different between eyeball vs exophthalmic

English

Alternative forms

• eye-ball (obsolete)

Etymology

From eye +? ball. Compare Middle English balle off the eye, balle of þe ey?e (“eyeball”, literally “ball of the eye”).

Pronunciation

Noun

eyeball (plural eyeballs)

1. The ball of the eye.
   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I Scene 2

     Go, make thyself like a nymph o' th' sea.

     Be subject to no sight but thine and mine, invisible

     To every eyeball else. Go, take this shape,

     And hither come in't; go! Hence, with diligence!

2. A person's focus of attention.
3. (marketing, in the plural) A readership or viewership.

   We need compelling content for the new Web site so we can attract more eyeballs.

4. (CB radio, slang) A face-to-face meeting.

5. (Caribbean) A favourite or pet; the apple of someone's eye.

Synonyms

• eye-apple

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

eyeball (third-person singular simple present eyeballs, present participle eyeballing, simple past and past participle eyeballed)

1. To gauge, estimate or judge by eye, rather than measuring precisely; to look or glance at.

2. To scrutinize
3. To stare at intently

   Are you eyeballing my girl?

4. To roll one's eyes.

Derived terms

• eyeballer

Translations

See also

• bums in seats
• click-through

English

Adjective

exophthalmic

1. Of, or relating to exophthalmos.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 147]:

     She was given hormone injections and pills and she grew slender. Judging from the exophthalmic bulge, it must've been thyroxine that they put her on.

2. Having prominent eyeballs.

Derived terms

• exophthalmic goiter
• exophthalmic ophthalmoplegia