eyeline

[ahy-lahyn]

noun

1. the area a person is looking at or can see.

   With a heads-up display, essential information, such as vehicle speed and navigation directions, is projected directly into the driver's eyeline.

   The director reminded people to clear the eyeline and get out of the view of actors trying to talk to each other during a scene.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eyeline¹

First recorded in 1955–60; eye ( def. ) + line ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

"I have seen it two or three times and if anyone could be in his eyeline it would be Jeremy Doku," Dublin added.

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But Ofsted's barrister Sir James Eadie told the court wellbeing issues were "absolutely in Ofsted's eyeline".

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I met him in the food court within eyeline of where it all happened.

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We didn’t even have a full script at this point, but I learned how to get the camera on his eyeline, and also how to direct him, to use those that point of view and subjectivity as a way to progress the story.”

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Fischer added, “It helps you with eyeline too, so you could see where he was looking.”

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