eyeshot
nounEtymology From eye + shot, on the pattern of earshot.
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Idiomatic, Usually A range of vision, a distance in which something is visible.
- He likes his mother to sit off by the side, though--out of eyeshot of the door. "1991 July 26, Bonnie McGrath, “Ed Steiger Gives Great Party”, in Chicago Reader:
- "We were alarmed," says Aimee Sordelli, who lives within eyeshot of the school's chimney. "2004 July 23, Grant Pick, “Antenna Invasion”, in Chicago Reader:
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- 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.2007 May 27, William Yardley, “Victim of Climate Change, a Town Seeks a Lifeline”, in New York Times:
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Arts, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Photography Usually A range.
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Archaic, Usually A brief glance.
- The woman smothered his instant fear with an eyeshot of horror.1905, The Monthly Review, volume 19, page 101: