Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The globe-shaped portion of the eye surrounded by the socket and covered externally by the eyelids.
- n. The eye itself.
- v. Informal To look over carefully; scrutinize.
- v. Informal To measure or estimate roughly by sight: eyeballed the area of the wall that needed paint.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The ball or globe of the eye; the globus oculi: so called from its globular or spherical shape, as in man and many other animals. In animals below mammals it is often strengthened and molded into a particular form by the ossification of a part of the sclerotic tissue. These scleroskeletal eyebones are flattened plates disposed in a ring around the cornea in the fore part of the sclerotic. They are numerous and well marked in all birds, many reptiles, etc. See
eye .
Wiktionary
- n. the ball of the eye
- v. To gauge, estimate or judge by eye; to look or glance at.
- v. To scrutinize
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The ball or globe of the eye.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
- v. look at
Etymologies
- From eye + ball. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The razor across the eyeball is a detail from an old film.”
“I mean, explaining how the Q-tip ended up in his eyeball is going to be hard to explain at the emergency room.”
“Every eyeball is hers; every hat is hers; every neck is perfect for throttling, precious, and all done without emotion, to provoke emotion.”
“I just dont knowI call him ole iron eye now, .. yuk yuk cause if you catch it just right in just the right light the lenz reflects makes him look like his eyeball is steel.,.”
“I got a very flattering comment over on the forums today: a male reader who picked up CARDINAL RULE because it'd been mis-shelved in mystery read the back cover, most of the first chapter, then went and bought it despite getting the hairy eyeball from the female bookseller because he was buying a Silhouette book.”
“THE EYEBALL The human eye, which is just about an inch in diameter, is very nearly a sphere in shape, so the expression eyeball for the eye as a physical structure is quite apt.”
The Human Brain
“It’s as though they are trying to maintain eyeball market share or something, by burying the lede.”
“Or whatever they call the eyeball-stabbing graphics that dominate the site.”
“The eyeball was a few feet away, staring at the late chocolate lab from under a bush.”
“If you look carefully, it looks like the eyeball is a foil covered chocolate that I see all the time this time of year.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eyeball’.
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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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Shakespurian drivel
swagger, zany, undress, puke, eyeball, inaudible, pander, besmirch, bandit, equivocal, marketable, mimic
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ham lingo
amateur radio operators create a lingo of their own. I grew up listening to my father using these terms. txting is just the latest form.
dx, xyl, 73s, cq, qrn, qrm, ssb, dummy load, driven element, eyeball, qsl, rig and 19 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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Amalgamations
Words that have been smashed together.
keystone, touchstone, footprint, thunderhead, seesaw, textbook, leftovers, watchword, afterbirth, fieldwork, outcast, statesman and 148 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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Gaw
Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.
cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 more...
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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, E
excoriate, exoskeleton, enclave, endemic, erstwhile, entwine, elliptical, élan, earflaps, earlobe, earthen, earthenware and 238 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Grrrrr
Words I loathe
panties, moist, exercise, dishes, cleaning, running, secretary, orientated, pilates, pupil, badonkadonk, emulsion and 1 more...
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Coined by Shakespeare
William Shakespeare had a masterful command of the English language. But did you know he helped create it? Here's just a few of the words first used by the Bard in his plays.
alligator, dawn, lonely, drug, eyeball, undress, puke, domineering, inaudible, pander, amazement, leapfrog and 3 more...
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Nouns first attested in Shakespeare
summit, scuffle, critic, bandit, mountaineer, savagery, bedroom, radiance, birthplace, pageantry, courtship, ode and 13 more...
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ricetraitor's Words
vaticide, eyeball, pillow, deciduous, temerity, lush, vroom, catapult, cascade, bookish, banana, thrust and 18 more...
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Flirtation: attention without intention
coquette, tease, eyeball, player, cruiser, vamp, vixen, siren, tramp, femme fatale
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southside's Words
star, teardrop, eyeball, roadhouse, one, words, help, quango
Tweets
Looking for tweets for eyeball.
tbtabby The words eye and ball were already in the English language, but Shakespeare was the first to put them together.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3, Scene 2:
"make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight." Sep 2, 2009
fbharjo face-to-face meeting for a ham Aug 19, 2009
Dysiode Eyeball and Apple are apparently synonyms, although I'm not sure I see how they got to be that way ;) Jun 8, 2009