What does red-eye mean?

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red-eye

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. redeye, redeye flightverb

    a night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep

    "he took the redeye in order to get home the next morning"

  2. red-eyeverb

    travel on an overnight flight

    "The candidate red-eyed from California to the East Coast the night before the election to give a last stump speech"

Wiktionary

  1. red-eyenoun

    An overnight airplane flight.

    I waited too late to book my holiday flight, so I had to take the red-eye.

  2. red-eyenoun

    The rudd.

  3. red-eyeadjective

    Overnight: said of airplane flights.

ChatGPT

  1. red-eye

    Red-eye is a common phenomenon in photography where a person's eye appears red in color in photographs, especially those taken using flash in low light environments. It is caused by reflection of light from the blood vessels in the eye. It can also refer to overnight or late night flights, where one travels through the night, often leading to tired or red eyes. In a medical context, it refers to the reddening of the white part of the eye due to irritation, infection, or inflammation.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of red-eye in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of red-eye in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of red-eye in a Sentence

  1. Dan Crenshaw:

    I've still got some pain and inflammation, you can see that. I have a pretty red eye. But doctors are optimistic. I've been to various follow-up appointments by now. And the retina is staying in place, which means we're hopeful I'll return to some sense of normalcy in the next couple of months. Which means I can correct my vision basically back to normal again, so that's what we're hoping for and we're optimistic that will happen. I will be back with you soon enough.

  2. Shreya Prabhu:

    They’ll do things like check pupils, how well they seem to see with each eye, do an external exam and look for a red reflux in the retina… that (red eye) when people take pictures, if you don’t see that red spot in the center of the eye, there could be something in the eye like a cataract or other things obscuring that.

  3. Sean Penn:

    I’m doing well, you’ve inherited a little of the Ambien I had to take to get to sleep after a red eye last night.

  4. Father David Duane:

    They took this situation and did something nice for others and then took the red eye out of here to Belize.

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