squint

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
2. (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
3. (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
4. (figuratively, intransitive) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
5. (Scotland, intransitive) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
6. (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.

Noun

1. An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
2. The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
3. A quick or sideways glance.
4. (informal) A short look; a peep.
5. A hagioscope.
6. The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
7. An opening, often arched, through an internal wall of a church, providing an oblique view of the altar.

Adj

1. Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
2. (Scotland) askew, not level

Sinonieme

strabismus

cross-eyed

cross-eye

squint-eyed

look askance

squinty

askance

blink

squinch

be cross-eyed

wink

😉

askant

peep

asquint

sidelong

oblique

cast in the eye

squinting

look with one eye

glance

skew

misunderstanding

narrow

offset

pull a face

scowl

shun

slanting

swept

walleyed

walleyes

divergent strabismus

have a squint

narrow one’s eyes

nictitate

screw up one’s eyes

skew-eyed

strabism

sight error

mistaken view

be crossed

peer with one eye

hagioscope

squinny

squinting eye

shift excursion

off-lying

heterotropy

ocular deviation

bigle

Vertalings

schielen

strabisme

loucher

Schielen

estrabismo

loensen

bizquear

Strabismus

scheelzien

bizcar

scheelkijken

estrabismo

strabico

blinzeln

olhar de soslaio

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/skwɪnt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).