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Glass Eye

Definition: Glass Eye

Glass Eye

Noun

1. Prosthesis consisting of an artificial eye made of glass.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Glass Eye

English words defined with "glass eye": Dipleidoscope, DynameterHadley's quadrantParallax of the cross wires, PolemoscopeVolumescope. (references)
Specialty definitions using "glass eye": AMPOULE EXAMINERcathode ray tubeEYE-DROPPER ASSEMBLERGlass-eyeREDUCING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references)

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Modern Usage: Glass Eye

DomainUsage

Screenplays

All those Stars Hollow moms looked alike, except for Lane's mom and that one mom with the freaky glass eye that never moved. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

Lyrics

I just stare with my one glass eye hoping you won't be back again (Cyclops Rock; performing artist: They Might Be Giants)

Movie/TV Titles

The Man with the Glass Eye (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Glass Eye

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  glass eye

67

  glass eye studio

13

  glass eye dropper

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Glass Eye

Language Translations for "glass eye"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

tupý pohled. (various references)

   

German

  

Glasauge (Atlantic argentine, frostfish, great silver smelt, herring smelt, Pacific argentine, scabbard fish, scabbardfish, silver scabbardfish, smelt, walleye). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

assglay eyeay

   

Swedish

  

emaljöga. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

takma göz. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Glass Eye

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eyeglass.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-s-s-y"

-1 letter: ageless.

-2 letters: eagles, easels, eyases, glassy, leases, lyases, sagely.

-3 letters: aglee, agley, eagle, easel, eases, elegy, essay, gales, gases, gassy, glass, glees, gleys, lases, lease, leges, lyase, lyses, lyssa, sages, sales, seals, seels, seely, slags, slays, yeses.

-4 letters: agee, ages, agly, alee, ales, ayes, ease, easy, eels, eely, egal, else, eses, eyas, eyes, gaes.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-s-s-y"
 

+1 letter: agelessly.

 

+2 letters: eyeglasses.

 

+3 letters: gracelessly.

 

+4 letters: aggressively, changelessly, regardlessly.

 

+5 letters: meaninglessly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Glass Eye


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 6C 61 73 73      45 79 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110011 00100000 01000101 01111001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#108 &#97 &#115 &#115 &#32 &#69 &#121 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 006C 0061 0073 0073      0045 0079 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41786785852399171

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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