Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fabric woven with a pattern of small diamonds, each having a dot in the center.
- n. The pattern of such a fabric.
- adj. Marked with a spot or spots resembling a bird's eye or eyes, as the bird's-eye maple or a blue flower having a small circular yellow center.
- adj. Derived from or as if from an altitude or distance; comprehensive: a bird's-eye survey; a bird's-eye view.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany: The pheasant's-eye, Adonis autumnalis.
- n. The speedwell, Veronica Chamædrys: so named from its bright-blue flower.
- n. A species of primrose, Primula farinosa.
- n. A fine kind of tobacco, partly manufactured from the leafstalks of the plant, and forming, when ready for use, a loose fibrous mass with thin slices of stalk interspersed, the latter marked somewhat like a bird's eye.
- Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, general; not minute or entering into details: as, a bird's-eye landscape; a bird's-eye view of a subject.
- Resembling a bird's eye; having spots or markings somewhat resembling birds' eyes.
- n. plural A Californian wild flower, Gilia tricolor, sometimes carpeting whole slopes. The funnel-shaped corollas are azure or whitish, with purple spots in the throat bounded by bright gold.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having spots resembling the eyes of a bird
- adj. As if viewed from an altitude; panoramic
- n. A fabric having a pattern of small circles or diamonds with a spot in each centre
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Seen from above, as if by a flying bird; embraced at a glance; hence, general; not minute, or entering into details.
- adj. Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes.
- n. (Bot.) A plant with a small bright flower, as the Adonis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. as from an altitude or distance
Examples
“Most importantly, though, the bird's-eye view of Woody Creek gave motorists a glimpse at one of the finest installations of public art in Colorado history: a barn with a blue roof on which had been painted a gigantic middle finger.”
The Huffington Post: Todd Hartley: Two Thumbs Up for Giant Offensive Fingers
“For the participants in one of two recreational tree-climbing workshops offered by the garden each year, the class was a combination of grueling upper-body work and dogged, slow progress rewarded with a bird's-eye view of the Bronx.”
The Wall Street Journal: Come, Climb a Tree (Just This Once)
“But the growing muscle of securities firms in the metal-storage business is riling users and traders, who say the firms have both a bird's-eye view of supply and demand and the ability to control what goes in and out of their warehouses.”
“DALLAS—Drones, the remote-controlled aircraft used in combat zones, are now hovering over some U.S. cities as police enlist them to get a bird's-eye view of crime scenes and accidents at relatively low expense.”
“Meanwhile, the auction gives a bird's-eye view of the year's releases.”
The Wall Street Journal: For Movie Nerds, a League of Their Own
“Ivan Terestchenko A bird's-eye view of the living room with a Margot rug.”
“UPDATE, 10/13: To help readers chart the Happy Meal's non-decomposition from a bird's-eye view, here are Davies '27 photos (ordered chronologically from left to right) in' contact sheet 'form:”
The Huffington Post: PHOTOS: McDonald's Happy Meal Unchanged After 6 Months On A Table [Updated]
“And the vision: you couldn't be the same person after flying over the highest peaks in the world, or beholding a bird's-eye view of the Great Barrier Reef.”
“From this bird's-eye view he realized the monstrous confusion of their excited workings.”
“Researchers at the University of California, Davis built a robotic version of a female sage grouse in order to get a bird's-eye view of courtship rituals.”
Lists
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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Tobacco
Tobacco types and lingo.
perique, mundungus, mundungo, latakia, kanickanick, kinnikinic, kinnikinick, Cavendish, negrohead, pudding-tobacco, goracco, indian-weed and 47 more...
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hernesheir A woven fabric, or fabric design, with a pattern of small diamonds, each with a dot in the center. Jun 15, 2010