What does Eyeball mean?

Definitions for Eyeball
ˈaɪˌbɔleye·ball

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. eyeball, orbverb

    the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye

  2. eye, eyeballverb

    look at

Wiktionary

  1. eyeballnoun

    the ball of the eye

  2. eyeballverb

    To gauge, estimate or judge by eye; to look or glance at.

  3. eyeballverb

    To scrutinize

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Eyeballnoun

    The apple of the eye; the pupil.

    Etymology: eye and ball.

    Oh, were mine eyeballs into bullets turn’d,
    That I in rage might shoot them at your faces! William Shakespeare, H. VI.

    Be subject to no sight but mine: invisible
    To every eyeball else. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

    I feel my hair grow stiff, my eyeballs rowl;
    This is the only form could shake my soul. John Dryden, Ind. Emp.

    Not when a gilt buffet’s reflected pride
    Turns you from sound philosophy aside,
    Not when from plate to plate your eyeballs roll,
    And the brain dances to the mantling bowl. Alexander Pope, Horace.

Wikipedia

  1. eyeball

    Eyes are organs of the visual system. They provide living organisms with vision, the ability to receive and process visual detail, as well as enabling several photo response functions that are independent of vision. Eyes detect light and convert it into electro-chemical impulses in neurons (neurones). In higher organisms, the eye is a complex optical system which collects light from the surrounding environment, regulates its intensity through a diaphragm, focuses it through an adjustable assembly of lenses to form an image, converts this image into a set of electrical signals, and transmits these signals to the brain through complex neural pathways that connect the eye via the optic nerve to the visual cortex and other areas of the brain. Eyes with resolving power have come in ten fundamentally different forms, and 96% of animal species possess a complex optical system. Image-resolving eyes are present in molluscs, chordates and arthropods.The most simple eyes, pit eyes, are eye-spots which may be set into a pit to reduce the angle of light that enters and affects the eye-spot, to allow the organism to deduce the angle of incoming light. From more complex eyes, retinal photosensitive ganglion cells send signals along the retinohypothalamic tract to the suprachiasmatic nuclei to effect circadian adjustment and to the pretectal area to control the pupillary light reflex.

ChatGPT

  1. eyeball

    An eyeball is a spheroidal structure located in the eye sockets of the skull, constituting the organ of sight in humans and vertebrate animals. It contains parts such as the lens, cornea, iris, retina, and optic nerve, which work together to capture and process light, enabling vision.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Eyeballnoun

    the ball or globe of the eye

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. eyeball

    1. A small, miraculous globe that has the power to fabulize the external universe. 2. The spectacles of the brain; the peephole of consciousness.

Editors Contribution

  1. eyeball

    A facet of the mechanism of an eye.

    They eyeball is circular in shape and turns to view things.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 2, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Eyeball in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Eyeball in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Eyeball in a Sentence

  1. Andrew DeFilippis:

    Risk prediction as science is an evolving process, and there is no question that it will require continuous updating as society evolves and to keep up with contemporary trends and risks, there is no question, though, that these calculators are better than the eyeball test and certainly outperform the physician just saying' I think this person has a 10 % risk' after meeting and looking at them.

  2. Jerry Coleman:

    Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

  3. Jayce Tingler:

    It’s absolutely electric. Jake Cronenworth and rookie come out of the tunnel and you get to the dugout and you can just feel the energy, manager Jayce Tingler can hear it as Manager Jayce Tingler walk down the tunnel. The anthem goes on and Manager Jayce Tingler eyeball the stadium and it’s packed.

  4. Senate Budget:

    We have work to do, everybody is coming back from the August recess. It's our chance to square off, see one another eyeball-to-eyeball but try to work out our differences. But there are clearly differences.

  5. Kaylee Muthart:

    So I pushed my thumb, pointer, and middle finger into each eye. I gripped each eyeball, twisted, and pulled until each eye popped out of the socket — it felt like a massive struggle, the hardest thing I ever had to do, because I could no longer see, I don't know if there was blood. But I know the drugs numbed the pain. I'm pretty sure I would have tried to claw right into my brain if a pastor hadn't heard me screaming, ‘I want to see the light!’ — which I don't recall saying — and restrained me.

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