eyeball
Syllables: eye·ballUK/ˈaɪ.bɔːl//ˈaɪ.bɔl/
eyeball noun: the ball of the eye.
Noun
eyeball (plural eyeballs)
- The ball of the eye.
- Near-synonym: eye
- You'll change your mind about not bothering with safety glasses once you've injured your eyeball. That's called closing the barn door after the horse gets out.
- Synonyms:
- globe, globus, globus oculi, eyeglobe, bulbus oculi, bulbus, eye
- An instance of eyeballing something.
- Give this report an eyeball, will you please?
- Surveillance.
- 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.2016, Marie Breen-Smyth, The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence, page 384
- A readership or viewership.
- We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs.
- When The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power debuted at the same time as House of the Dragon, much noise was made about which show attracted more eyeballs.2022 October 17, Stuart Heritage, “Now it’s over, let’s come out and say it: The Rings of Power was a stinker”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2023
- A face-to-face meeting.
- We had an eyeball last year.
- A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.
Verb
eyeball (third-person singular simple present eyeballs, present participle eyeballing, simple past and past participle eyeballed)
- To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.
- A good cook can often just eyeball the correct quantities of ingredients.
- Each geometric construction must be exact; eyeballing it and getting close does not count.
- Synonyms:
- eye up
- To stare at intently.
- Are you eyeballing my girl?
- Synonyms:
- eye up
- To roll one's eyes.
- 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...2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London), archived from the original on 16 Jul 2019
eyeball meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
eyeball in Hindi
- नेत्रगोलक, आँख का गोला, नेत्रगोलिका
eyeball in Tamil
- விழிக்கோளம்
eyeball in Marathi
- ball of the eye
- नेत्रगोलक netragolak
eyeball in Urdu
- ڈھیلا
More languagesFewer languages
- eyeball in Bengali
- অক্ষিগোলক okkhigōlok
- eyeball in Telugu
- కనుగుడ్డు kanuguḍḍu
- eyeball in Malayalam
- ബിഡാലം biḍālaṁ, മണി maṇi
- eyeball in Kannada
- ಕಣ್ಣುಗುಡ್ಡೆ, ಗುಡ್ಡೆ, ಕಣ್ಣಾಲೆ, ಗುಡ್ಡಿ
- eyeball in Punjabi
- ਡੇਲਾ ḍellā, ਆਨਾ ānā
- eyeball in Gujarati
- ડોળો ḍoḷo
- eyeball in Sanskrit
- नेत्रपिण्ड netrapiṇḍa, बिडाल biḍāla
- eyeball in Nepali
- आँखाको गेडी ā̃khāko geḍī
- eyeball in Tagalog
- buliga, bilumata
- eyeball in Arabic
- مُقْلَة اَلْعَيْن muqlat al-ʕayn
- eyeball in Thai
- ลูกตา
- eyeball in Vietnamese
- cầu mắt, nhãn cầu
Examples of eyeball in a sentence
- Suddenly his eyeballs are glazed with tears.2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the...
- 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.2018 April 10, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London)...
Synonyms of eyeball
Forms of eyeball
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | eyeballs |
| alternative form (obsolete) | eye-ball |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | eyeballs |
| present participle | eyeballing |
| past participle | eyeballed |
| past | eyeballed |
Origin of eyeball
From eye + ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe eyȝe (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).
Words formed from eyeball
Phrases with eyeball
Questions about eyeball
- What does eyeball mean?
- Eyeball means the ball of the eye.
- What is eyeball in Hindi?
- Eyeball in Hindi is नेत्रगोलक, आँख का गोला, नेत्रगोलिका. See Eyeball meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use eyeball in a sentence?
- Suddenly his eyeballs are glazed with tears.
- What part of speech is eyeball?
- Eyeball can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce eyeball?
- Eyeball is pronounced /ˈaɪ.bɔːl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of eyeball?
- The plural of eyeball is eyeballs.
Words near eyeball in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: eyeball (page history and authors); eyeball (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); eyeball (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); eyeball (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অক্ষিগোলক (Bengali) (page history and authors); ബിഡാലം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); eyeball (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਆਨਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ડોળો (Gujarati) (page history and authors); नेत्रपिण्ड (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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