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单词 wall eye
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Definition of wall eye in English:

wall eye

noun
  • 1An eye with a streaked or opaque white iris.

    角膜白斑眼

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The blue eye is considered to be different than the wall eye, appearing a grey/blue colour.
    • Bo has what I know to be a wall eye, where the brown pigment of the eye doesn't stretch right to the edge, so you get a visible white area around the brown bit.
    1. 1.1 An eye squinting outwards.
      外斜视
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Another common form of strabismus (wall eyes), may only be noticeable when a child daydreams, looks at far-away objects, or is tiredor sick.
      • Rembrandt, the 17 th-century Dutch master known for his skill in using light to carry perspective, may have been wall-eyed, a U.S. researcher proposed on Wednesday.
      • For instance, wall eyes tends to occur intermittently and are most often corrected with surgery at 4 to 5 years old.
      • Having a wall eye sometimes leads a person to develop increased acuity in the other eye,’ Livingstone notes.
      • Otis had wall eyes when he was a baby too, but they aren't nearly as bad as they were.
      • The wall eye will eventually become amblyopic (functionally blind), especially if the eye coordination problem is not addressed at an early age.
      • If parents notice crossed or wall eyes persisting in a child four months of age, they should immediately take the child to an eye care professional for an examination.
      • Somehow in my awful, writhing state I notice that he is wall-eyed.
      • According to computer scientist Marc Levoy of Stanford University, Michelangelo's magnificent statue of ‘David’ in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy, is wall-eyed.
      • With wall eyes, the eyes appear to be protruding and enlarged; this is sometimes accompanied with one eye that appears to slightly be focused on a different direction than the other eye.
      • Obvious problems such as strabismus (crossed or wall eye) are usually caught by the pediatrician.
  • 2A North American pikeperch with large, opaque silvery eyes. It is a commercially valuable food fish and a popular sporting fish.

    大眼鰤鲈

    Stizostedion vitreum, family Percidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When I get to his age, I hope the walleye are biting, the salmon are running and my outboard is working.
    • In the bluff countryside of Sparta, Wis., the hills roll, the barns are red, and Holsteins graze in the shadow of 11-foot-high pumpkins and 15-foot-long walleyes.
    • In recent years the lake has yielded abundant harvests of walleye for sport fishermen.
    • The shortnose gar are predators that can occupy the role of a scavenger, but often competes for food with common gamefishes like the northern pike, walleyes, and bass.
    • Initial research focuses on rainbow trout and other salmonids, but later research could include species such as striped bass, walleye, and yellow perch.
    • European walleye are often referred to as ‘pike perch,’ sandre, or zander.
    • In some markets, fish like walleye remain popular only among certain clientele.
    • These lakes are habitats for a wide variety of fish including walleye, perch, musky, bass, bluegill and pumpkin seed.
    • I was catching six and seven pound walleye, and the darn scale would read only two or three pounds.
    • Now the river's been cleaned up, so that even walleye, pike, and game fish can live in it.
    • We were using smaller lures which Al prefers as these resemble the walleye on which the really big muskie feed.
    • Cool- and cold-water fish, such as walleye and trout, are being pushed farther northward into Canada, while warm-water species, such as smallmouth bass, are moving into northern U.S. waters.
    • Two other potentially dreary fish - walleye and wild striped sea bass - were bundled in thin origami wrappers of potato and pancetta, respectively.
    • In bays, rivers and lakes, predators like pike, walleye, white croaker, and largemouth bass accumulate the most mercury.
    • For their part, they see how good the walleye fishing in this enlarging lake has become and wonder how it could be viewed as a source of pollution north of the border.
    • Fish species most commonly consumed included bass, yellow perch, and walleye.
    • This is my kind of vacation spot: lots of walleyes and northerns, bald eagles and loons everywhere, the occasional black bear - and wireless internet service.
    • High ratings were also given to other desirable fish like the bluegill, the walleye, and the yellow perch.
    • Perch, walleye, bass, northern pike, and muskellunge are the fish that pose the most threat to black crappie young, but the large anal and dorsal fins allow the adults some protection against these predators.
    • Predators such as lake sturgeon, brook trout, northern pike, and walleye prey on such species as lake herring, lake whitefish, lake chub, pearl dace, and ninespine stickleback.

Derivatives

  • wall-eyed

  • adjective ˈwɔːlʌɪd
    • Her smokebox door hangs open, with headlight peering sideways through the fog with a wall-eyed Cyclopean stare.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Stalin's foreign admirers were wall-eyed intellectuals, tantalised by the violent engineering of Utopia as they stalked the corridors of the London School of Economics.
      • Then he set the probe down and looked up at her - the binoculars gave him a humorous wall-eyed look.
      • Not for him the flared-nostril aggression of a manager-class cybercrat, or the wall-eyed stare of the technologist.
      • A lousy musical performance would be problematic; but a botched dance move would be complete and total career suicide, as the expression of wall-eyed panic on her face clearly illustrated.

Origin

Early 16th century: back-formation from earlier wall-eyed, from Old Norse vagleygr; related to Icelandic vagl 'film over the eye'.

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