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Squint vs Scrutinise - What's the difference?

squint | scrutinise |

As verbs the difference between squint and scrutinise

is that squint is (lb) to look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression while scrutinise is to examine something with great care.

As a noun squint

is an expression in which the eyes are partly closed.

squint

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
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  • *:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
  • (lb) To look or glance sideways.
  • (lb) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
  • To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
  • (lb) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
  • The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
    • He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint .
  • (senseid)A quick or sideways glance.
  • A short look.
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
    • --And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.
    --Give us a squint at her, says I.
  • A hagioscope.
  • (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.

    • Related terms

    * cross-eyed

    Anagrams

    * quints

    scrutinise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * scrutinize

    Verb

    (scrutinis)
  • To examine something with great care.
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.

    • Anagrams

    * British English forms