eye

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English[edit]

A human eye
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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English, from Old English ēaġe (“eye”), from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”) (compare Scots ee, West Frisian each, Dutch oog, German Auge, Swedish öga), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”) (compare Latin oculus, Lithuanian akìs, Old Church Slavonic око (oko), Albanian sy, Ancient Greek ὤψ (ōps, “eye, face”), Armenian ակն (akn), Avestan  (aši, “eyes”), Sanskrit अक्षि (ákṣi), Tocharian A ak). Related to ogle.

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Noun[edit]

eye (plural eyes or (obsolete) eyen)

  1. An organ that is sensitive to light, which it converts to electrical signals passed to the brain, by which means animals see.
  2. The visual sense.
    The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
  3. Attention, notice.
    That dress caught her eye.
  4. The ability to notice what others might miss.
    He has an eye for talent.
  5. A meaningful stare or look.
    She was giving him the eye at the bar.
    When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
  6. A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
  7. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
  8. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
  9. The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other such storm.
  10. A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
  11. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
  12. A reproductive bud in a potato.
  13. (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.

Hyponyms[edit]

(An organ that is sensitive to light, by which means animals see): ocellus

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Terms derived from the noun eye

Translations[edit]

organ
hole in needle
loop of metal
of a hurricane
mark on an animal resembling an eye
of a potato
ability to notice what others might miss
dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower

Verb[edit]

eye (third-person singular simple present eyes, present participle eyeing or eying, simple past and past participle eyed)

  1. To observe carefully.
    After eying the document for an hour she decided not to sign it.
    They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
  2. To view something narrowly, as a document or a phrase in a document.
  3. To look at someone or something as if with the intent to do something with that person or thing.
  4. (obsolete) To appear; to look.
    • Shakespeare
      My becomings kill me, when they do not eye well to you.

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Translations[edit]

to observe carefully
to view narrowly
to look as if intending to do sthg
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