(n.) The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus.
(n.) The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.
(n.) The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion.
(n.) The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence.
(n.) That which resembles the organ of sight, in form, position, or appearance
(n.) The spots on a feather, as of peacock.
(n.) The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop.
(n.) The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a potato.
(n.) The center of a target; the bull's-eye.
(n.) A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress.
(n.) The hole through the head of a needle.
(n.) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope.
(n.) The hole through the upper millstone.
(n.) That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
(n.) Tinge; shade of color.
(v. t.) To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention; to hold in view.
(v. i.) To appear; to look.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
(2) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
(3) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(4) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(5) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
(6) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
(7) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(8) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(9) When the eye was dissected into anterior uveal, scleral, and retinal complexes, prostaglandin D2 was formed in the highest degree in all the complexes, whereas prostaglandin E2 and F2 alpha formation was specific to given ocular regions.
(10) Eye movements which were either complementary or in opposition to the induced vestibular nystagmus were produced with an optokinetic drum.
(11) Immunoblotting with glycoprotein preparations from human eye muscle; 3.
(12) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(13) Displacement of the surface of the cornea of bovine eyes after disruption of intact structures was investigated by means of holographic interferometry.
(14) The mean preoperative intraocular pressure (IOP) of 43.9 mmHg in the eyes with neovascular glaucoma was reduced to 17.4 mmHg after a mean follow-up of 20.2 months.
(15) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(16) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(17) The nature of the putative autoantigen in Graves' ophthalmopathy (Go) remains an enigma but the sequence similarity between thyroglobulin (Tg) and acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) provides a rationale for epitopes which are common to the thyroid gland and the eye orbit.
(18) The authors examined an eye obtained post-mortem from a patient with chronic granulomatous disease of childhood and clinically apparent chorioretinal scars.
(19) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(20) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
Sandman
Definition:
(n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.
Example Sentences:
(1) And in grace notes that run through it, partly in the huger themes, Morpheus, Dream, the eponymous Sandman has one title that means more to me than any other.
(2) Not horror, although I plan a few moments that are up there with anything I did in Sandman , and not strictly fantasy either.
(3) He’s set to play a serial killer in The Sandman, the latest horror film from Italian master Dario Argento.
(4) When I needed to write a Sandman story set in hell, I played Reed's Metal Machine Music (which I've described as "four sides of tape hum, on the kinds of frequencies that drive animals with particularly sensitive hearing to throw themselves off cliffs and cause blind unreasoning panic in crowds" all day for two weeks.
(5) The four adaptation techniques compared were: Simultaneous Dichotic Loudness Balance technique (SDLB; Hood, 1950), Magnitude Estimated Binaural technique (MEB; Botté, Canévet, & Scharf, 1982), Magnitude Estimated Monaural technique, (MEM; Weiler, Sandman, & Pederson, 1981), and the Monaural Reaction Time technique (RT; Davis & Weiler, 1976).
(6) For theoretical reasons, subjects were also classified by degree of stereotypic behavior on the Fairview Problem Behavior Checklist (Barron & Sandman, 1983).
(7) Reed always did the exact opposite of what he was expected to do, writes Alexis Petridis • Neil Gaiman on Lou Reed: 'His songs were the soundtrack to my life' Sandman would not have happened without Lou Reed – and I named my daughter after Warhol's Holly Woodlawn, from Walk on the Wild Side.
(8) Sandman celebrates the marginalised, the people out on the edges.
(9) And it came from Stephen King twenty years ago, at the height of the success of Sandman.
(10) The previously-announced Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice will arrive in May 2016, with films based on Shazam and Sandman in July and December of the same year.
(11) Gaiman has fallen foul of US censors before, with his Sandman graphic novel series regularly making the list of banned or challenged books compiled by the American Library Association (ALA), with claims of being "anti-family", featuring offensive language, or being deemed "unsuited to age group".
(12) The Sinister Six has comprised various of Spider-Man's enemies over the years, but a classic lineup might include Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Electro, The Vulture, Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter.
(13) Representative Charles Sandman also called for President Nixon's impeachment, becoming the sixth of the ten Republicans on the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee who had voted against such action to change his mind.
(14) Only last month, the advertising watchdog banned a radio skit featuring the rewritten lyrics from the 1950s song Mr Sandman: "You make it easy when the month feels too long.
(15) King had liked Sandman and my novel with Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, and he saw the madness, the long signing lines, all that, and his advice was this: “This is really great.
(16) Patrick Barkham on the boom in motor sales • Wonga's "Mr Sandman" ad banned – payday lender's radio jingle was "irresponsible" says ASA Daft deal Tea-time economics?
(17) Sandman, the comic that made my name, would not have happened without Reed.
(18) Here, we propose a semi-automated adaptation of Sandman's manual method for the Monarch centrifugal analyzer.
(19) Since Metallica added its back catalogue to Spotify, the band’s most popular track, Nothing Else Matters, streamed more than 9.1m times, while Enter Sandman has notched up 9m streams.
(20) By recording phasic heart-rate it would be possible to elucidate 1982 findings of Walker and Sandman that changes in heart-rate are differentially related to the right and left cerebral hemispheres.