What's the difference between sideways and squint?

Sideways


Definition:

  • (adv.) Toward the side; sidewise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
  • (2) He just look sideways and for some reason it’s funny.” But Clement himself names Rhys Darby, aka the Conchords’ manager, Murray, who plays a werewolf in Shadows, as the funniest man he has ever worked with – even if he does appear in “too many ads”.
  • (3) In a sideways reference to his own description of investment banks as casinos, King acknowledged it is almost impossible to measure risk and for regulators to keep up.
  • (4) He exited the sand trap sideways, was ultimately left 8ft for par but missed to the left.
  • (5) He would have been knocking it all sideways.” Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy, 1860-1960 is at the National Portrait Gallery , London, 16 October – 11 January.
  • (6) I remember the way I slid sideways through rows of desks, my arms crossed over my chest.
  • (7) Sometimes, it is because a senior minister will not accept the sideways shuffle that is envisaged for them, and sometimes it is simply because the prime minister loses his nerve.
  • (8) At most companies offering 6%, the dividend is under threat or going sideways.
  • (9) But when Davie went to BBC Worldwide, via a few months as acting director general, the job went to Helen Boaden , moved sideways out of BBC News last year in the wake of the Savile scandal.
  • (10) The role of retinal Müller cells in spatial buffering is considered quantitatively: both buffering to the tissue surface and buffering sideways through cell-to-cell connections.
  • (11) ), aggressive episodes (offensive sideways posture and attack bite) were significantly suppressed in a dose-dependent manner.
  • (12) In Adelaide we 'wet-set' our instruments, in Darwin we had small pre-packed trays which were set on trolleys sideways, and in Perth we had pre-sterilised boxes of instruments which we laid out on trolleys ourselves.
  • (13) Also, proper douching that directs liquid sideways, not toward the cervix, should further reduce risk, It is underscored that contraceptive efficacy is not an effectiveness rate, but a failure rate.
  • (14) It was easy to detect their frustration during the first half and there was no shortage of chuntering whenever the ball went sideways or back.
  • (15) I congratulated him on the upsurge in his fortunes, such as his sideways move from squeezing, baking and daubing his filthy and infantile clay urns into broadcasting on the prestigious Channel 4 network.
  • (16) In it two grown-up cherubs seem to be flying sideways.
  • (17) Johnson said the need to continue the austerity programme into the next parliament had been caused by George Osborne's decision to allow borrowing to rise while the economy has moved sideways over the past two years, rather than tighten policy further.
  • (18) The football administrator Brian Marwood, previously in charge of recruitment, has been moved sideways to become the managing director of the club's academy in a move overseen by City's new chief executive, Ferran Soriano, who worked with Begiristain at the Camp Nou.
  • (19) The sideways looks in predominantly white areas suggesting your presence there is beyond the norm.
  • (20) Direct sagittal CT was performed by placing the entire infant sideways and supine within the gantry after metrizamide was injected.

Squint


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Squint was the most common diagnosis with the prevalence being 18.4 per thousand for the children in social classes I to III and 15.9 for the total series.
  • (2) Indeed this procedure is the only one which can act in a fitted manner on muscular spasms responsible of more than 60% of convergent squints.
  • (3) In this group refractive error, nasolacrimal duct block, and primary squint were most common, while in the non-heritable group various types of conjunctivitis, trauma, foreign bodies, blepharitis and nutritional diseases were most prevalent.
  • (4) The presence of +2.00 or more D of spherical hypermetropia in both eyes, or +1.00 or more D sphere or cylinder of anisometropia was significantly associated (P=0.0779%) with that child being identified 2+ years later as having either squint or amblyopia or both.
  • (5) The present squint angle was the only major parameter relevant for the preservation of PS and MS.
  • (6) Both the AO and the Siamese cats exhibited a convergent squint.
  • (7) All the cases of squint and amblyopia referred to both hospital and school clinics in one district during one calendar year have been reviewed in order to clarify when, where, and how these cases first present to the ophthalmologist.
  • (8) Clinical signs in mice were squinting and distended testes in males, and in rats, rapid respiration (all doses), squinting, and hunching.
  • (9) The most frequent indications are: Increased objective squint angle during near fixation, incomitant binocular movements in the horizontal plane, unstabile objective angles, nystagmus compensation (block-) syndrome, variation of Kestenbaum's nystagmusoperation.
  • (10) The most important squints to diagnose are the concomitant squints of childhood as they can lead to amblyopia, which is irreversible after the age of ten years.
  • (11) In all patients was found a very marked impairment of visual acuity or even blindness of the affected eye with most frequently squint and nystagmus.
  • (12) On the basis of our investigation we could not prove the process of emmetropisation during the growth of the eyes of squinting children in this age group.
  • (13) Anterior segment circulation was assessed in 35 adults one day after squint surgery by clinical observation and low-dose fluorescein iris angiography.
  • (14) There was no influence upon the angle of squint and the correspondence.
  • (15) In divergent squint, the fovea competes with the much weaker nasal hemifield.
  • (16) The authors study 202 strabismus cases and evaluate the strabismic epidemiology of Tunisia: 58% of squint children have amblyopia.
  • (17) The shortened test shows the reduction in contrast sensitivity as well as the original LDT in squint amblyopia multiple sclerosis, optic neuritis and cerebral tumours.
  • (18) Besides the odontogenic keratocysts, the Case 1 patient had basal cell nevus, prominent frontal process, and ocular hypertelorism; the Case 2 patient had prominent frontal process; the Case 3 patient had prominent frontal process, ocular hypertelorism, and squint.
  • (19) Leukokoria and squint were the most frequent first signs of the tumor.
  • (20) The results of a prospective study of 66 cases of squint among black Zaïrian people are presented.