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Definition: Eyestrain |
EyestrainNoun1. A tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: EyestrainSynonym: asthenopia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Eyestrain |
| Specialty definitions using "eyestrain": raster burn. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Traction headaches can occur if the pain-sensitive parts of the head are pulled, stretched, or displaced, as, for example, when eye muscles are tensed to compensate for eyestrain. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Eyestrain" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eyestrain" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
eyestrain | 21 |
computer eyestrain | 4 |
eyestrain symptom | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eyestrain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 累眼. (various references) | |
Dutch | visuele vermoeidheid. (various references) | |
French | fatigue visuelle. (various references) | |
German | Augenschmerzen, Augenermüdung. (various references) | |
Greek | οπτική κόπωση. (various references) | |
Italian | disturbo visivo funzionale. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 眼精疲労 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がんせいひろう. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eyestrainay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fadiga ocular. (various references) | |
Russian | напряжение глаз. (various references) | |
Spanish | cansancio de los órganos visuales, astenopía (asthenopia, eye strain). (various references) | |
Turkish | göz yorgunluğu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eyestrain": eyestrains. (additional references) | |
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"Eyestrain" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nemestrina, systran. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eyestrain" (pronounced ī"strā'n) |
| 4 | -t r ā' n | seatrain. |
| 3 | -r ā' n | forebrain, membrane, migraine. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: arenites, arsenite, resinate, serenity, stearine, trainees, yeastier. | |
-2 letters: aeriest, anestri, antsier, arenite, earnest, eastern, entires, entries, etesian, nastier, nearest, ratines, retains, retinae, retinas, retines, retsina, seriate, stainer, stearin, styrene, syenite, trainee, trienes, yestern. | |
-3 letters: aeries, airest, antres, aretes, arisen, arsine, astern, easier, easter, eaters, eatery, enates, entera, enters, entire, estray, estrin, eyries, inerts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: eyestrains. | |
+2 letters: antipyreses, antisecrecy, interlayers, sedimentary. | |
+3 letters: arsenopyrite, glycerinates, intervalleys, presbyterian, restrainedly, secretionary. | |
+4 letters: arsenopyrites, considerately, dynamometries, everlastingly, intersexually, nearsightedly, residentially, semisedentary, sempiternally, tetracyclines, unassertively. | |
+5 letters: cholestyramine, conservatively, cyberneticians, estrogenically, exasperatingly, hypnotherapies, intersexuality, laryngectomies, presentability, presidentially, pyrimethamines, seronegativity, unrestrainedly. | |
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