fisheye
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fisheye (countable and uncountable, plural fisheyes)
- An unfriendly or suspicious glance.
- An undesirable effect in paint, particularly automotive finishes, normally caused by oil or other contaminants on the painted surface.
- An undesirable dull appearance in the table of a diamond that has been cut too shallow.
- Short for fisheye lens.
- 2014 January 1, Kit Eaton, “Civilian Photography, Now Rising to New Level”, in The New York Times:
- The imaging unit is not without flaws, and it’s not as powerful as a professional hand-held S.L.R. camera. For example, there’s a noticeable fish-eye distortion in the image that comes from the unit’s really wide vision angle, and you can’t zoom the field of view.
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Verb
fisheye (third-person singular simple present fisheyes, present participle fisheyeing, simple past and past participle fisheyed)
- (transitive) To glance unfriendlily or suspiciously at.
- 1988, Jack Womack, Terraplane, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 27:
- She fisheyed our entrycards, looking to see if we’d remagnetized them to untoward purpose.
- 1992, James Ellroy, White Jazz, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Gold Medal, →ISBN, page 164:
- The director fisheyed me—I strolled to the trailer, nonchalant.
- 1996, Pat Lowther, Time Capsule: New and Selected Poems, Polestar Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 200:
- My father with his Christmas-red vest and braggart’s moustache is boycotting the party. It must be Sunday or Saturday morning and he’s cold and sleepy fisheyeing his long-haired sons.