eyeball

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. The ball of the eye.
2. A person's focus of attention.
3. (informal) Surveillance.
4. (in-plural) A readership or viewership.
5. (slang) A face-to-face meeting.
6. (Caribbean) A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.

Verb

1. (informal, transitive) To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.
2. (informal, transitive) To stare at intently.
3. (intransitive) To roll one's eyes.

Concepts

globe oculaire

œil

👁️

globe

orbe

oeil

globe de l’oeil

Synonymes

eye

👁️

orb

eyes

👀

look over

pupil of eye

pupil

floodgate

regard

round

see

👀

stare

study

look out on

watch

⌚

organ of sight

fruit

bulbus oculi

I

eeble

apple

🍎

attempt

browse

examine

face

Traductions

Augapfel

globo ocular

oogappel

Auge

👁️

ojo

👁️

mirar

niña

👧

ojear

Étymologie (Anglais)

From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).