eagle
(iːgəl )
Word forms: eagles
1. countable noun B2
An eagle is a large bird that lives by eating small animals.
2. countable noun
In golf, if you get an eagle, you get the golf ball into a hole in two strokes fewer than the number of strokes which has been set as the standard for a good player.
3. eagle eye phrase [usually with poss]
If you talk about a person's eagle eye, you mean that they are watching someone or something carefully or are very good at noticing things.
He did the work under the eagle eye of his teacher.
The Captain's eagle eye swept the room.
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Idioms:
keep an eagle eye on someone or something
to watch a person or thing very carefully
Mr Grogan kept an eagle eye on everything that was going on in the factory.
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an eagle eye
an ability to find or notice things
No antiques shop, market or junk shop escapes her eagle eye.
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Collocations:
eagle feather eagle flies eagle's nest giant eagle
A warrior who won coup was permitted to wear an eagle feather in his hair.
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Evidence for eagle feather flights has been found with the feathers being bound and glued on.
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Armigers are permitted to wear one silver eagle feather behind the circlet (or on certain occasions a real eagle feather).
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An impressive monument honors the great chief, and depicts him with the eagle feather bonnet and calumet/peace pipe, symbolizing his brave leadership and his love of peace.
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When you look closely, though, you realise they are made out of the soles of old trainers, not eagle feathers.
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Hunting fish, an eagle flies over the waterfall as dazed human survivors creep out from their hiding places.
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Meanwhile, an escaped golden eagle flies above the city.
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And don't let the distances lull you - it's only 10 miles across as the eagle flies, or 21 miles on foot, but it's tough going.
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With one yellow foot the eagle flies off with the 6kg hare.
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Here, the golden eagle flies over a herd of ungulates which in turn often huddle or break into run.
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In the same area, an impressive viewing platform designed to resemble a giant eagle's nest has been constructed.
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Another crofter described going close to a sea eagle's nest and finding what he described as a sheep's graveyard.
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We were watching the sea eagle's nest.
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As in many other large raptors, the eagle's nest resembles a huge platform made of sticks.
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Giant eagle eggs are worth 2,500 gp each.
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The turtle takes the characters across the sea, and they then fly to the castle itself on the back of a giant eagle.
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It was one of these stalagmites in the shape of a majestic giant eagle with its wings outspread which gave the cave its name.
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In the same area, an impressive viewing platform designed to resemble a giant eagle's nest has been constructed.
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Two to twelve giant eagles will typically guard an elven lair.
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Translations:
Chinese: 雕
Japanese: ワシ
- pedestrian access
- pedestrian accident
- pedestrian bridge
- pedestrian crossing
- pedestrian gate
- pedestrianized
- pedestrian mall
- pedestrian precinct
- pedestrian stop
- pedestrian street
- pedestrian tunnel
- pedestrian walk
- pediatrician
- pediatrics
- pedicure
- pedigree
- pedigree breed
- pedigreed
- pediment
- pedlar
- pedometer
- pedophile
- pedophilia
- pee
- peek