fisheye

See also: fish-eye and fish eye

English

Alternative forms

• fish eye, fish-eye

Etymology

From fish +‎ eye.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃˌaɪ/

Noun

fisheye (countable and uncountable, plural fisheyes)

1. An unfriendly or suspicious glance.
2. An undesirable effect in paint, particularly automotive finishes, normally caused by oil or other contaminants on the painted surface.
3. An undesirable dull appearance in the table of a diamond that has been cut too shallow.
4. Short for fisheye lens.
   • 2014 January 1, Kit Eaton, “Civilian Photography, Now Rising to New Level”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Related terms

• fish-eyed
• fishhead

Verb

fisheye (third-person singular simple present fisheyes, present participle fisheyeing, simple past and past participle fisheyed)

1. (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.