squint
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /skwɪnt/
squint (squints, present participle squinting; past and past participle squinted)
- (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
- The children squinted to frighten each other.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
- (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
- (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
- (intransitive, figurative) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
- The Forum
- Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
- The Forum
- (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
- (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
- to squint an eye
- French: plisser les yeux
- German: blinzeln
- Italian: socchiudere gli occhi
- Portuguese: semicerrar
- Russian: щу́риться
- Spanish: entornar, entrecerrar (los ojos)
- French: loucher
- German: schielen
- Italian: strabicare
- Portuguese: olhar de soslaio
- Russian: смотре́ть и́скоса
- Spanish: mirar de soslayo
- French: louvoyer
squint (plural squints)
- An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
- The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
- He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.
A quick or sideways glance. - A short look.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630 ↗; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483 ↗:
- —And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.
—Give us a squint at her, says I.
- A hagioscope.
- (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
- French: plissement des yeux
- German: Schielen
- Russian: при́щур
- French: strabisme
- German: Strabismus, Schielen
- Portuguese: vesguice, estrabismo
- Russian: косогла́зие
- Spanish: estrabismo
- French: coup d'oeil
- Portuguese: olhar de soslaio
- Russian: косо́й взгля́д
- French: coup d'oeil
- Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
- (Scottish) askew, not level
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