单词 | eyeball |
释义 | eyeball (once / 2855 pages) nv Your eyeball is the round, ball-shaped part of your eye. When you go to an eye doctor, she will take a close look at your eyeballs. Every vertebrate — or animal with a spine — has eyeballs that sit within an eye socket. Your eyeballs are your organs of sight, making it possible for you to see light and color and to focus on the things you're looking at, sending all of these messages to your brain. You can also use the word eyeball, informally, as a verb: "Why do you always eyeball me when I walk by? Is it my strange hat?" WORD FAMILYeyeball: eyeballed, eyeballing, eyeballs USAGE EXAMPLESThe app doesn’t award cash prizes and is seen by the league more as a way to draw eyeballs to TV broadcasts. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) But more than the planner, he relied on a not-so-scientific eyeball test. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) “Eyeball this, ask to die. ‘nuff said,” one user noted in March. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) 1n the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye Syn|Hyper orb capsule a structure that encloses a body part 2v look at Syn|Hyper eye look perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards |
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