One-eyed

  

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One-eyed

Definition: One-eyed

One-eyed

Adjective

1. Having or showing only one eye; "one-eyed Jacks are wild"; "the three one-eyed Cyclopes of Greek myth".

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

Date "one-eyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Specialty Definitions: One-eyed

DomainDefinitions

Dream Interpretation

To see one-eyed creatures in your dreams, is portentous of an over-whelming intimation of secret intriguing against your fortune and happiness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

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

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Crosswords: One-eyed

Specialty definitions using "one-eyed": ArimaspiansEyeOne-EyedPEEPERSSEVEN-SIDED ANIMALULYSSES. (references)
Etymologies containing "one-eyed": Polyphemus. (references)

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Modern Usage: One-eyed

DomainUsage

Screenplays

So, tell me, my little one-eyed one. On what poor, pitiful defenseless planet has my monstrosity been unleashed? (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders)

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. (Minority Report; writing credit: Scott Frank)

I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man. (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts)

I'm crazy? Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Seems to me a man would remember an ugly one-eyed coward six and a half foot tall with no hair and a sissy hat. (The Magnificent Seven; writing credit: Josef Anderson; Chris Black)

Lyrics

I'm like a one-eyed cat, ("Shake Rattle and Roll"; performing artist: Joe Turner)

Movie/TV Titles

One-Eyed Jacks (1961)

Alone in the Dark: One-Eyed Jack's Revenge (1995)

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

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Commercial Usage: One-eyed

DomainTitle

Books

  • Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State (Hellenistic Culture and Society, No 4) (reference)

  • Not to Reason Why: The Story of a One-Eyed Infantryman in World War II (reference)

  • One-Eyed Dream (reference)

  • One-Eyed Science: Occupational Health and Women Workers (Labor and Social Change) (reference)

  • One-eyed sky (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Image Slideshow: One-eyed

Computer Images:
One-eyed

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Photo Album: One-eyed

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The one-eyed chief of Santa Maria. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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

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Familiar Quotations: One-eyed

AuthorQuotation

Desiderius Erasmus

In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: One-eyed

"One-eyed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "One-eyed" is used about 59 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%5944,010

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

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Modern Translations: One-eyed

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

Chinese 

  

独眼. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

silmäpuoli. (various references)

   

French

  

borgne (one eyed). (various references)

   

German

  

glotze (boob tube, box, gogglebox, one-eyed monster). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félszemű, egyoldalú (nude, one sided, one track, one-sided, unilateral). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

独眼 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

どくが" (self-justified, self-righteousness). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lieh-hooillagh (monocular). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

one-eyeday

   

Russian 

  

одноглазый (monocular, one eyed, single-eyed). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

một mắt, chột. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

coeg (blind, empty, vain). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: One-eyed

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

luscos, luscum, unoculum. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

monoculus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: One-eyed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-n-o-y"

-2 letters: donee, doyen, needy.

-3 letters: dene, deny, done, dyne, eyed, eyen, eyne, need, node, yond.

-4 letters: dee, den, dey, doe, don, dye, end, eon, eye, nee, nod, ode, one, yen, yod, yon.

-5 letters: de, do, ed, en, ne, no, od, oe, on, oy, ye, yo.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-n-o-y"
 

+2 letters: goldeneye, reenjoyed.

 

+3 letters: endoenzyme, goldeneyes, heterodyne, reconveyed.

 

+4 letters: deoxygenate, endoenzymes, heterodyned, heterodynes, moneylender.

 

+5 letters: cockeyedness, codependency, deoxygenated, deoxygenates, moneylenders, redeployment.

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

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Alternative Orthography: One-eyed


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

4F 6E 65 2D 65 79 65 64

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

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

01001111 01101110 01100101 00101101 01100101 01111001 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#110 &#101 &#45 &#101 &#121 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 006E 0065 002D 0065 0079 0065 0064

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

4980711571917170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Usage Frequency
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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