eye
Meaning of eye
noun
- An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).
Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
- 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.
- Attention, notice.
That dress caught her eye.
- The ability to notice what others might miss.
He has an eye for talent.
- A meaningful stare or look.
She was giving him the eye at the bar.
- A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
- 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.
- A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
- The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
- A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
- The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
- A reproductive bud in a potato.
- The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
- A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc. — e.g. at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; through a crank; at the end of a rope; or through a millstone.
- That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
- Tinge; shade of colour.
- One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
- The circle in the centre of a volute.
- The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
- (game of go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
- (usually plural) View or opinion.
This victory will make us great in the eyes of the world.
- To observe carefully or appraisingly.
After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.
- To appear; to look.
- A brood.
an eye of pheasants
Information about eye
- The plural form of eye is: eyes.
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Hyphenation of eye
eye
- It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
- eye is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
eye synonyms
Meaning oculus:
Meaning center:
Meaning eyeball:
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Translation of eye
- Spanish: ojo, negro, mirar, fijarse
- German: Auge, Augen
- Italian: occhio, cruna, gemma, guardare, fissare, occhieggiare, adocchiare, sbirciare
- Portuguese: olho, buraco
- French: œil, chas
Anagrams of eye
Words that rhyme with eye
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