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Definition: Eyeball |
EyeballNoun1. The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye. Verb1. Look at. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eyeball" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Globe or ball of the eye. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The globe or ball of the eye. . . . . the vitreous body. . . occupies the central cavity of the eyeball, or globe. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Terms descriptive of the direction of the acceleration felt at the human spine during ejection. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: EyeballSynonyms: orb (n), eye (v). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Have you ever had a whitehead on your eyeball, Mary (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss) Eeey, nice eyeball, eyeball (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) I'll tell you Arthur, the checkout lady was giving me the hairy eyeball. (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond) | |
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Dean Rusk | We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked. |
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Health | Sclera - Outer coat of the eyeball. (references) | |
Rapid, rhythmic, involuntary movements of the eyeball (nystagmus) is common. (references) | ||
In some cases a scleral buckle, a tiny synthetic band, is attached to the outside of the eyeball to gently push the wall of the eye against the detached retina. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Eyeball" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.73% of the time. "Eyeball" is used about 79 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) | 98.73% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 79 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "eyeball": eyeball search. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "eyeball": eyeball-photographed, eyeball-to-eyeball. | |
Ending with "eyeball": eyeball-to-eyeball. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "eyeball"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kokërdhok (orb). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقلة العين. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | очна ябълка (apple, globe, orb, orbit). (various references) | |
Chinese | 眼珠. (various references) | |
Czech | bulva oèní. (various references) | |
Danish | oejeaeble (bulbus oculi, globe). (various references) | |
Dutch | oogbol (bulbus oculi, globe). (various references) | |
Finnish | silmämuna. (various references) | |
French | sens d'accélération, globe oculaire (eye ball). (various references) | |
German | Augapfel (bulbus oculi, globe). (various references) | |
Greek | βολβός (bulb). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עדשה (freckle, lens, lentil), גלגל העין (orb). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemgolyó (orb). (various references) | |
Indonesian | biji mata. (various references) | |
Italian | bulbo oculare. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 眼 (eye). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がんきゅう (the whole class, whole), まなこ (eye), めのたま, めだま (loss leader), め (eye, sprout). (various references) | |
Korean | 안구. (various references) | |
Manx | clagh-hooilley. (various references) | |
Norwegian | øyeeple. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eyeballay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | globo ocular (globe). (various references) | |
Romanian | pupilã (pupil), globul ocular. (various references) | |
Russian | глазное яблоко (ball of the eye, orb). (various references) | |
Sepedi | thaka ya leihlo. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | očna jabučica. (various references) | |
Spanish | e eyeballe, globo ocular (ball, eyebrow), globo del ojo (ball of the eye). (various references) | |
Swedish | ögonglob. (various references) | |
Thai | ลูกตา. (various references) | |
Turkish | göz küresi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | очне яблуко. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhãn cầu, cầu mắt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eyeball": eyeballed, eyeballing, eyeballs. (additional references) | |
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"Eyeball" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dyball, Eyebe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eyeball" (pronounced ī"bô'l) |
| 3 | -b ô' l | basketball, blackball, butterball, cannonball, fastball, fireball, football, handball, hardball, softball, spitball, stickball, meatball, mothball, oddball, pinball, racquetball, screwball, snowball, softball, trackball, volleyball. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-l-l-y" | |
-2 letters: abele, allee, alley, bally, belay, belle, belly, label. | |
-3 letters: able, ably, abye, alee, ally, bale, ball, bell, blae, eely, leal, yell. | |
-4 letters: aby, alb, ale, all, aye, bal, bay, bee, bel, bey, bye, eel, ell, eye, lab, lay, lea, lee, ley, lye, yea. | |
-5 letters: ab, ae, al, ay, ba, be, by, el, la, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-l-l-y" | |
+1 letter: eyeballs. | |
+2 letters: belatedly, bellyache, eyeballed, jellybean. | |
+3 letters: believably, bellyached, bellyacher, bellyaches, cerebrally, delectably, deployable, employable, eyeballing, jellybeans, plebeianly, recyclable. | |
+4 letters: bellyachers, blamelessly, elaborately, employables, recyclables. | |
+5 letters: beneficially, breathlessly, bullheadedly, decasyllable, deliberately, electability, unbelievably, unemployable, unrecyclable. | |
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