eye

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Noun

1. An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
   • Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
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.
   • Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.
4. Attention, notice.
   • That dress caught her eye.
5. The ability to notice what others might miss.
   • He has an eye for talent.
6. A meaningful look or stare. A sexually or romantically suggestive one.
   • She was giving him the eye at the bar.
   • When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
   • He sought the help of an alchemist regarding remedies to ward off the eye.
7. A sexually or romantically suggestive one.
   • She was giving him the eye at the bar.
8. An angry, annoyed, or malicious one.
   • When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
   • He sought the help of an alchemist regarding remedies to ward off the eye.
9. An evil one.
   • He sought the help of an alchemist regarding remedies to ward off the eye.
10. Ellipsis of private eye.
11. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
12. The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
13. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
14. 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.
15. A burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.
16. A central and focal portion of any of several things. The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
    • the eye of the storm
    • loin eye
17. The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
    • the eye of the storm
18. The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
19. 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.
20. The circle in the centre of a volute.
21. 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
22. A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
23. A reproductive bud in a potato.
24. That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.
25. A shade of colour; a tinge.
26. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
27. The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
28. The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.
29. An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
30. Opinion, view.
    • This victory will make us great in the eyes of the world.
31. Synonym of pit-eye.

Verb

1. 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.
2. To consider.
   • Mr. Smith is eyeing a departmental reorganization plan.
3. To appear; to look.
4. To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
5. To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.

Noun

1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i.

Noun

1. A brood.
   • an eye of pheasants

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