Squint

[skwɪnt]

解释:

(noun.) the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed.

(verb.) cross one's eyes as if in strabismus; 'The children squinted so as to scare each other'.

(verb.) partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light; 'The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield'.

(verb.) be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus.

整理:朱莉安娜--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.

(n.) Fig.: Looking askance.

(v. i.) To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.

(v. i.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.

(v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.

(v. t.) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.

(v. t.) To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.

(n.) The act or habit of squinting.

(n.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.

(n.) Same as Hagioscope.

整理:苏西

同义词及近义词：

v. n. Look askant, look askance, look obliquely.

伊莉斯校对

解释:

adj. looking obliquely: having the vision distorted.—v.i. to look obliquely: to have the vision distorted.—v.t. to cause to squint.—n. act or habit of squinting: an oblique look: distortion of vision: a hagioscope a narrow aperture cut in the wall of a church (generally about two feet wide) to enable persons standing in the side-chapels &c. to see the elevation of the host at the high-altar.—n. Squint′-eye an eye that squints.—adj. Squint′-eyed looking obliquely: oblique malignant.—n. Squint′ing technically Strabismus a common deformity which may be defined as a want of parallelism in the visual axes when the patient endeavours to direct both eyes to an object at the same time.—adv. Squint′ingly.

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