ocular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from the Latin oculāris (“of the eye”), from oculus (“eye”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ocular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ocular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: oculars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight
pos: adj
examples: The medication may have adverse ocular side effects.
It took some time after he lost his eye for him to receive his ocular prosthesis.
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage, that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.
gloss: Resembling the eye.
pos: adj
examples: ocular markings on the wings of a butterfly
gloss: Seen by, or seeing with, the eye; visual.
pos: adj
examples: Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,
Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof:
Or by the worth of man’s eternal soul,
Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
Than answer my waked wrath!
For as Thomas was an ocular Witness of Christ’s Death and Burial, so were the other Disciples of his Resurrection; having actually seen him after he was risen.
[…] I should have been apt to think, that the young gentlewomen and Mr. Lovelace were of longer acquaintance than yesterday. For he, by stealth, as it were, cast glances sometimes at them, which they returned; and, on my ocular notice, their eyes fell, as I may say, under my eye, as if they could not stand its examination.
Captain Lincoln proceeded to relate some of the strange fables and fantasies, which, as it was impossible to refute them by ocular demonstration, had grown to be articles of popular belief, in reference to this old picture.
Suddenly starting from a proposition, exactly and sharply defined, in terms of utmost simplicity and clearness, he rejected the forms of customary logic, and by a crystalline process of accretion, built up his ocular demonstrations in forms of gloomiest and ghastliest grandeur, […]
gloss: The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument, i.e., the optical element closest to the eye.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the scales forming the margin of a reptile's eye.
pos: noun
Derived words: antennocular
anteocular
biocular
circumocular
dextrocular
electroocular
endoocular
extraocular
infraocular
inocular
interocular
intraocular
monocular
multiocular
multocular
nasocular
nasoocular
nonocular
ocellocular
octonocular
ocularcentric
ocularcentrism
ocularist
ocularity
ocular lens
ocularly
ocular micrometer
ocular radiance
ocular spark
periocular
postocular
preocular
presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome
retroocular
sinistrocular
subocular
supraocular
transocular
triocular
uniocular
vestibuloocular
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: عَيْنِيّ
roman: ʕayniyy
lang: Armenian
word: ակնային
roman: aknayin
lang: Belarusian
word: во́чны
roman: vóčny
lang: Belarusian
word: вачавы́
roman: vačavý
lang: Bulgarian
word: о́чен
roman: óčen
lang: Catalan
word: ocular
lang: Czech
word: oční
lang: Esperanto
word: okula
lang: Finnish
word: silmä-
lang: French
word: oculaire
lang: Galician
word: ocular
lang: German
word: Augen-
lang: German
word: okular
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὀφθαλμικός
roman: ophthalmikós
lang: Hebrew
word: עֵינִי
lang: Italian
word: oculare
lang: Central Kurdish
word: چاوی
roman: çawî
lang: Latin
word: oculāris
lang: Macedonian
word: очен
roman: očen
lang: Polish
word: oczny
lang: Portuguese
word: ocular
lang: Romanian
word: ocular
lang: Russian
word: глазно́й
roman: glaznój
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: о̀чнӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: òčnī
lang: Slovak
word: očný
lang: Slovene
word: očesen
lang: Spanish
word: ocular
lang: Telugu
word: నేత్ర
roman: nētra
lang: Ukrainian
word: о́чний
roman: óčnyj