Meaning of eye | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The name of the Latin script letter I/i.
2. A brood.
3. An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
4. A place name:
5. A large village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF2202).
6. the comedic magazine Private Eye.
   UK, colloquial
7. Fully attentive.
8. keyhole
9. The visual sense.
10. A small village in Eye, Moreton and Ashton parish, north Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4963).
11. The London Eye, a tourist attraction in London.
    UK
12. Punishment in which an offender suffers what the victim has suffered.
13. caution
14. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
15. A small town and civil parish with a town council in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1473).
16. To look at.
17. look! watch out!
18. Attention, notice.
19. A short river in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, which joins the River Dikler.
20. In agreement: We're eye to eye on all the vital issues.
21. The ability to notice what others might miss.
22. A river in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England, which becomes the River Wreake.
23. To be interested in.
24. A meaningful look or stare.
25. A former unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States.
26. In a direction opposite that of the wind; close to the wind.
27. Ellipsis of private eye.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
28. In no way; not at all. Used interjectionally.
29. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
30. The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
31. With a view to: redecorated the room with an eye to its future use as a nursery.
32. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
33. Unaware of the risks involved.
34. 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.
35. Aware of the risks involved.
36. A burner on a kitchen stove.
    US
37. The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
38. A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
39. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
40. A reproductive bud in a potato.
41. The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
    informal
42. That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.
43. A shade of colour; a tinge.
44. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
45. The circle in the centre of a volute.
46. The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
    in-plural
47. The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.
48. An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
49. Opinion, view.
    plural-normally
50. Synonym of pit-eye.

Equivalents

Examples

“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— […]”

“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 car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.”

“Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.”

“Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.”

“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.”

“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.”

“She was giving him the eye at the bar.”

“When the car cut her off, she gave him the 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.”

“[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[.]”

“the very eye of that proverb”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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".”

“an eye of pheasants”

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