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Definition: Eye Contact |
Eye ContactNoun1. Contact that occurs when two people look directly at each other; "a teacher should make eye contact with the students". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Screenplays | So avoid eye contact, watch your pocketbook, and suspect everyone (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Keep eye contact. Funny is good, but don't be glib (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) You can't even make eye contact. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) | |
Lyrics | I hope 2 find her there gotta make some eye contact she's not the kind to stare (There She Goes; performing artist: Babyface) | |
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Health | The child has poor eye contact. (references) | |
Other early symptoms may include problems crawling or walking and diminished eye contact. (references) | ||
Another common visual problem is an inability to maintain eye contact during a conversation. (references) | ||
Travel | Sweden | If one remembers to make strong eye contact before and after a "toast" and not to drink until the host "toasts" you, the rest will fall into place. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eye contact | 339 |
cat eye contact | 25 |
color eye contact | 25 |
colored eye contact | 23 |
cat eye contact lens | 16 |
eye contact lens | 10 |
flirting and eye contact | 5 |
body language eye contact | 3 |
black eye contact | 2 |
eye contact red | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-n-o-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: contactee. | |
-3 letters: acetone, coenact, contact, toccate. | |
-4 letters: accent, cenote, cetane, coatee, cottae, notate, octane, octant, tenace, tetany. | |
-5 letters: atone, atony, canoe, canto, canty, catty, cento, coact, coney, conte, cotan, cotta, cyano, cyton, eaten, enact, enate, natty, netty, oaten, ocean, octan, octet, tacet, tanto, tecta, teeny, tenet, tenty, toney, yenta, yente. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-n-o-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: actinomycete. | |
+3 letters: actinomycetes, cytogenetical. | |
+4 letters: concentratedly, pancreatectomy. | |
+5 letters: cytogenetically, geotectonically, oxytetracycline. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 79 65 43 6F 6E 74 61 63 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111001 01100101 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101110 01110100 01100001 01100011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E y e   C o n t a c t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0079 0065 0043 006F 006E 0074 0061 0063 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)399171237818086676986 |
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