eye
An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
Noun
- An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
- Near-synonym: eyeball
- Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
- To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thine eyne? / Chriſtall is muddy. - c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher,...
Synonyms: eyeball
- The visual sense.
- The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
- The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
- Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
- Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.
- Attention, notice.
- That dress caught her eye.
- In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The...
- The ability to notice what others might miss.
- He has an eye for talent.
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises,...
Synonyms: perceptiveness
- A meaningful look or stare.
- She was giving him the eye at the bar.
- When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
- Ellipsis of 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...
- 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.
- [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[.] - 1856 October 18, The People’s Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator, Sydney,...
- 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, hob, or cooktop.
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der. Proto-Germanic *augô Proto-West Germanic *augā Old English ēage Middle English eye English eye From Middle English eye, yë, eyghe, from Old English ēage (“eye”), from Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”). Related to ogle. Cognates Cognate with Scots ee, eh (“eye”), North Frisian Oog, uug (“eye”), Saterland Frisian Oge, Ooge (“eye”), West Frisian each (“eye”), Alemannic German, Bavarian Aug (“eye”), Central Franconian Au, Auch, Ooch (“eye”), Dutch oog (“eye”), German Aug, Auge (“eye”), Low German Auge, Oog (“eye”), Luxembourgish A (“eye”), Vilamovian aojg, aug, oüg (“eye”), Yiddish אויג (oyg, “eye”), Danish øje (“eye”), Elfdalian oga (“eye”), Faroese eyga (“eye”), Icelandic auga (“eye”), Norwegian Bokmål øye (“eye”), Norwegian Nynorsk aua, aue, auga, auge...
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eye eyeball glim globe lurk mince pie ogle optic orb peeper silm
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Noun Entry 2
- 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." - 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
- IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo". - 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), pages 3–5
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eye eyeball glim globe lurk mince pie ogle optic orb peeper silm
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Noun Entry 3
- A brood.
- an eye of pheasants
Origin
Probably from rebracketing of a nye as an eye.
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eye eyeball glim globe lurk mince pie ogle optic orb peeper silm
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Verb
- To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
- After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.
- They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
- Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying. - 1859, Fraser’s Magazine, volume 60, page 671:
Synonyms: gaze
- To appear; to look.
- My becomings kill me, when they do not eye well to you. - c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]...
- To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
- Once the potatoes have been rumbled they require 'eyeing' with a turning knife or hand peeler. - 1996, Food Preparation and Cooking, page 418:
- My first assignment was eyeing old potatoes. The Siegler brothers would buy potatoes so old they looked like an octopus. My job was to make them look presentable and, of course, sellable. - 2012, Bob Vargovcik, Bayonne...
- 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 […] - 1927, Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Forty-Seventh...