Eye

/ˈaɪ̯/ · noun

Meaning

An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”)..

Definitions by Sense

1. An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
2. The visual sense.
3. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
4. Attention, notice.
5. The ability to notice what others might miss.
6. A meaningful look or stare.
7. Ellipsis of private eye.
8. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: eyeball

Bright lights really hurt my eyes.

To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thine eyne? / Chriſtall is muddy.

Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]

Now with a bitter smile, whose light did shine / Like a fiend’s hope upon his lips and eyne, / He said, and the persuasion of that sneer / Rallied his trembling comrades— […]

It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.

She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.

[H]is eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.

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Word Forms

• eyes
• eyen
• eyeing
• eying
• eyed
• i

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