eye

noun

1. 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.”

   “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— […]”

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.”

   “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.”

5. 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, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.”

6. 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.”

7. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)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 search for their missing daughters.”

8. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
9. 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[.]”

10. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
11. 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.
12. (US)A burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.
13. A central and focal portion of any of several things.

    “the eye of the storm”

    “the eye of the hurricane”

14. (informal)A central and focal portion of any of several things.
15. A central and focal portion of any of several things.
16. A central and focal portion of any of several things.
17. A central and focal portion of any of several things.

    “loin eye”

    “rib eye”

18. A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
19. A reproductive bud in a potato.
20. That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.

    “the very eye of that proverb”

    “Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts”

21. 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.”

22. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
23. (in-plural)The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
24. The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.

    “The “e” was a bit over-inked, with a blacked-out eye.”

25. An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
26. (plural-normally)Opinion, view.

    “This victory will make us great in the eyes of the world.”

27. Synonym of pit-eye.
28. 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."”

    “IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".”

29. A brood.

    “an eye of pheasants”

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

2. (intransitive, obsolete)To appear; to look.

   “My becomings kill me, when they do not eye well to you.”

3. (transitive)To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).

   “Once the potatoes have been rumbled they require 'eyeing' with a turning knife or hand peeler.”

   “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.”

4. (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 […]”

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7. (UK, colloquial)the comedic magazine Private Eye.
8. (UK)The London Eye, a tourist attraction in London.