Squint

Verb

 * 1)  To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression
 * The children squinted to frighten each other.
 * 1)  To look or glance sideways
 * 2)  To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
 * 3)  To be not quite straight, off-centred.  Most famous is the acclaimed "squinty" bridge in Glasgow.  This term may be peculiarly Scottish.

Noun

 * 1) An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
 * 2) The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, like in strabismus.
 * He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.
 * 1) A quick or sideways glance.
 * 2) A short look.
 * 3) * Episode 12, The Cyclops
 * --And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.
 * --Give us a squint at her, says I.
 * 1) A hagioscope.
 * 2)  The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.

Thesaurus
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

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 眯 (traditional also 瞇), 眯縫, 眯缝, 乜斜
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ogen dichtknijpen
 * Finnish: siristää, siristellä


 * French: plisser les yeux
 * German:
 * Japanese: 目を細めて見る
 * Romanian: se chiorî
 * Russian: щуриться, прищуриться ; жмуриться


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 斜視, 斜视
 * Finnish: vilkaista (sivulle), vilkuilla
 * French: loucher
 * German:


 * Portuguese: olhar de soslaio
 * Russian: смотреть искоса, смотреть украдкой , коситься , покоситься


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: scheelkijken
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: bandzsít,
 * Russian: косить
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,

Noun

 * Finnish: silmien siristys / siristely
 * French: plissement d'yeux


 * German: Schielen
 * Russian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 斜視, 斜视
 * Dutch: scheelkijken
 * Finnish:
 * French: strabisme


 * German: Strabismus, Schielen
 * Hungarian: bandzsítás,
 * Japanese: 斜視, 藪睨み
 * Russian: косоглазие
 * Spanish: estrabismo


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese: 一瞥


 * Russian: косой взгляд

Related terms

 * cross-eyed

Anagrams

 * quints