Ocular

Word OCULAR
Character 6
Hyphenation oc u lar
Pronunciations /ˈɒk.jə.lə/

Definitions and meanings of "Ocular"

What do we mean by ocular?

Of or relating to the eye. adjective

Resembling the eye in form or function. adjective

Of or relating to the sense of sight. adjective

Seen by the eye; visual. adjective

The eyepiece of an optical instrument. noun

Of or pertaining to the eye; ophthalmic; optic: as, ocular movements; the ocular (optic) nerve.

Depending on the eye; known by the eye; received by actual sight or seeing; optical; visual: as, ocular proof; ocular demonstration or evidence.

In entomology, pertaining to the compound eyes: distinguished from ocellar.

In optics, the eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope. See eyepiece. noun

Something which is conveyed to the mind through actual sight. noun

The eye. noun

In Echinoidea, an ocular plate. noun

Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen. adjective

Of or pertaining to the eye; optic. adjective

The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope. noun

Of, or relating to the eye, or the sense of sight adjective

Resembling the eye adjective

Seen by the eye; visual adjective

The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument noun

The eyepiece of a microscope or other optical instrument.

Any of the scales forming the margin of a reptile's eye.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Ocular

The word "ocular" in example sentences

She has already told the story, and to-day she was to give all her set what she calls ocular demonstration. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

Anway, my ocular is wars have been fomented by these same tried and true methods. ❋ Unknown (2005)

One of my early tasks in the process is an ocular, which is when I go to the venue and construct the shots in my mind. ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2005)

_ This may be called the ocular demonstration method, which consists in having a part of the company go through the exercise or drill, while the rest of the company observes what is being done. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Yes -- till there came floating along a couple of those knobs that look like big marbles -- only all the time they are what old Morley calls ocular prominences over the beastly leering eyes of one of those crocodiles on the lookout for grub. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

When the remains of colours are seen in the eye, they are termed ocular spectra; when remaining sounds are heard in the ear, they may be called auricular murmurs; but when the remaining motions, or ideas, of the sense of touch continue, as in this vertigo of a blindfolded person, they have acquired no name, but may be termed evanescent titillations, or tangible hallucinations. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

When any one has long and attentively looked at a bright object, as at the setting sun, on closing his eyes, or removing them, an image, which resembles in form the object he was attending to, continues some time to be visible; this appearance in the eye we shall call the ocular spectrum of that object. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

III. of this work, that the colours remaining in the eyes, which are termed ocular spectra, are ideas, or sensual motions, belonging to the sense of vision, which for too long a time continue their activity. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- Shielding the eye with silicon oil may safeguard the eyesight of patients who must undergo radiation therapy for an eye cancer known as ocular melanoma, new research suggests. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He suffers from an eye disease called ocular histoplasmosis and volunteers at the Waco VA's blind unit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Implantation of radioactive plaques has been relatively common in adult patients with a different eye cancer called ocular melanoma. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Patak suffers from a rare form of eye cancer called ocular melanoma and is self-employed without health insurance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We did not know it then, but it transpires that the geometry of the interior is so designed that, every equinox, and only on the equinox, if the day be not cloudy, then the sunlight will shine through the ocular at the top of the domed ceiling (and I thought an 'ocular' was the thing darts players stand on), onto a small grille placed at the junction between the roof and the wall. ❋ Gordon McCabe (2009)

Mr Tappertit smiled grimly at his comrade; and twisting out one more look — a kind of ocular screw — under the influence of which the blind man feigned to undergo great anguish and torture, bade him, in a softened tone, approach, and hold his peace. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Unless, of course, you have pink eye or some kind of ocular stigmatism and your glad eye crosses the thin boundary between sexy seduction, and sociopathic leering. ❋ RICHARD (2006)

Mr. Canton affixes some kind of ocular device onto the membrane over his left eye, peers into Caraco's ear. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Mr Tappertit smiled grimly at his comrade; and twisting out one more look -- a kind of ocular screw -- under the influence of which the blind man feigned to undergo great anguish and torture, bade him, in a softened tone, approach, and hold his peace. ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1892)

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