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eyeball

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English

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Etymology

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Fromeye +‎ball. CompareMiddle Englishballe off the eye,balle of þe eyȝe(“eyeball”, literally“ball of the eye”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eyeball (pluraleyeballs)

  2. Theball of theeye.
    • 1610–1611 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene ii],page 4, column 2:
      Goe make thy ſelfe like a Nymph o' th' Sea.
      Be ſubiect to no ſight but thine, and mine: inuisible
      To eueryeye-ball elſe: goe take this ſhape,
      And hither come in't: goe: hence
      With diligence.
  3. A person'sfocus ofattention.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
  4. (informal)Surveillance.
    • 2016, Marie Breen-Smyth,The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence, page384:
      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.
  5. (marketing, in theplural) Areadership orviewership.
    We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract moreeyeballs.
    • 2022 October 17, Stuart Heritage, “Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:
      WhenThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power debuted at the same time asHouse of the Dragon, much noise was made about which show attracted moreeyeballs.
  6. (CB radio, slang) Aface-to-facemeeting.
    We had aneyeball last year.
  7. (Caribbean) A favourite or pet; theapple of someone's eye.

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Derived terms

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Translations

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ball of the eye

Verb

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eyeball (third-person singular simple presenteyeballs,present participleeyeballing,simple past and past participleeyeballed)

  1. (transitive, informal) Togauge,estimate orjudge by eye, rather thanmeasuringprecisely; tolook orglance at.
    A good cook can often justeyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.
    Each geometric construction must be exact;eyeballing it and getting close does not count.
  2. (transitive, informal) Tostare at intently.
    Are youeyeballing my girl?
  3. (intransitive) Toroll one's eyes.
    • 2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, inThe Guardian (London)‎[2]:
      Guardiola strode on to the pitch at half-time to remonstrate with the Spanish referee, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, but went too far with hiseyeballing 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.

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Translations

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to judge by eye
to stare—seestare

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