eyeball

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈaɪ.bɔːl/    美 /ˈaɪ.bɔl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The ball of the eye.
    — Near-synonym: eye
  2. An instance of eyeballing something.
    — Give this report an eyeball, will you please?
  3. Surveillance. informal
    — Intelligence work is necessarily limited in scope by the capacity of national surveillance systems. […] Ultimately, it is only when you have an 'eyeball' or the electronic equivalent on a suspect that you have a reasonable chance of a preventive intervention.
  4. A readership or viewership. in-plural
    — We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs.
  5. A face-to-face meeting. slang
    — We had an eyeball last year.
  6. A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye. Caribbean
动词 v.
  1. To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at. informal,transitive
    — A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.
  2. To stare at intently. informal,transitive
    — Are you eyeballing my girl?
  3. To roll one's eyes. intransitive
    — Guardiola strode on to the pitch at half-time to remonstrate with the Spanish referee, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, but went too far with his eyeballing and matador-like hand movements. He was “upstairs”, in the Colin Bell stand, to watch Liverpool’s second-half turnaround and a dismal seven days for City take another turn for the worse.

词形变化

eyeballs plural eye-ball alternative,obsolete eyeballs present,singular,third-person eyeballing participle,present eyeballed participle,past eyeballed past eye-ball alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
eye-apple
衍生词
eyeball queen eyeball to eyeball given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow hairy eyeball mark 1 eyeball my eyeball sailor's eyeball up to one's eyeballs eyeballer
相关词
bums in seats click-through

词源

词源 1
From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).
词源 2
From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).
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