squint

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

strabisme

loucher

regarder de travers

plisser les yeux

regarder d’un sale oeil

battre des paupières

bigleux

cligner

coup d’oeil

faire un clin d’oeil

jeter un coup d’oeil

loucheur

papilloter

strabique

bigler

faire un appel de phares

Le strabisme

le strabisme

plissement des yeux

bigle

avoir une coquetterie dans l’œil

ciller

louvoyer

méfiant

plisser

Synonymes

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

Traductions

schielen

Schielen

estrabismo

loensen

bizquear

scheelzien

Strabismus

estrabismo

scheelkijken

bizcar

blinzeln

olhar de soslaio

strabico

αλληθωρίζω

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/skwɪnt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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