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eye
- Main Entry:
- 1eye
- Pronunciation:
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\ˈī\
- Function:
- noun
- Etymology:
- Middle English, from Old English ēage; akin to Old High German ouga eye, Latin oculus, Greek ōps eye, face, Sanskrit akṣi eye
- Date:
- before 12th century
1 a: a specialized light-sensitive sensory structure of animals that in nearly all vertebrates, most arthropods, and some mollusks is the image-forming organ of sight; especially : the nearly spherical usually paired hollow organ of sight in vertebrates that is filled with a jellylike material, is lined with a photosensitive retina, and is lodged in a bony orbit in the skull b: all the visible structures within and surrounding the orbit and including eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows c (1): the faculty of seeing with eyes (2): the faculty of intellectual or aesthetic perception or appreciation <an eye for beauty> (3): skill or ability dependent upon eyesight <a batter with a good eye> d: look, glance <cast an eager eye> e (1): an attentive look <kept an eye on his valuables> (2): attention, notice <caught his eye> (3): close observation : scrutiny <works under the eye of her boss> <in the public eye> f: point of view, judgment <beauty is in the eye of the beholder> —often used in plural <an offender in the eyes of the law>2: something having an appearance suggestive of an eye: as a: the hole through the head of a needle b: a usually circular marking (as on a peacock's tail) c: loop; especially : a loop or catch to receive a hook d: an undeveloped bud (as on a potato) e: an area like a hole in the center of a tropical cyclone marked by only light winds or complete calm with no precipitation f: the center of a flower especially when differently colored or marked; specifically : the disk of a composite g (1): a triangular piece of beef cut from between the top and bottom of a round (2): the chief muscle of a chop (3): a compact mass of muscular tissue usually embedded in fat in a rib or loin cut of meat h: a device (as a photoelectric cell) that functions in a manner analogous to human vision 3: something central : center <the eye of the problem — Norman Mailer>4: the direction from which the wind is blowing
— eye·less \ˈī-ləs\ adjective — eye·like \-ˌlīk\ adjective — an eye for an eye : retribution in kind — my eye —used to express mild disagreement or sometimes surprise <a diamond, my eye! That's glass> — with an eye to also with an eye toward 1: with awareness or contemplation of <with an eye to the future>2: with the object of <built the house with an eye to adding on later>
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