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Hawk-eyed

Definition: Hawk-eyed

Hawk-eyed

Adjective

1. Having very keen vision; "quick-sighted as a cat".

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

Synonyms: Hawk-eyed

Synonyms: argus-eyed (adj), keen-sighted (adj), lynx-eyed (adj), quick-sighted (adj), sharp-eyed (adj), sharp-sighted (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Hawk-eyed

"Hawk-eyed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hawk-eyed" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hawk-eyed

Language Translations for "hawk-eyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

syskifter, syshqiponjë, syfajkua. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

с орлов поглед, бдителен (alert, awake, jealous, observant, open-eyed, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake). (various references)

   

Czech

  

bystrozraký (clear-sighted, perspicacious, sharp-sighted). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sasszemû (sharp-sighted). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

awk-eyedhay

   

Portuguese

  

vendedor ambulante (cadger, chapman, colporteur, haberdasher, hawk, hawker, huckster, pack saddle, peddlar, peddler, pedlar, pedlary, peripatetic, Tranter), atento (argus-eyed, attentive, careful, intent, mindful, observation, regardful, wary, watchful). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cu privire atentã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бдительный (alert, Argus-eyed, open-eyed, unsleeping, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, ware, watchful, wide awake, wide-awake), имеющий острое зрение. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oka sokolovog. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

con ojos de lince (with eagle eye). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vaksam (all eyes, on the alert, open-eared, open-eyed, vigilant, wakeful, watchful), falkögd. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ซึ่งมีตาที่แหลมคมเหมือนตาเหยี่ยว. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

keskin gözlü (eagle-eyed, lynx-eyed, quick-sighted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted), şahin gözlü. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

гострозорий (sharp-eyed), пильний (alert, attentive, awake, circumspect, circumspective, dusty, open-eyed, sleepless, staring, vigilant, ware, wide awake). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

có mắt tinh. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hawk-eyed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hawkeyed.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-k-w-y"

-1 letter: weekday.

-2 letters: hawked, hawkey.

-3 letters: hawed, hayed, heady, hewed, keyed, kheda, waked, weedy, yawed.

-4 letters: akee, awed, awee, dawk, deke, dewy, dhak, dyke, eked, eyed, hade, haed, hake, hawk, head, heed, wade, wady, wake, weak, weed, week, weka, whee, whey, yeah.

-5 letters: awe, aye, dah, dak, daw, day, dee, dew, dey, dye, edh, eke, ewe, eye, had, hae, haw, hay, hew, hey, kae, kay, kea, key, wad, wae, way, wed, wee, wha, why, wye, yah, yak, yaw, yea, yeh, yew.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hawk-eyed


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

48 61 77 6B 2D 65 79 65 64

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

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

01001000 01100001 01110111 01101011 00101101 01100101 01111001 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#119 &#107 &#45 &#101 &#121 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0077 006B 002D 0065 0079 0065 0064

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

426789771571917170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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