eye

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ī, IPA: /aɪ/
• Homophones: ay, aye, I

Noun

eye (plural eyes or (obsolete or dialectal) eyen or (obsolete) eyne)

1. An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
   • Synonyms: see eye
   • Hyponym: ocellus
   • Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
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.
5. The ability to notice what others might miss.
   • Synonym: perceptiveness
   • He has an eye for talent.
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. Short for private eye (“a privately hire detective or investigator”).
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.
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.
    • Synonym: eyelet
11. The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
12. A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
13. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
14. A reproductive bud in a potato.
15. (informal) The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
16. 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.
17. That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.
18. A shade of colour; a tinge.
19. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
20. (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
21. (typography) The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the small letter e.
22. (game of Go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
23. (usually in the plural) Opinion, view.
    • This victory will make us great in the eyes of the world.

Verb

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

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.
   • Synonym: gaze (poetic)
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To appear; to look.
3. (transitive) To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
4. (transitive) To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.

Noun

eye (plural eyes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter I.

Noun

eye (plural eyes)

1. A brood.
   • an eye of pheasants

Anagrams

• Yee, yee

Alternative forms

• eie, eȝe, eȝȝe, eyȝe, eiȝe

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA: /ˈejə/
• IPA: /ˈɛi̯(ə)/

Noun

eye (uncountable)

1. awe, reverence, worshipfulness
2. horror, panic
3. that which creates reverence; the exercise of power
4. that which incites awe
5. that which incites terror

Noun

eye

1. Alternative form of eie

Noun

eye

1. Alternative form of ey (“egg”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /e.jé/

Noun

eyé

1. eye
2. face; surface

Pronunciation

• IPA: /e.jè/

Noun

eyè

1. nose

Adverb

eye

1. very, of course, emphatic adverb

Interjection

eye

1. hey!

Noun

eye ?

1. sheep, goat

Pronoun

eye

1. (third-person singular pronoun)

Alternative forms

• yèyé

Pronunciation

• IPA: /è.jé/

Noun

èye

1. (Ekiti) mother, mom
   • Synonyms: ìyá, ùyá, màmá, mọ́mì, abiyamọ, iye, ìmọ̀mọ́, màámi, ìmọ́ọ̀
2. a term of familiarity or respect for an older woman, or older female relative, or a priestess
   • Synonyms: ìyá, màmá, yèyé

Pronunciation

• IPA: /è.jē/

Noun

èyé

1. (Ekiti) mother, mom
   • Synonyms: ìyá, ùyá, màmá, mọ́mì, abiyamọ, iye, ìmọ̀mọ́, màámi, ìmọ́ọ̀
2. a term of familiarity or respect for an older woman, or older female relative
   • Synonyms: ìyá, màmá, yèyé