eyeshot

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English

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Etymology

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From eye +‎ shot, on the pattern of earshot.

Noun

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eyeshot (usually uncountable, plural eyeshots)

  1. Range of vision, a distance in which something is visible.
    • 1991 July 26, Bonnie McGrath, “Ed Steiger Gives Great Party”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      He likes his mother to sit off by the side, though--out of eyeshot of the door. "
    • 2004 July 23, Grant Pick, “Antenna Invasion”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
      "We were alarmed," says Aimee Sordelli, who lives within eyeshot of the school's chimney. "
    • 2007 May 27, William Yardley, “Victim of Climate Change, a Town Seeks a Lifeline”, in New York Times[3]:
      Human waste, collected in “honey buckets” that many residents use for toilets, is often dumped within eyeshot in a village where no point is more than a five-minute walk from any other.
  2. (photography) Range.
  3. (archaic) A brief glance.
    • 1905, The Monthly Review, volume 19, page 101:
      The woman smothered his instant fear with an eyeshot of horror.

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