eye

Plural: eyen, eyes, eyne

Noun

• The organ of sight in humans and animals.
• the organ of sight
• good discernment (either visually or as if visually)
  • "she has an eye for fresh talent"
  • "he has an artist's eye"
• attention to what is seen
  • "he tried to catch her eye"
• an area that is approximately central within some larger region
  • "they were in the eye of the storm"
• a small hole or loop (as in a needle)
  • "the thread wouldn't go through the eye"
• An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
• The visual sense.
• The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
• Attention, notice.
• The ability to notice what others might miss.
• A meaningful look or stare.
• Ellipsis of private eye.
• A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
• The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
• A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
• A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a hook, pin, rope, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.
• A burner on a kitchen stove.
• The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
• A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
• The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
• A reproductive bud in a potato.
• The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
• That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.
• A shade of colour; a tinge.
• One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
• The circle in the centre of a volute.
• The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
• The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.
• An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
• Opinion, view.
• Synonym of pit-eye.
• The name of the Latin-script letter I/i.
• A brood.

Verb

Verb Forms: eyed, eying, eyeing, eyes

• To look at or watch intently.
• look at
• To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
• To appear; to look.
• To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
• To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.

Examples

• After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.
• an eye of pheasants
• Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
• Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
• He has an eye for talent.
• He kept a keen eye on the board, searching for potential parallel plays.
• Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.
• She was giving him the eye at the bar.
• She would eye her opponent’s rack, trying to guess what letters they held.
• That dress caught her eye.
• The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
• They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
• This victory will make us great in the eyes of the world.
• When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.

Synonyms

center, centre, eyeball, heart, middle, oculus, optic, eye, gaze, glim, globe, lurk, mince pie, ogle, orb, peeper, perceptiveness, pit-eye, silm

Related Words

eyne, neen (“eyes”), tapetum lucidum, EYEABLE

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