Eye

noun eyes · eyen · ee · eie · ey

1. An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”). Near-synonym: eyeball
2. The visual sense. The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
3. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour. Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
4. Attention, notice. That dress caught her eye.
5. The ability to notice what others might miss. He has an eye for talent.
6. usually A sexually or romantically suggestive one. She was giving him the eye at the bar.
7. usually An angry, annoyed, or malicious one. When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
8. usually An evil one. He sought the help of an alchemist regarding remedies to ward off the eye.
9. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of private eye.private eye Far more annoying were the letters from parents of missing daughters and the private detectives who had begun showing up at his door. Independently of each other, the Cigrand and Conner families had hired “eyes” to search for their missing daughters.
10. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
11. The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted. [H]e struck the Duffer a sharp blow on the back of the head with the eye of the axe, and left him stunned and senseless on the earth[.]
12. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
13. 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.
14. US A burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.
15. The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm. the eye of the storm
16. informal The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
17. The hilum of a seed or bean, or the hilum plus any rings of color that surround it; for example, the dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
18. The circle in the centre of a volute.
19. A central area in a portion of a carcass being butchered into cuts of meat, such as a certain muscle partly surrounded by fat (for example, a longissimus dorsi); a cut that includes a portion of it. loin eye
20. A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
21. A reproductive bud in a potato.
22. That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance. the very eye of that proverb
23. A shade of colour; a tinge. Red vvith an Eye of Blevv, makes a Purple; and by theſe ſimple Compoſitions again Compounded among themſelves, the Skilful Painter can produce vvhat kind of Colour he pleaſes, and a great many more than vve have yet Names for.
24. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
25. in plural The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
26. The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e. The “e” was a bit over-inked, with a blacked-out eye.
27. An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
28. plural normally Opinion, view. This victory will make us great in the eyes of the world.
29. Synonym of pit-eye.

Similar: eye, eyeball, glim, globe, lurk, mince pie, ogle, optic, orb, peeper

verb eyes · eyeing · eying · eyed · ee

1. transitive To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something). After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.
2. transitive To consider. Mr. Smith is eyeing a departmental reorganization plan.
3. intransitive, obsolete To appear; to look. My becomings kill me, when they do not eye well to you.
4. transitive To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes). Once the potatoes have been rumbled they require 'eyeing' with a turning knife or hand peeler.
5. transitive To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible. Eggs were collected from the Taylor Creek, Upper Truckee River, and Blackwood Creek traps and transported to this station to be eyed […]

noun eyes · i

1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i. It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."

Similar: eye, eyeball, glim, globe, lurk, mince pie, ogle, optic, orb, peeper

noun eyes

1. A brood. an eye of pheasants

Similar: eye, eyeball, glim, globe, lurk, mince pie, ogle, optic, orb, peeper

proper noun

1. A large village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF2202).
2. A small village in Eye, Moreton and Ashton parish, north Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4963).
3. A small town and civil parish with a town council in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1473).
4. A short river in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, which joins the River Dikler.
5. A river in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England, which becomes the River Wreake.
6. A former unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States.

proper noun

1. UK, colloquial the comedic magazine Private Eye.
2. UK The London Eye, a tourist attraction in London.