eyeball

«eyeball» in Mova's school dictionary: the round ball of the eye, most of which sits inside your… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an eyeball, eyeballs); verb (eyeball, eyeballs, eyeballed, eyeballing — informal)

meaning for a pupil

1) An eyeball is the round ball of the eye, most of which sits inside your head. tree →

2) (informal) To eyeball someone or something is to look at them hard, often in a challenging or rude way. tree →

3) (informal) To eyeball an amount is to guess it just by looking, without measuring. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on the body, the eyeball has the pupil, iris, lens and retina, and is moved by six muscles. In everyday talk: «eyeball to eyeball» means face to face in an argument; «up to my eyeballs in homework» means very busy. In maths, «eyeballing» is estimating: good for a quick check, but measure for an exact answer. Phrases: «eyeball to eyeball», «up to your eyeballs», «eyeball it».

examples

• The eyeball is about the size of a large grape. tree →
• We looked at a model of the eyeball in science. tree →
• The two cats eyeballed each other across the fence. tree →
• I'm up to my eyeballs in homework this week. tree →
• Don't just eyeball it, measure the line with a ruler. tree →
• At Halloween we ate jelly eyeballs. tree →
• I will sing you the praise of the bottle-tailed Rikki, with eyeballs of red! tree →

note

One word. «Eyeball» as a verb is informal. Maths: eyeballing gives an estimate, not an exact measurement.

In the corpora

• A frog swallows prey whole and pulls its eyeballs down into its head to help push the food down its throat.
• Picture a crested gecko licking its own eyeball: it has no moving eyelids, so its tongue is its windscreen wiper.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «eyeball» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.