Sekirov Dictionary

eye

/ˈaɪ̯/

noun33

  1. a part of the body that people and animals use to see
  2. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
  3. Attention, notice.
  4. [usually plural] Opinion, view.
  5. The ability to notice what others might miss.
  6. The visual sense.
  7. A meaningful look or stare.
  8. An angry, annoyed, or malicious one.
  9. An evil one.
  10. (informal) A sexually or romantically suggestive one.
  11. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
  12. The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
  13. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
  14. 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.
  15. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
  16. The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.
  17. A central and focal portion of any of several things.
  18. The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
  19. The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
  20. The hilum of a seed or bean, or the hilum plus any rings of color that surround it; for example, the dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
  21. The circle in the centre of a volute.
  22. A central area in a portion of a carcass being butchered into cuts of meat, such as a certain muscle partly surrounded by fat (for example, a longissimus dorsi); a cut that includes a portion of it.
  23. Ellipsis of private eye.
  24. A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
  25. 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." — 2004
  26. A reproductive bud in a potato.
  27. (US) A burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.
  28. An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
  29. That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.
  30. A shade of colour; a tinge.
  31. [in the plural] The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
  32. Synonym of pit-eye.
  33. A brood.

verb5

  1. To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
  2. To consider.
  3. To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
  4. To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.
  5. (no longer used) To appear; to look.
forms

eyed · eyeing · eying · eyes · eyeth · eyen

Phrases with eye

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