单词 | right-eyed |
释义 | right-eyedadj.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [adjective] > that perceives, aware wareOE awarea1250 apperceivanta1500 witting?a1513 knowing1586 right-eyed1600 conscious1617 animadversive1642 percipient1692 recognizant1817 cognizant1839 cognizing1862 perceptful1867 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [adjective] > clear- or sharp-sighted bright-eyeda1393 sightya1400 well-eyeda1425 well-seeing?a1425 eagle-eyeda1475 well-sighteda1529 clear-eyed1530 quick-sighted1542 oculate1549 quick-eyed1561 eyed1563 sharpsighted1571 clear-sighted1586 eagle-sighted1589 lynx-eyed1597 mouse-eyed1599 lycophosed1600 lycophosy1600 right-eyed1600 nimble-eyed1605 perspicacious1616 lyncean1622 piercing-sighted1630 perspicuous1657 sharp-eyed1672 gimlet-eyed1752 keen-eyed1781 keen-sighted1813 hawk-eyed1818 accipitrine1872 accipitral1881 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Epil. sig. Riii That a right-ei'd and solide Reader may perceiue it was not so great a part of the Heauen awry, as they would make it. View more context for this quotation 1648 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple (ed. 2) 53 The right-ey'd Areopagite Shall with a vigorous guesse invade And catch thy quick reflex. 2. Of a person: having the right eye dominant over the left. ΚΠ 1857 J. Brocklesby in Proc. 10th Meeting Amer. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 142 I am inclined to believe that most persons, when they gaze upon a near object with both eyes open, habitually neglect the image formed by the left eye, and employ that of the right to fix the visual direction,—in fact, that we are right-eyed. 1871 Appletons' Jrnl. Mar. 266/2 Dr. Addison said that the majority of men at least, and he also supposed the same of women, were right-eyed. 1904 Science 8 Apr. 592/1 If right-eyed, the engineer can see the track and signals better from the right side of the boiler than from the left. 1932 Amer. Jrnl. Ophthalmol. 15 321/1 Most right handed people are right eyed. 2003 Backwoods Home Mag. Jan.–Feb. 48/1 Being right handed doesn't necessarily mean you're right-footed or right-eyed. 3. Zoology. Of a flatfish or taxonomic group of flatfishes: having both eyes on the right-hand side of the body, as is typical in the family Soleidae (true soles) and, less consistently, in the family Pleuronectidae (right-eyed flounders). ΚΠ 1895 ‘J. Bickerdyke’ in ‘J. Bickerdyke’ et al. Sea Fishing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xii. 365 But even among those species which I may term ‘right-eyed’ the left side is occasionally chosen to simulate the back of the fish. 1946 Sci. News Let. 12 Jan. 23/3 Some species apparently flop on either side more or less indifferently, so that ‘right-eyed’ and ‘left-eyed’ specimens appear in more or less equal numbers. 1967 Copeia No. 2. 490/2 The suborder is conventionally divided into the right-eyed Soleidae..and the left-eyed Cynoglossidae. 2002 Copeia No. 3. 648/2 Citharidae is the only flatfish family to contain both right-eyed..and left-eyed..genera. Compounds right-eyed flounder n. any of the flatfishes comprising the family Pleuronectidae, in which the eyes are typically on the right-hand side of the body. ΚΠ 1934 I. S. Wile Handedness vi. 179 Parker found, as a rule, left-eyed turbots with the right optic nerve dorsal, and right-eyed flounders with the left nerve dorsal. 1961 E. S. Herald Living Fishes of World 273/2 The right-eyed flounders are distinguished from the left-eyed flounders not only by the position of the eyes but also by their eggs. 2005 Bellingham (Washington) Herald (Nexis) 6 Mar. 8 d Favorite deeps where right-eyed flounders can be found. Derivatives right-ˈeyedness n. the condition of being right-eyed. ΚΠ 1893 Trans. Ophthalmol. Soc. U.K. 13 210 The existence of right-eyedness and left-eyedness..was first pointed out to me by my friend and colleague Mr. Hartridge. 1971 Big Spring (Texas) Daily Herald 18 Nov. 23/7 The mirror-reading often occurs with what is known as crossed dominance—left-handedness along with right-eyedness, or vice versa. 2008 R. N. Gibson Flatfishes i. 1 Examination of the occurrence of left and right ‘eyedness’ within the order Pleuronectiformes shows that, although some families are predominantly left- or right-eyed.., the trait for a particular direction of asymmetry does not reflect relationships within the order. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1600 |
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