Definition of "eyedropper" [eyedropper]

• A dropper for administering liquid medicines, especially one for dispensing medications into the eye. (noun)

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• "And in fact, when we compared the frames in the ad to frames from the debate video using the "eyedropper" tool in Photoshop image-processing software, we found that the frames in the Clinton ad are uniformly darker."
• "The sorcerer forces an eyedropper full of his potion to a lice-ridden rat."
• "Then you can paste the image into photoshop and use the eyedropper to give you the HTML color code for the color you click on with the tool. thats how i take colors from the web that i need to use for projects. jslizzle jslizzle"