He added the bill with a single saccade of his pulsing eyes.
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Saccade
//səˈkɑːd//
Synonyms for "saccade" (4 found)
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25 translations across 13 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 掃視 /扫视 noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
Czech
1 entries- sakáda noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
Dutch
1 entries- saccade noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
Finnish
4 entries- nykäisy noun (sudden jerk)
- nykäys noun (sudden jerk)
- saccadé noun (music: sounding of two violin strings together)
- sakkadi noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
French
3 entries- saccade noun (sudden jerk)
- saccade noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
- saccade noun (act of checking a horse with a single pull of the reins)
German
1 entries- Sakkade noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
Greek
1 entries- μεταπήδηση noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
Hungarian
1 entries- szakkád noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
Italian
1 entries- saccade noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
Japanese
1 entries- 突然のジャーク noun (sudden jerk)
Portuguese
3 entries- movimento sacádico noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
- puxão noun (act of checking a horse with a single pull of the reins)
- tranco noun (sudden jerk)
Russian
4 entries- бы́строе скачкообра́зное движе́ние глаз noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
- внеза́пный рыво́к noun (sudden jerk)
- сакка́да noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
- сакка́да noun (music: sounding of two violin strings together)
Spanish
2 entries- movimiento sacádico / ocular noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
- sacada noun (rapid jerky movement of the eye)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Then 130 milliseconds or thousandths of a second later, each made a "saccade" - an extremely fast eye movement - to roughly where the ball was likely to bounce.
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He paused, looking at me intently, his black-flecked eyes scanning my face in quick saccades.
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