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Definition eye
Etymology 1
From Middle English eye, eie, yë, eighe, eyghe, y?e, ey?e, from Old English ?age (“eye”), from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”) (compare Scots ee, West Frisian each, Dutch oog, German Auge, Norwegian Bokmål øye, Norwegian Nynorsk auga, Swedish öga), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ok?-, *h?ek?- (“eye; to see”) (compare Latin oculus, Lithuanian akìs, Old Church Slavonic ??? (oko), Albanian sy, Ancient Greek ???????? (ophthalmós, “eye”), Armenian ??? (akn), Avestan ??? (aši, “eyes”), Sanskrit ????? (ák?i)). Related to ogle.
The uncommon plural form eyen is from Middle English eyen, from Old English ?agan, nominative and accusative plural of Old English ?age (“eye”).
Noun
eye (plural eyes or (obsolete or dialectal) eyen)
- An organ through which animals see.
- The visual sense.
- The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
- Attention, notice.
- The ability to notice what others might miss.
- A meaningful stare or look.
- A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
- A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
- 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 such 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.
- (informal) 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.
- (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
- (typography) 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.
Verb
eye (third-person singular simple present eyes, present participle eyeing or eying, simple past and past participle eyed)
- (transitive) To observe carefully or appraisingly.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To appear; to look.
Etymology 2
Probably from a nye changing to an eye.
Noun
eye (plural eyes)
- A brood.
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