Crossword clues for squint
squint
- Look askance
- Hard look?
- Abnormal alignment of one or both eyes
- Look toward the sun
- Glance obliquely
- Member of large family in the way gets a funny look
- Way to include member of large family in cast
- Partly close one's eyes
- A way to hold one in five in a disapproving look
- React to bright light
- Narrow in the light
- What you might do when looking at the bright side?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squint \Squint\, n.
The act or habit of squinting.
(Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
(Arch.) Same as Hagioscope.
Squint \Squint\ (skw[i^]nt), a. [Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin, schuinsch, sloping, oblique, schuins slopingly. Cf. Askant, Askance, Asquint.]
Looking obliquely. Specifically: (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n.,
2. Fig.: Looking askance. ``Squint suspicion.''
--Milton.
Squint \Squint\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squinting.]
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To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
Some can squint when they will.
--Bacon. (Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed.
To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
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To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
--The Forum. To look with the eyes partly closed.
Squint \Squint\, v. t.
To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
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To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "looking different ways; looking obliquely," shortened form of asquint (adv.). Meaning "looking indirectly" is from 1610s.
1590s, from squint (adj.). Related: Squinted; squinting.
"non-coincidence of the optic axes," 1650s, from squint (adj.). Meaning "sidelong glance" is from 1660s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An expression in which the eyes are partly closed. 2 The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus. 3 (senseid en quick or sideways glance)A quick or sideways glance. 4 A short look. 5 A hagioscope. 6 (context radio transmission English) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenn
v
1 (lb en intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression. 2 (lb en intransitive) To look or glance sideways. 3 (lb en intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus. 4 (lb en intransitive figurative) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something. 5 (lb en intransitive Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely. 6 (lb en transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
WordNet
n. abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: strabismus]
v. partly close one's eyes; "The children squinted to frighten each other" [syn: squinch, cross one's eyes]
be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus
Wikipedia
Squint was the 1993 critically acclaimed return of Steve Taylor as a solo artist after his stint as the lead singer of Chagall Guevara. Highlights of the album include "The Lament of Desmond RG Underwood Frederick IV," "Easy Listening," "Jesus is for Losers," "The Finish Line," "Bannerman," and "Curses." It was the last studio album released by Steve Taylor as a solo artist. It peaked at position 17 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Christian Album Chart.
Squinting is the action of looking at something with partially closed eyes.
Squinting is most often practiced by people who suffer from refractive errors of the eye who either do not have or are not using their glasses. Squinting helps momentarily improve their eyesight by slightly changing the shape of the eye to make it more round, which helps light properly reach the fovea. Squinting also decreases the amount of light entering the eye, making it easier to focus on what the observer is looking at by removing rays of light which enter the eye at an angle and would need to otherwise be focused by the observer's faulty lens and cornea.
It is a common belief that squinting worsens eyesight. However, according to Robert MacLaren, a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Oxford, this is nothing more than an old wives' tale: the only damage that can be caused by squinting for long periods is a temporary headache due to prolonged contraction of the facial muscles.
Squinting is also a common involuntary reflex, especially among people with light colored eyes, during adaptation to a sudden change in lighting such as when one goes from a dark room to outdoors on a sunny day to avoid pain or discomfort of the eyes. The pupillary light reflex caused by adjustment to light takes around five minutes in people with healthy eyes, so squinting and pain after that could be a sign of photophobia. Squint may also refer to:
- Strabismus, (colloquially crossed eyes), a medical condition unrelated to narrowing the eyes
- Hagioscope, in architecture
- Squint (album)
- Squint (antenna)
- Squint Entertainment, a record label
In a phased array or slotted waveguide antenna, squint refers to the angle that the transmission is offset from the normal of the plane of the antenna.
This deflection can be caused by:
- Signal Frequency
- Design
Category:Antennas (radio)
Usage examples of "squint".
Instead, the ambulance had blue bins filled with plasticwrapped packages, and rows of bright lights that made her squint.
Sylvia squinted her eyes as if appraising his ability to keep a secret.
In several of the cases reported the squint and optic atrophy and the amblyopia have pointed to the pituitary body as the seat of a new growth of hypertrophy.
Otten, which could also be considered to be a fantasy anthology instead, I suppose, depending on how you squint at it.
Still, as the human bartender bustled through the busy streets, sun hood up, squinting, he was bothered by that droid who had accosted him.
Dazed, she staggered against the tree, squinting through blurry eyes at the monster only ten feet away.
Yakub brandished his goad and leered across at Penrod with a satanic squint.
Gerry Brell came into the light wearing a pink quilted robe with big white lapels, her blonde hair tousled, eyes squinting in the light.
It seemed strangely incongruous and almost comical to Brewster that such an imposing and fearsome-looking giant should be so deferential to a man who barely stood higher than his kneecaps, and yet Bloody Bob stood there, squinting down and shuffling his foot in the dirt and looking very much abashed.
He rose and walked around the brindled heifer, squatting down and squinting at her tail.
The characteristics of this form of idiocy are an enlarged thyroid gland constituting a goitre or bronchocele, a high-arched palate, dwarfed stature, squinting eyes, sallow complexion, small legs, conical head, large mouth, and indistinct speech.
DantleDantle Longleg, not Dantle Squint at the other end of the boroughhad a sow who snored just the same way while she slept under the wagon shelter beside the sheepfold.
Lisa squinted through the magnifier, but the letters were faint and almost illegible.
To our left is Microform Services, the dark grotto where professors and grad students huddle in clusters of microfilm machines, squinting at panels of light.
Wyman squinted at the screen again then let the monocle fall onto his vest.