Sekirov Dictionary

squint

/skwɪnt/

verb 7
noun 6
adjective 2
forms 5

verb7

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To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
- The children squinted to frighten each other.
•
Look askance.
- Congress clearly is squinting at the prospect of increased funding for the program.
To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
To look or glance sideways.
•
(figurative) 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. — 1887
(Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.

noun6

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.
•
(informal) A quick or sideways glance; a short look; a peep.
- —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. — 1922
A hagioscope.
An opening, often arched, through an internal wall of a church, providing an oblique view of the altar.
The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.

adjective2

Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
(Scotland) askew, not level

forms

squinted · squinting · squinteth · squints · squintest

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