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Bull's-eye   /bʊlz-aɪ/   Listen
noun
Bull's-eye  n.  
1.
(Naut.) A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.
2.
A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.
3.
A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship's side, etc., to let in light.
4.
A circular or oval opening for air or light.
5.
A lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself.
6.
(Astron.) Aldebaran, a bright star in the eye of Taurus or the Bull.
7.
(Archery & Gun.) The center of a target.
8.
A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown.
9.
A small and thick old-fashioned watch. (Colloq.)
10.
Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal; as, to score a bull's eye.
Synonyms: bell ringer, mark.


Condenser  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, condenses.
2.
(Physic)
(a)
An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape.
(b)
An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate.
(c)
A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object.
3.
(Chem.) An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling.
4.
(Steam Engine) An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air.
Achromatic condenser (Optics), an achromatic lens used as a condenser.
Bull's-eye condenser, or Bull's-eye (Optics), a lens of short focal distance used for concentrating rays of light.
Injection condenser, a vessel in which steam is condensed by the direct contact of water.
Surface condenser, an apparatus for condensing steam, especially the exhaust of a steam engine, by bringing it into contact with metallic surface cooled by water or air.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Bull's-eye" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sea-board, and in the West great numbers of iron-clad floating batteries threaten to force a passage down the Mississippi, while monster armies are concentrating for the invasion of Tennessee and the Cotton States. Will Virginia escape the scourge? Not she; here is the bull's-eye of ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones
... this, and then down in this way." The major pursed up his warlike features into what he imagined to be an innocent and captivating expression. Then she looks across and sees me, and down go the lids of her eyes, like the shutting off of a bull's-eye lantern. Then she blushed and stole just one more glance at me round the corner of the curtain. She had two peeps, the divil ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... your arm," said Dolores, with scarcely more excitement than if she had made a bull's-eye on the Piping Rock range. "If I fire again, I am quite positive that ...
— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood
... how he piques himself on crowded cemeteries. But I will rather tell of the old grave-digger of Monkton, to whose unsuffering bedside the minister was summoned. He dwelt in a cottage built into the wall of the church-yard; and through a bull's-eye pane above his bed he could see, as he lay dying, the rank grasses and the upright and recumbent stones. Dr. Laurie was, I think, a Moderate: 'tis certain, at least, that he took a very Roman view of deathbed dispositions; for ...
— Memories and Portraits • Robert Louis Stevenson
... made one, between Miss Nugent and Jack, and despite the former's elbow began to feel almost like one of the family. Hostile feelings vanished, and with an amiable smile at the half-frantic Miss Nugent he placed a "bull's-eye" of great strength in his cheek, and leaning forward for a hymn-book left one on the ledge in front of jack. A double-distilled perfume at once assailed ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs


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