eyeball
Etymology Noun
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Etymology Noun
eyeball (plural eyeballs)
The ball of the eye. - 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene ii], page 4 ↗, column 2:
- Goe make thy ſelfe like a Nymph o' th' Sea.
Be ſubiect to no ſight but thine, and mine: inuisible
To euery eye-ball elſe: goe take this ſhape,
And hither come in't: goe: hence
With diligence.
- A person's focus of attention.
- (informal) Surveillance.
- 2016, Marie Breen-Smyth, The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence, page 384:
- Intelligence work is necessarily limited in scope by the capacity of national surveillance systems. […] Ultimately, it is only when you have an 'eyeball' or the electronic equivalent on a suspect that you have a reasonable chance of a preventive intervention.
- (marketing, in the plural) A readership or viewership.
- We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs.
- (CB radio, slang) A face-to-face meeting.
- We had an eyeball last year.
- (Caribbean) A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.
- French: globe oculaire
- German: Augapfel
- Italian: bulbo oculare
- Portuguese: globo ocular
- Russian: глазно́е я́блоко
- Spanish: globo ocular
eyeball (eyeballs, present participle eyeballing; simple past and past participle eyeballed)
- (transitive, informal) To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.
- A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.
- Each geometric construction must be exact; eyeballing it and getting close does not count.
- (transitive, informal) To stare at intently.
- Are you eyeballing my girl?
- (intransitive) To roll one's eyes.
- French: évaluer à vue de nez, évaluer au pif, faire à la louche
- German: nach Augenmaß abschätzen, nach Augenmaß abmessen, nach Augenmaß hinzugeben, nach Augenmaß hinzufügen
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