Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organ of vision or of light sensitivity.
- noun Either of a pair of hollow structures located in bony sockets of the skull, functioning together or independently, each having a lens capable of focusing incident light on an internal photosensitive retina from which nerve impulses are sent to the brain; the vertebrate organ of vision.
- noun The external, visible portion of this organ together with its associated structures, especially the eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows.
- noun The pigmented iris of this organ.
- noun The faculty of seeing; vision.
- noun The ability to make intellectual or aesthetic judgments.
- noun A way of regarding something; a point of view.
- noun Attention.
- noun Watchful attention or supervision.
- noun Something suggestive of the vertebrate organ of vision, especially.
- noun An opening in a needle.
- noun The aperture of a camera.
- noun A loop, as of metal, rope, or thread.
- noun A circular marking on a peacock's feather.
- noun Chiefly Southern US The round flat cover over the hole on the top of a wood-burning stove.
- noun A photosensitive device, such as a photoelectric cell.
- noun A bud on a twig or tuber.
- noun The often differently colored center of the corolla of some flowers.
- noun Meteorology The circular area of relative calm at the center of a cyclone.
- noun The center or focal point of attention or action.
- noun Informal A detective, especially a private investigator.
- noun A choice center cut of meat, as of beef.
- transitive verb To look at.
- transitive verb To watch closely.
- transitive verb To supply with an eye.
- idiom (all eyes) Fully attentive.
- idiom (an eye for an eye) Punishment in which an offender suffers what the victim has suffered.
- idiom (clap/lay) /set) To look at.
- idiom (eye to eye) In agreement.
- idiom (have eyes for) To be interested in.
- idiom (have (one's) eye on) To look at, especially attentively or continuously.
- idiom (have (one's) eye on) To have as one's objective.
- idiom (in the eye of the wind) In a direction opposite that of the wind; close to the wind.
- idiom (in the public eye) Frequently seen in public or in the media.
- idiom (in the public eye) Widely publicized; well-known.
- idiom (my eye) In no way; not at all. Used interjectionally.
- idiom (with an eye to) With a view to.
- idiom (with (one's) eyes closed) Unaware of the risks involved.
- idiom (with (one's) eyes open) Aware of the risks involved.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fix the eye on; look at; view; observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly or with fixed attention.
- To make an eye in: as, to
eye a needle. - To be seen; appear; have an appearance.
- noun A brood: as, an eye or a shoal of fish.
- noun In some echinoids, a minute pigmented nodule, probably without visual functions, situated at the end of an ambulacrum.
- noun In photography, the spectral range of wave-lengths to which a photographic plate or film is sensitive
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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_Why beboldest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye_?
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I looked round, and the baboon caught my eye, which told him plainly that he'd soon catch what was not at all _my eye_; and he proved that he actually thought so, for he at once put the bread-and-butter back into the boy's hands!
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"If a man sell a horse which is lame, no action lyes for that, but _caveat emptor_; and when I sell a horse that has _no_ eye, there no action lies; otherwise where he has a counterfeit, false, and _bright eye_."
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If 'and-éges' be accepted, the sentence will read: _No hero ... dared look upon her, eye to eye_.
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PARNELL (_ironically, after a pause of scrutiny eye to eye_).
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The dog's eye therefore, without any consciousness on his own part, becomes in such a case _an evil eye_: upon me, at least, it fell with as painful an effect as any established eye of that class could do upon the most superstitious Portuguese.
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This is another passage unnecessarily obscure: the meaning is, that when he _dazzles_, that is, has his eye made weak, _by fixing his eye upon a fairer eye, that_ fairer _eye shall be his heed_, his
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The biblical adage of «an eye for eye» is a statute of limitation, not a spur to indiscriminate reprisal.
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So also that other, _Why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye_? [
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Retribution should not be a part of what we're talking about. "avengement, avenging, comeuppance, compensation, counterblow, eye for an eye*, just desserts,
brobbins commented on the word eye
well of water, Providence, watchfulness
July 22, 2009
tbtabby commented on the word eye
Hollywood slang for CBS.
August 26, 2009