eye strain
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- noun
- /aɪ streɪn/
:
fatiga ocular
- Many people experience eye strain after staring at their computer screens for too long.
- suffer from eye strain
- causes eye strain
There's also some claims that blue light can affect your eye strain.
- There's also some claims that blue light can affect your eye strain.
- There is some truth to blue light affecting your sleep cycle, potentially affecting eye strain and maybe retinal damage.
- We also don't want loads of people wearing head mounted displays for for a long time getting eye strain.
Examples
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The standard remedy for this kind of eye strain is to look at a distant object.
Academic text (1996) -
Don't you get eye strain reading law books?
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It's coming out soon, but I can tell you, at least for people with eye strain, this might be a really good option.
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I got eye strain, and the doctor said no movies.
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Iz is getting reading glasses to deal with eye strain, but her doctor is also going to have her do eye exercises.
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An e-reader just doesn't cause the same level of eye strain as other types of screens do.
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A high-quality lighting system will reduce eye strain and will keep your employees feeling refreshed rather than tired and headachy.
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However, getting up and away from your desk for just 5 minutes can alleviate eye strain and reduce fatigue in addition to making you feel better.
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Con: Digital textbooks create eye strain. Glare and the resulting eye strain is a common complaint among e-reader users.
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Back problems, eye strain, and repetitive strain injury (RSI) are but a few of the health hazards we face as web developers.
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Synonyms
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Tired or uncomfortable eyes after long close work such as reading and using screens
Eyes that feel tired and uncomfortable after long close work like reading or using a computer
How Strained
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'eye' (the organ of vision) + 'strain' (tension, fatigue), i.e. tension or fatigue affecting the eyes. This compound follows a common cross-linguistic pattern (equivalents exist in many languages) and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The phrase eye strain comes from the image of the eye under strain, like a muscle or rope being pulled too hard. When you look at small text or screens for a long time your eyes feel stretched and tired, so it means 'discomfort or tired eyes'.