squint Signification, définition

Signification de squint en français

• 0 to push your eyelids partly shut so that you can see better -- plisser les yeux

  • He squinted into the sun. Il a plissé les yeux à cause du soleil.

• 1 to have the physical defect of having the eyes turning towards or away from each other or to cause the eyes to do this -- loucher

  • The child squints

  • You squint when you look down at your nose.

• 2 (with at, up at, through etc) to look with half-shut or narrowed eyes -- plonger son regard dans

  • He squinted through the telescope.

• 3 a squinting position of the eyes -- strabisme

  • an eye-operation to correct her squint.

• 4 a glance or look at something -- coup d’oeil

  • Let me have a squint at that photograph.

• 5 (placed etc) crookedly or not straight -- de travers

  • Your hat is squint.