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squint 音標拼音: [skw'ɪnt] n. 斜視眼,斜著
a. 斜視的
vt. 使變斜視眼
vi. 斜視,傾向,越軌 斜視眼,斜著斜視的使變斜視眼斜視,傾向,越軌 squint adj 1: ( used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; " her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; " sidelong glances" [ synonym: { askance}, { askant}, { asquint}, { squint}, { squint- eyed}, { squinty}, { sidelong}] n 1: abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [ synonym: { strabismus}, { squint}] 2: the act of squinting; looking with the eyes partly closed v 1: cross one' s eyes as if in strabismus; " The children squinted so as to scare each other" [ synonym: { squint}, { squinch}] 2: be cross- eyed; have a squint or strabismus 3: partly close one' s eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light; " The driver squinted as the sun hit his windshield" Squint \ Squint\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Squinted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Squinting}.] 1. To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. [ 1913 Webster] Some can squint when they will. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross- eyed. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely. [ 1913 Webster] 4. 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] 5. To look with the eyes partly closed. [ PJC]
Squint \ Squint\ ( skw[ i^] nt), a. [ Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin, schuinsch, sloping, oblique, schuins slopingly. Cf. { Askant}, { Askance}, { Asquint}.] 1. Looking obliquely. Specifically: ( Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See { Squint}, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Fig.: Looking askance. " Squint suspicion." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
Squint \ Squint\, v. t. 1. To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes. [ 1913 Webster] He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Squint \ Squint\, n. 1. The act or habit of squinting. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Med.) A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Arch.) Same as { Hagioscope}. [ 1913 Webster] 39 Moby Thesaurus words for " squint": aberration, cast, circuitousness, cock the eye, convergent strabismus, cross- eye, cross- eyedness, crosswiseness, declination, deflection, deflexure, deviance, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, divagation, divergence, esotropia, excursion, exotropia, goggle, heterotropia, indirection, indirectness, look askance, look asquint, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, skew, skewness, squinch, squint the eye, strabismus, transverseness, upward strabismus, vagary, walleye
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