What's the difference between eyehole and peephole?
Eyehole
Definition:
(n.) A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simply look at the pictures and your brain instantly absorbs the meal through your eyeholes, like a sponge soaking up coloured water.
(2) You're buffeted by a range of feelings so intense, your face doesn't know how to deal with them, and keeps leaking fluid from somewhere round the eyeholes.
Peephole
Definition:
(n.) A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.
Example Sentences:
(1) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(2) David Attenborough: zoos should use peepholes to respect gorillas' privacy Read more Armed police were called to the central London attraction and visitors were evacuated when the alarm was raised following the ape’s bid for freedom on 13 October.
(3) Did he spy on patrons and watch their reactions through a peephole?
(4) Women were forced to wear the burqa, their vision restricted to a small, mesh-covered peephole, and were forbidden to go out to work or indeed to leave the house without being accompanied by a male relative.
(5) The light entering the peephole reaches a maximum when the far-point of the eye is co-incident with the retinoscope and drops when the far-point moves behind or in front of the retinoscope.
(6) In retinoscopy it is either the entrance pupil of the examiner or the peephole of the instrument that plays the role of the knife edge.
(7) He said he was able to get the videos of her by manipulating the hotel door peephole in such a way that he could pull the peephole out and use his mobile phone to shoot videos of her.
(8) Barrett testified on Monday , in videotaped deposition, that he removed the hotel door peepholes and altered them so he could pull them out easily to place his cellphone up to the empty hole and shoot videos.
(9) Yvette Seay said she talked to Thompson through her closed front door and she could see the bloodied woman through the peephole.
(10) This study determined the subjective refractive error in eight pigtailed monkeys by placing lenses of different powers in front of peepholes in a solid wall cage and recording the amount of time each subject used the holes.
(11) When an attorney asked him how he got the idea to shoot videos through the hotel room peepholes, he said: “I don’t know, just a stupid thought.” He was an executive with a Chicago-area insurance company when he shot the footage of Andrews in the Nashville hotel in September of 2008.
(12) A beam splitter, one-power telescope, and erecting mirror form a displaced aerial image of the retinoscope peephole for the observer.
(13) I feel so embarrassed and I am so ashamed.” Barrett pleaded guilty to stalking Andrews, altering hotel room peepholes and taking nude videos of her.
(14) The amount of light entering the peephole of the retinoscope was monitored while accommodation was varied.
(15) Those on it are kept under observation by officers using the peepholes in cell doors.
(16) Seay said she talked to Thompson through her closed front door and she could see the bloodied woman through the peephole.
(17) David Attenborough: zoos should use peepholes to respect gorillas' privacy Read more The foundation, which wants to see zoos phased out, argues that the £5.3m spent on London Zoo’s Gorilla Kingdom would have been better devoted to conservation in the wild.
(18) Jurors will have to determine whether the companies share some of the blame after stalker Michael David Barrett altered a peephole in her hotel room in September 2008 to shoot the secret video footage.
(19) March 1, 2016 Barrett was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after he admitted to stalking Andrews in three different cities, altering hotel room peepholes and shooting nude videos of her in Nashville and Columbus, Ohio.
(20) With identical retinoscopic reflexes observed through the actual peephole and its aerial image, the device can be used to teach basic retinoscopy techniques to new refractionists, or to demonstrate subtle reflexes to more experienced observers.