Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In some primitive forms of trilobites, one of two raised lines which extend outward from near the forward end of the glabella to the eyes.
- noun In hemipterous insects, an imaginary straight line extending from the eye to the origin of the labrum.
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Examples
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Vadim Rizov for the Reeler: "The film is technically incompetent (eye-line matches are off, the alleged comic highlights are slackly edited, etc.), but the sense of effort during the racial bits keeps it moving forward."
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Kate Garroway has been irritatingly in my eye-line of late.
Archive 2007-11-18 Newmania 2007
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A normal conversation at a restaurant table became jolted and dizzy because the eye-line was always shifting.
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Laughs Yes…but anybody would do that because you have to have a reference for the actor to watch it and to know what it would be like to be tortured by this thing and for an eye-line, so they know where to look — that kind of thing.
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Kate Garroway has been irritatingly in my eye-line of late.
Mistletoe and ‘Whine’ Newmania 2007
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Not only would it be a headache, leave the same match up and eye-line problems as before, but it would miss the entire point of the original movie; the interaction, with self-awareness, of two completely different realities.
Roger Rabbit Deux Steve Hulett 2009
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The AIR FISH book that I often revisit is already prominent in my eye-line on a bookshelf as I write this.
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The Republican media wizards also fumbled a photo backdrop for John McCain by replacing Walter Reed Hospital with Walter Reed High School (showing the hospital seems like a questionable choice, in the first place) and sending their nominee out on a fashion show catwalk thrust into the heart of the crowd that messed up his eye-line for the television cameras.
Billy Kimball: The Conventions as Infomercials: I'm Sold! 2008
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Hubby just calmly removed eight-legged monsters into places out of my eye-line.
bumpsadaisy Diary Entry bumpsadaisy 2006
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Gareth tried looking to his father for guidance, but Rebus was doing his best to block his eye-line.
Fleshmarket Close Rankin, Ian 2004
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