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squint
English
Etymology
Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skw?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Verb
squint (third-person singular simple present squints, present participle squinting, simple past and past participle squinted)
- (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
- (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
- (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
- The Forum
- Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
- The Forum
- (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
- (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
Synonyms
(quick glance):
- skelly
Translations
Noun
squint (plural squints)
- An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
- The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
- He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.
- A quick or sideways glance.
- A short look.
- A hagioscope.
- (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
Derived terms
- squintless
- squinty
Translations
Adjective
squint
- Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
- (Scotland) askew, not level
Related terms
- cross-eyed
Anagrams
- quints
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squinter
English
Etymology
squint +? -er.
Noun
squinter (plural squinters)
- One who squints.
Translations
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