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Definition: Bird's Eye |
Bird's EyeNoun1. Old World plant with axillary racemes of blue-and-white flowers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Industry | Effect obtained with a "T-sharped plain weave", warping and wefting alternate 2 light threads and two dark. Almost round, light spots on dark ground result, similar to a bird's eye. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: Bird's EyeSynonym: germander speedwell (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: birdseye (industry), bird's-eye (food & agriculture). |
Crosswords: Bird's Eye |
| Specialty definitions using "bird's eye": birdseye. (references) |
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Screenplays | I get the bird's eye view up here, you get the bucket seats in the Jag. (The Equalizer; writing credit: Grenville Casey; Loraine Despres) | |
Movie/TV Titles | From a Bird's Eye View (1971) Bird's Eye View of Bodh Gaya (1923) | |
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![]() | A bird's eye view of a bird's foot delta - the Passes of the Mississippi River. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | A bird's eye view of a passing hydrofoil and most of the netting complex. The mouth of the trap and the cod end extending landward can be clearly seen. Credit: Fisheries. |
![]() | A bird's eye view of sediment being pumped onto the marsh platform. This image was used in the NOAA Restoration Center brochure that was published in May 2001. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Route map showing the routes of Shackleton and Amundsen in the quest for the . Pole. Titled: "Approximate bird's eye view, drawn from the first telegraphic account." In: "The South Pole", by Roald Amundsen, 1872-1928. Volume I, page 1, Library Call Number M82.1/99 A529s . Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
![]() | Architectural drawing for a fraternal lodge ("Proposed Masonic Temple"), Connecticut Avenue and Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Bird's eye perspective. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Toledo Scale Company, Precision Laboratory Group. Bird's eye view of factory development model for a 1929 project for an industrial laboratory complex] / A.B. Bogart, photographer, N.Y.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Bird's eye view of San Francisco. Drawn from Meream's model & nature., July 1852 / lith. & published by Britton & Rey, San Franco. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Bird's eye view of El Paso from Mesa Heights. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The future Washington, bird's eye view. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Bird's eye view of Navy Yard, Charlestown, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Expressions using "bird's eye": bird's eye view ♦ red bird's eye. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "bird's eye"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vështrim i përgjithshëm (bird's eye view, survey), pamje nga lart (bird's eye view). (various references) | |
Arabic | نظرة عامة (bird's eye view, preview, survey), تحليقي (bird's eye view). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обширна гледка (bird's eye view). (various references) | |
Czech | pohled z ptaèí perspektivy (bird's eye view). (various references) | |
Danish | påfugleøje (birdseye). (various references) | |
French | tissu oeil (birdseye), oeil-de-perdrix (birdseye). (various references) | |
German | Pfauenauge (peacock (butterfly)). (various references) | |
Greek | υπιφανειακότητα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | madártávlat (bird's eye view). (various references) | |
Italian | Occhio di pernice (birdseye). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鳥瞰 (bird's eye view), 下瞰 (getting a bird's eye view, looking down on). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かか" (between equipment, bold, coming of age ceremony, corolla, determined, garland, getting a bird's eye view, looking down on, Milky Way, resolute, wreath), ちょうか" (bird's eye view, chief, morning newspaper, secretary). (various references) | |
Manx | foillycan (bird's eye see {foillican}, butterfly, germander). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ird'sbay eyeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | olho de perdiz (birdseye). (various references) | |
Romanian | vedere panoramicã (bird's eye view, panorama), privire panoramicã (bird's eye view), privire generalã (bird's eye view, conspectus). (various references) | |
Russian | вид с птичьего полета (bird's eye view, bird's-eye view). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ptičija perspektiva (bird's eye view). (various references) | |
Spanish | ojo de perdiz (birdseye). (various references) | |
Swedish | fågelperspektive (birds eye view, bird's eye view, birds-eye-view), fågelperspektiv (birds eye view, bird's eye view). (various references) | |
Turkish | yavşanotu (Speedwell, Veronica), veronika (Veronica), kumaş deseni, kuşbakışı (panoramic), ince kıyım tütün (return). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-b-d-e-e-i-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: birdseye. | |
-2 letters: derbies, ribeyes. | |
-3 letters: beside, biders, bredes, breeds, brides, debris, debyes, desire, eiders, eyries, rebids, redyes, reside, ribeye. | |
-4 letters: beers, beery, bider, bides, biers, birds, birse, brede, breed, brees, bride, bries, byres, debye, deers, derby, drees, dribs, dries, dyers, eider, eyers, eyres, eyrie, rebid, redes, redye, reeds, reedy, resid, ribes, rides, seder, seedy. | |
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