fisheye

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fisheye

  • /ˈfɪʃˌaɪ/

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From fish + eye.

noun fisheyes · fish eye · fish-eye

  1. countable, uncountable An unfriendly or suspicious glance.

    Similar: stink eye, see others there

  2. countable, uncountable An undesirable effect in paint, particularly automotive finishes, normally caused by oil or other contaminants on the painted surface.
  3. countable, uncountable An undesirable dull appearance in the table of a diamond that has been cut too shallow.
  4. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of fisheye lens 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.

verb fisheyes · fisheyeing · fisheying · fisheyed · fish eye

  1. transitive To glance unfriendlily or suspiciously at. She fisheyed our entrycards, looking to see if we’d remagnetized them to untoward purpose.

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@misc{fisheye_2026,
  title = {fisheye},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fisheye},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}