Definitions for eyeball
ˈaɪˌbɔleye·ball

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eyeball, orbverb

   the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye

2. eye, eyeballverb

   look at

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eyeballnoun

   the ball of the eye

2. eyeballverb

   To gauge, estimate or judge by eye; to look or glance at.

3. eyeballverb

   To scrutinize

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Eyeballnoun

   The apple of the eye; the pupil.

   Etymology: eye and ball.

   Oh, were mine eyeballs into bullets turn’d,
   That I in rage might shoot them at your faces! William Shakespeare, H. VI.

   Be subject to no sight but mine: invisible
   To every eyeball else. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

   I feel my hair grow stiff, my eyeballs rowl;
   This is the only form could shake my soul. John Dryden, Ind. Emp.

   Not when a gilt buffet’s reflected pride
   Turns you from sound philosophy aside,
   Not when from plate to plate your eyeballs roll,
   And the brain dances to the mantling bowl. Alexander Pope, Horace.

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1. eyeball

   Eyes are organs of the visual system. They provide living organisms with vision, the ability to receive and process visual detail, as well as enabling several photo response functions that are independent of vision. Eyes detect light and convert it into electro-chemical impulses in neurons (neurones). In higher organisms, the eye is a complex optical system which collects light from the surrounding environment, regulates its intensity through a diaphragm, focuses it through an adjustable assembly of lenses to form an image, converts this image into a set of electrical signals, and transmits these signals to the brain through complex neural pathways that connect the eye via the optic nerve to the visual cortex and other areas of the brain. Eyes with resolving power have come in ten fundamentally different forms, and 96% of animal species possess a complex optical system. Image-resolving eyes are present in molluscs, chordates and arthropods.The most simple eyes, pit eyes, are eye-spots which may be set into a pit to reduce the angle of light that enters and affects the eye-spot, to allow the organism to deduce the angle of incoming light. From more complex eyes, retinal photosensitive ganglion cells send signals along the retinohypothalamic tract to the suprachiasmatic nuclei to effect circadian adjustment and to the pretectal area to control the pupillary light reflex.

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1. eyeball

   An eyeball is a spheroidal structure located in the eye sockets of the skull, constituting the organ of sight in humans and vertebrate animals. It contains parts such as the lens, cornea, iris, retina, and optic nerve, which work together to capture and process light, enabling vision.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Eyeballnoun

   the ball or globe of the eye

The Roycroft DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eyeball

   1. A small, miraculous globe that has the power to fabulize the external universe. 2. The spectacles of the brain; the peephole of consciousness.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eyeball

   A facet of the mechanism of an eye.

   They eyeball is circular in shape and turns to view things.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 2, 2020  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of eyeball in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of eyeball in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of eyeball in a Sentence

1. Dick Gregory:

   Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

2. Jerry Coleman:

   Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

3. Jayce Tingler:

   It’s absolutely electric. Jake Cronenworth and rookie come out of the tunnel and you get to the dugout and you can just feel the energy, manager Jayce Tingler can hear it as Manager Jayce Tingler walk down the tunnel. The anthem goes on and Manager Jayce Tingler eyeball the stadium and it’s packed.

4. Senate Budget:

   We have work to do, everybody is coming back from the August recess. It's our chance to square off, see one another eyeball-to-eyeball but try to work out our differences. But there are clearly differences.

5. Katie Gaydos:

   It's stuck to my eyelids and my eyeball and it really hurts.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=eyeball
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eyeball
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=eyeball
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyeball
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eyeball
7. ^ The Roycroft Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36566/36566-h/36566-h.htm#:~:text=eyeball