Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The small central circle on a target.
- noun A shot that hits this circle.
- noun A direct hit.
- noun The precise accomplishment of a goal or purpose.
- noun A thick, circular piece of glass set, as in a roof or ship's deck, to admit light.
- noun A circular opening or window.
- noun A plano-convex lens used to concentrate light.
- noun A lantern or lamp having such a lens.
- noun A piece of round hard candy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In meteorology: A small cloud of ruddy aspect which off the coast of South Africa rapidly develops into a local storm.
- noun The center of a system of circular isobars, such as characterizes an extensive storm. The isobars suggest the appearance of a target with its bull's-eye.
- noun Hence— The severest part of a storm or the center of a hurricane.
- noun A fish of New South Wales, Priacanthus macracanthus.
- noun The labradorite variety of feldspar, with a dusky sheen. Also
œil-de-bœuf . - noun Nautical: An oval wooden block without a sheave, but with a groove around it for the band and a hole in the center through which a small stay or rope may be rove.
- noun A perforated ball on the jaw-rope of a gaff.
- noun A small obscure cloud, ruddy in the middle, supposed to portend a hurricane or storm.
- noun The hurricane or storm itself.
- noun In architecture, any circular opening for light or air; a bullock's-eye.
- noun In astronomy, Aldebaran, a star of the first magnitude in the eye of Taurus, or the Bull. See cut under
Taurus . - noun A round piece of thick glass, convex on one side, inserted into a deck, port, scuttle-hatch, or skylight-cover of a vessel for the purpose of admitting light.
- noun A small lantern with a convex lens placed in one side to concentrate the light.
- noun That part of a sheet of crown-glass which has been attached to the pontil.
- noun A planocon-vex lens in a microscope, which serves as an illuminator to concentrate rays of light upon an opaque micro-scopic object.
- noun A small and thick old-fashioned watch.
- noun In archery and gunnery The central or innermost division of a target, usually round and of a different color from the rest. See
target . - noun A shot that hits the bull's-eye; the best shot that can be made.
- noun A coarse sweet-meat; a colored or striped ball of candy.
- noun A local English name of the dunlin, Tringa alpina.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.
- noun A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.
- noun A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship's side, etc., to let in light.
- noun A circular or oval opening for air or light.
- noun A lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself.
- noun (Astron.) Aldebaran, a bright star in the eye of
Taurus or the Bull. - noun (Archery & Gun.) The center of a target.
- noun A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown.
- noun colloq. A small and thick old-fashioned watch.
- noun something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
bull's eye .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun in target shooting: a score made by hitting the center of the target
- noun the center of a target
- noun something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal
- noun a lantern with a single opening and a sliding panel that can be closed to conceal the light
Etymologies
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Examples
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How many will give a very serious second thought to whether life in public service is worth it; to whether a life in the very bull's-eye is worth the price Gabby Giffords is now paying and Christina Green has already paid?
Rebecca Sive: Mark Kelly at National Prayer Breakfast: Will Something Good Come of This?
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Fox's Human Target benefited from being in Idol's wake, serving as the bull's-eye for 9.3 million people and increasing 24 percent to a season-high 2.6 demo rating from its Monday show, while a Modern Family rerun garnered 7.9 million.
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Rain, and quite a lot of it, drew a bull's-eye on the Washington region with the same ferocity as last winter's relentless blizzards.
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How many will give a very serious second thought to whether life in public service is worth it; to whether a life in the very bull's-eye is worth the price Gabby Giffords is now paying and Christina Green has already paid?
Rebecca Sive: Mark Kelly at National Prayer Breakfast: Will Something Good Come of This?
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Communities inland were getting hit hardest, with eastern Pennsylvania serving as the bull's-eye for the storm.
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Rain, and quite a lot of it, drew a bull's-eye on the Washington region with the same ferocity as last winter's relentless blizzards.
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Whenever I read those stories, I think of George Foreman's contention that the rope-a-dope was never a strategy at all, that Muhammad Ali had fired an arrow into a barn and then walked over afterward and painted a bull's-eye around it.
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Rep. Bob Brady D-Pa. is planning to introduce a bill banning bull's-eye and crosshairs images.
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Rain, and quite a lot of it, drew a bull's-eye on the Washington region with the same ferocity as last winter's relentless blizzards.
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So, too, is Shakespeare & Company's revival a wholly satisfying piece of work, a show full of bull's-eye moments that make you sit up straight in your seat and say, "I've been there—that's just how it is."
reesetee commented on the word bull's-eye
In stamp collecting, a cancel that is centered directly on the stamp so that the stamp shows the location and date of mailing.
August 25, 2008