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Eye


Definition:

  • (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.
  • (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.) Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard.
  • (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.

Wick


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Wich
  • (n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned.
  • (v. i.) To strike a stone in an oblique direction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I had a not altogether satisfactory talk with Mark this morning" begins a typical confidential memo from Nigel Wicks, Mrs Thatcher's principal private secretary, to the British ambassador in Washington.
  • (2) It’s a wicked thing to do.” Thomson said the federal government had not notified him about approaching boats since 2009.
  • (3) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
  • (4) Fluid pressure changes and digital load measurements were simultaneously detected and recorded by use of, respectively, modified wick-in-needle and force plate transducers coupled to a microcomputer.
  • (5) In cats, brain tissue pressure (BTP) was measured by the wick-catheter method.
  • (6) The lack of knowledge about proper feeding and the use of bottles, fingers, and cotton wicks, which contribute to infection, diarrhea, and malnutrition, indicates a need for better health education.
  • (7) The light stimuli are provided by a Ganzfeld stimulator and the potentials are recorded with a disposable corneal wick electrode.
  • (8) IFP was measured in squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck region in humans using the wick-in-needle technique.
  • (9) Our results on Ap4A are in contrast with those reported previously (C. Weinmann-Dorsch, G. Pierron, R. Wick, H. Sauer, and F. Grummt, Exp.
  • (10) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
  • (11) titration with wicks pre-loaded with serial dilutions of rat plasma implanted post mortem for 15-20 min.
  • (12) Dance, perform, party in Hackney Wick One of my favourite venues in London is The Yard Theatre.
  • (13) Less conventional still is Muff Cafe, a custom-motorbike-workshop-cum-really-rather-good-organic-restaurant in Hackney Wick that a friend recommends on condition that "you don't fill it with Guardian readers".
  • (14) The wick catheter technique was developed in 1968 for measurement of subcutaneous pressure and has been modified for easy intramuscular insertion and continuous recording of interstitial fluid pressure in animals and humans.
  • (15) The corneal wick electrode is employed for bright flash electroretinogram (ERG) recordings and for research measurements of the early receptor potential.
  • (16) In the longer term, there is a risk that local government will be seen as being wicked or incompetent as it struggles to meet George Osborne's new spending figures.
  • (17) His next book was The Great Crash 1929 (1955), a wickedly entertaining account of what happened on Wall Street in that year.
  • (18) The mistake in most international crises is to over-personalise the issue by making a pariah of the wicked man and his corrupt family at the top and thinking that, once they go, all problems will easily be solved.
  • (19) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
  • (20) Tissue pressures were recorded using saline-filled cotton-wool wicks.

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