Squint
verb
To look at something with the eyes partly closed.
He had to squint to read the small print.
Often appears as...
- squint at the sun
- squint through a telescope
noun
A condition of the eyes, where they look in different directions.
She has a slight squint in her left eye.
Often appears as...
- have a squint
- develop a squint
verb
To look with eyes turned toward one side.
He squinted his eyes to avoid the bright light.
Often appears as...
- squint at the light
- squint to see
noun
A quick or hidden look.
He took a squint out the window to see if the coast was clear.
Often appears as...
- take a squint
- quick squint
Usage tips
Informal
verb
To look at something with the eyes partly closed.
He had to squint to read the small print.
Often appears as...
- squint at the sun
- squint through a telescope
noun
A condition of the eyes, where they look in different directions.
She has a slight squint in her left eye.
Often appears as...
- have a squint
- develop a squint
verb
To look with eyes turned toward one side.
He squinted his eyes to avoid the bright light.
Often appears as...
- squint at the light
- squint to see
noun
A quick or hidden look.
He took a squint out the window to see if the coast was clear.
Often appears as...
- take a squint
- quick squint
Usage tips
Informal
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Narrowed Vision
Squinting involves partly closing the eyes, which limits your field of vision.
You may need to squint when facing bright lights.
Pro Tip 2/3Focus for Clarity
Squinting can help see more clearly by shaping the eye to focus light better.
Squint for a clearer view of that distant sign.
Pro Tip 3/3Facial Response
Squinting is often an involuntary reaction to protect your eyes.
I automatically squinted when I walked outdoors.
Pro Tip 1/3Narrowed Vision
Squinting involves partly closing the eyes, which limits your field of vision.
You may need to squint when facing bright lights.
Pro Tip 2/3Focus for Clarity
Squinting can help see more clearly by shaping the eye to focus light better.
Squint for a clearer view of that distant sign.
Pro Tip 3/3Facial Response
Squinting is often an involuntary reaction to protect your eyes.
I automatically squinted when I walked outdoors.
Pro Tip 1/3Narrowed Vision
Squinting involves partly closing the eyes, which limits your field of vision.
You may need to squint when facing bright lights.
Pro Tip 2/3Focus for Clarity
Squinting can help see more clearly by shaping the eye to focus light better.
Squint for a clearer view of that distant sign.
Pro Tip 3/3Facial Response
Squinting is often an involuntary reaction to protect your eyes.
I automatically squinted when I walked outdoors.
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The Sea Turtles of...
pollution is a huge issue for us here in the Mediterranean. Sea turtles can get entangled in it, they can ingest it as well. The females, as they come up to nest on the beach, the plastics can get in the way as well. So there's a lot of different places that they are encountering these plastic. Another threat is hooks and sea turtles can either ingest these hooks so we can see an x-ray of a turtle here where the hook is actually in the intestinal tract of the turtle. It's made it, it's swallowed it, and it's made it all the way to the intestines. The hooks can also get entangled on their squint, their skin and their flippers. They can get entangled or entrapped in nets, so sea turtles can hold their breath for up to four hours in the water but when they're entrapped in a net, that's very, very difficult while they're fighting to hold their breath for that long. we were talking a bit before, now you were saying that the turtles, they're not leaving the harbour, is that right?
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Watch the Total Solar...
most dangerous because you won't have that natural inkling to squint and you should never look at the Sun this is way too bright it will damage your eyes so even if it's ninety percent covered exactly even if it's mostly covered if or something covered you cannot look at it without eye protection you want these iso certified glasses there are also
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Erin Pettit: Glaciers on...
I've also worked with artists out on the ice and that's been really fun because they've taught me things like you have to turn the world upside down to really see it for what it is they've also taught me that if you squint you can kind of get rid of all the detail and you can see the big picture a lot more easily so it's been
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Why people believe weird...
If you squint, you can still see the face. And when you're squinting, you're turning that from fine-grain to coarse-grain, so you're reducing the quality of your data. And if I didn't tell you what to look for, you'd still see the face, because we're programmed by evolution to see faces. Faces are important for us socially.
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The hilarious art of...
the printer put a spot gloss on the ink and it really looked like it was running. Not long after it came out, Augusten was waylaid in an airport and he was hiding out in the bookstore spying on who was buying his books. And this woman came up to it, and she squinted, and she took it to the register,
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How misused modifiers...
The modifying phrase in this sentence seems unrelated to anything else, and so we're clueless about who the chocolate-loving criminal could possibly be. Giving the modifier something to modify will solve the problem. Then there's another group called the squinting modifiers
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Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
and our prayer lines as you can see heads are starting to go into that typical lion fashion where they start to droop a little bit so they kind of look through squinted glances and the ears get sort of tucked in a certain way and they look very unhappy with life so
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The dawn of the age of...
will experience the continued exploration of space with technology that understands this world. We already live in a world where real-time universal translators exist. And I can squint, and I can already see holographic telepresence in our near future.
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Caroline Casey: Looking...
And every woman, you are so beautiful. And when I want to look beautiful, I step three feet away from the mirror, and I don't have to see these lines etched in my face from all the squinting I've done all my life from all the dark lights.
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How to talk about weight...
other things so telling someone to just lose weight is essentially as nebulous as telling someone who's depressed to just cheer up it offers no therapeutic leverage instead think about what I call the ABG's should be ABCs if you squint a
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The Sea Turtles of...
pollution is a huge issue for us here in the Mediterranean. Sea turtles can get entangled in it, they can ingest it as well. The females, as they come up to nest on the beach, the plastics can get in the way as well. So there's a lot of different places that they are encountering these plastic. Another threat is hooks and sea turtles can either ingest these hooks so we can see an x-ray of a turtle here where the hook is actually in the intestinal tract of the turtle. It's made it, it's swallowed it, and it's made it all the way to the intestines. The hooks can also get entangled on their squint, their skin and their flippers. They can get entangled or entrapped in nets, so sea turtles can hold their breath for up to four hours in the water but when they're entrapped in a net, that's very, very difficult while they're fighting to hold their breath for that long. we were talking a bit before, now you were saying that the turtles, they're not leaving the harbour, is that right?
Video examples
Watch the Total Solar...
most dangerous because you won't have that natural inkling to squint and you should never look at the Sun this is way too bright it will damage your eyes so even if it's ninety percent covered exactly even if it's mostly covered if or something covered you cannot look at it without eye protection you want these iso certified glasses there are also
Video examples
Erin Pettit: Glaciers on...
I've also worked with artists out on the ice and that's been really fun because they've taught me things like you have to turn the world upside down to really see it for what it is they've also taught me that if you squint you can kind of get rid of all the detail and you can see the big picture a lot more easily so it's been
Video examples
Why people believe weird...
If you squint, you can still see the face. And when you're squinting, you're turning that from fine-grain to coarse-grain, so you're reducing the quality of your data. And if I didn't tell you what to look for, you'd still see the face, because we're programmed by evolution to see faces. Faces are important for us socially.
Video examples
The hilarious art of...
the printer put a spot gloss on the ink and it really looked like it was running. Not long after it came out, Augusten was waylaid in an airport and he was hiding out in the bookstore spying on who was buying his books. And this woman came up to it, and she squinted, and she took it to the register,
Video examples
How misused modifiers...
The modifying phrase in this sentence seems unrelated to anything else, and so we're clueless about who the chocolate-loving criminal could possibly be. Giving the modifier something to modify will solve the problem. Then there's another group called the squinting modifiers
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
and our prayer lines as you can see heads are starting to go into that typical lion fashion where they start to droop a little bit so they kind of look through squinted glances and the ears get sort of tucked in a certain way and they look very unhappy with life so
Video examples
The dawn of the age of...
will experience the continued exploration of space with technology that understands this world. We already live in a world where real-time universal translators exist. And I can squint, and I can already see holographic telepresence in our near future.
Video examples
Caroline Casey: Looking...
And every woman, you are so beautiful. And when I want to look beautiful, I step three feet away from the mirror, and I don't have to see these lines etched in my face from all the squinting I've done all my life from all the dark lights.
Video examples
How to talk about weight...
other things so telling someone to just lose weight is essentially as nebulous as telling someone who's depressed to just cheer up it offers no therapeutic leverage instead think about what I call the ABG's should be ABCs if you squint a
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Andrea Pirlo
Italian Athlete
If I look in the mirror when I get up or before going to bed at night, I see a man of average ugliness with stubble, an unruly mane of hair, a squint nose, slightly protruding ears, and bags under my eyes. But I also see a man who's completely happy with the figure staring back at him.
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James Wolcott
American Critic
If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers.
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Jonathan Dee
American Novelist
If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.
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Glennon Doyle Melton
American Author
We are - each and every one of us - unlearning misogyny. It's going to take some time. But be aware and active of your prejudices. Notice when they kick in and resist. Fight to stay soft and open. Step back and squint hard.
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Tim Commerford
American Musician
I've played in front of a hundred thousand people and it's easy for me to squint my eyes and blur my vision and then all the people just turn into a giant piece of pizza or something. Everyone becomes one, you know.
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Wendy Williams
American Entertainer
People have accused me of bleaching my skin, of getting a nose job. They squint at my mom, like, 'I didn't know Wendy was Asian.' I am black all day, honey pie. I am black and very proud.
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Jo Beverley
British Writer
I don't do guilt, but if I were to squint in that direction, it's probably enjoying simple computer games like Zuma. But I regard such things as part of my hand-eye coordination workout.
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Helen Baxendale
English Actress
People know me but can't quite place me - they squint at me like I might be their old school teacher or a woman they've seen down the local pub.
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Travis Beacham
American Writer
If you squint at 'Deadwood,' you can see 'Game of Thrones' coming. That's the show that first got me thinking 'Carnival Row' could be a series.
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Cat Deeley
English Celebrity
I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.
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Andrea Pirlo
Italian Athlete
If I look in the mirror when I get up or before going to bed at night, I see a man of average ugliness with stubble, an unruly mane of hair, a squint nose, slightly protruding ears, and bags under my eyes. But I also see a man who's completely happy with the figure staring back at him.
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James Wolcott
American Critic
If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers.
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Jonathan Dee
American Novelist
If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.
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Glennon Doyle Melton
American Author
We are - each and every one of us - unlearning misogyny. It's going to take some time. But be aware and active of your prejudices. Notice when they kick in and resist. Fight to stay soft and open. Step back and squint hard.
Quote examples
Tim Commerford
American Musician
I've played in front of a hundred thousand people and it's easy for me to squint my eyes and blur my vision and then all the people just turn into a giant piece of pizza or something. Everyone becomes one, you know.
Quote examples
Wendy Williams
American Entertainer
People have accused me of bleaching my skin, of getting a nose job. They squint at my mom, like, 'I didn't know Wendy was Asian.' I am black all day, honey pie. I am black and very proud.
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Jo Beverley
British Writer
I don't do guilt, but if I were to squint in that direction, it's probably enjoying simple computer games like Zuma. But I regard such things as part of my hand-eye coordination workout.
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Helen Baxendale
English Actress
People know me but can't quite place me - they squint at me like I might be their old school teacher or a woman they've seen down the local pub.
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Travis Beacham
American Writer
If you squint at 'Deadwood,' you can see 'Game of Thrones' coming. That's the show that first got me thinking 'Carnival Row' could be a series.
Quote examples
Cat Deeley
English Celebrity
I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.
Example 1 of 10
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