| 单词 | squint |
| 释义 | squint (once / 1977 pages) vnadj You squint when you squeeze your eyes almost shut. If you are trying to see something far away, you will probably squint while you strain your eyes to see more clearly. When the sun shines brilliantly through the car windshield, the driver will squint, or squeeze her eyes almost shut against the bright light. This is probably a good moment for the driver to grab her sunglasses! You'll squint when a light is suddenly turned on in a dark room, and you might also squint when you're trying to read tiny type on a food label or medicine bottle. The expression on your face, and the action of doing this, are both called a squint as well. Squint comes from the now rare adverb asquint, or "from the corner of the eyes." WORD FAMILYsquint: squinted, squinter, squinting, squintingly, squints+/squinter: squinters USAGE EXAMPLESIt played like an average, unreliable squad that settles for decency, squints when the lights are bright and fails to maximize its best attributes. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) He was wearing aviator sunglasses, like a proper pilot should, while I squinted at the bright morning sky. BBC(Dec 24, 2016) Squint down at the list, and pick three departments at random. Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) 1v partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield Hyper look have a certain outward or facial expression 2v cross one's eyes as if in strabismus The children squinted so as to scare each other Syn|Hyper squinch grimace, make a face, pull a face contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state 3v be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus Hyper look perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards 4n the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed Hyper look, looking, looking at the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually 5n abnormal alignment of one or both eyes Syn|Hypo|Hyper strabismus convergent strabismus, cross-eye, crossed eye, esotropia strabismus in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose divergent strabismus, exotropia, walleyestrabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward abnormalcy, abnormality an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies 6adj (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy Syn askance, askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squinty indirect not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination |
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