, she had changed, she had an address that wasn't a motel room and a permanent somebody in her life, and it had been a long time since she'd caught any store clerks giving her the hairy eyeball in the shoplifting mirrors.
- He was talking about giving someone the hairy eyeball in the same way you would give someone a venereal disease.
- And he pushed me aside and said to one of the girls, a tall leggy brunette who'd always been giving him the hairy eyeball: ‘You show her!’
informal Used to emphasize the extreme degree of an undesirable situation or condition. he's up to his eyeballs in debt Example sentencesExamples - Most humans do not find themselves up to their eyeballs in situations like this.
- Cooked to a cinder one day, up to your eyeballs in the white stuff the next.
- On top of that, consumers are up to their eyeballs in debt.
- Two hours later, you're up to your eyeballs in miniature traffic signs and store facades.
- But that's why you're up to your eyeballs in debt in the first place.
- It is all right to be flooded up to your eyeballs, it is happening in Spain and France.
- U.S. consumers, who are in debt up to their eyeballs, will get pounded.
- Irish people are already up to their eyeballs in debt.
- And yet these very different inflation dynamics have had no discernible impact on the willingness of buyers to go up to their eyeballs in debt in order to purchase the houses of their speculative dreams.
- There's nothing very glitzy or glamorous about struggling to put up a big tent in a high wind with freezing rain trickling down your neck and mud up to your eyeballs.
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