Pronunciations (8)
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/ˈaɪ̯/
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[ˈaɪ̯]
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/ˈɑɪ̯/
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[ˈɑ̟ɪ̯]
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/ˈɒɪ̯/
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[ˈɒ̈ɪ̯]
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/ˈaː/
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[ˈaː]
Noun
An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
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Please close your eyes.
Near-synonym: eyeball
Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
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To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thine eyne? / Chriſtall is muddy.
Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]
Now with a bitter smile, whose light did shine / Like a fiend’s hope upon his lips and eyne, / He said, and the persuasion of that sneer / Rallied his trembling comrades— […]
It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
[H]is eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages.
The visual sense.
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The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
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Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.
Attention, notice.
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That dress caught her eye.
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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 Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.
The ability to notice what others might miss.
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He has an eye for talent.
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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, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
A meaningful look or stare. A sexually or romantically suggestive one.
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She was giving him the eye at the bar.
A meaningful look or stare. An angry, annoyed, or malicious one.
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When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
A meaningful look or stare. An angry, annoyed, or malicious one. An evil one.
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He sought the help of an alchemist regarding remedies to ward off the 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.
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[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[.]
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.
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A central and focal portion of any of several things. The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
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the eye of the storm
the eye of the hurricane
A central and focal portion of any of several things. The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
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A central and focal portion of any of several things. 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.
A central and focal portion of any of several things. The circle in the centre of a volute.
A central and focal portion of any of several things. 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.
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loin eye
rib eye
A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
A reproductive bud in a potato.
That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.
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the very eye of that proverb
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
A shade of colour; a tinge.
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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.
One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
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The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.
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The “e” was a bit over-inked, with a blacked-out eye.
An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
Opinion, view.
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This victory will make us great in the eyes of the world.
Synonym of pit-eye.
Verb
To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
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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.
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Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying.
To consider.
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Mr. Smith is eyeing a departmental reorganization plan.
Developers eyeing Merrillville as a potential spot for a data center will now have to wait a little longer to approach the Town Council.
To appear; to look.
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- Obsolete
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My becomings kill me, when they do not eye well to you.
To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
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Once the potatoes have been rumbled they require 'eyeing' with a turning knife or hand peeler.
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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.
To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.
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Eggs were collected from the Taylor Creek, Upper Truckee River, and Blackwood Creek traps and transported to this station to be eyed […]
Noun
The name of the Latin script letter I/i.
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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."
IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".
Noun
A brood.
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an eye of pheasants
Noun
the organ of sight
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good discernment (either visually or as if visually)
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she has an eye for fresh talent
he has an artist's eye
attention to what is seen
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he tried to catch her eye
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
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it is in the center of town
they ran forward into the heart of the struggle
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they were in the eye of the storm
a small hole or loop (as in a needle)
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the thread wouldn't go through the eye
Verb
look at
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