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单词 right-eyed
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right-eyedadj.

Brit. /ˈrʌɪtʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈraɪdˌaɪd/
Forms: see right adj. and int. and eyed adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: right adj., eyed adj.
Etymology: < right adj. + eyed adj. In sense 2 after right-handed adj.
1. Of a person: keen-sighted, perceptive. Obsolete.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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