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eye

noun
/ˈaɪ̯//ˈaɪ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der. Proto-Germanic *augô Proto-West Germanic *augā Old English ēage Middle English eye English eye From Middle English eye, yë, eyghe, from Old English ēage (“eye”), from Proto-West Germanic *augā, from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”). Related to ogle. Cognates Cognate with Scots ee, eh (“eye”), North Frisian Oog, uug (“eye”), Saterland Frisian Oge, Ooge (“eye”), West Frisian each (“eye”), Alemannic German, Bavarian Aug (“eye”), Central Franconian Au, Auch, Ooch (“eye”), Dutch oog (“eye”), German Aug, Auge (“eye”), Low German Auge, Oog (“eye”), Luxembourgish A (“eye”), Vilamovian aojg, aug, oüg (“eye”), Yiddish אויג (oyg, “eye”), Danish øje (“eye”), Elfdalian oga (“eye”), Faroese eyga (“eye”), Icelandic auga (“eye”), Norwegian Bokmål øye (“eye”), Norwegian Nynorsk aua, aue, auga, auge (“eye”), Scanian yva (“eye”), Swedish öga (“eye”), Crimean Gothic oeghene (“eyes”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌲𐍉 (augō, “eye”). Other Indo-European cognates include Latin oculus (whence English oculus), Lithuanian aki̇̀s, Old Church Slavonic око (oko), Albanian sy, Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps, “(poetic) eye; face”) and ὄσσε (ósse, “eyes”), Armenian ակն (akn), Avestan 𐬀𐬱𐬌 (aši, “eyes”), Sanskrit अक्षि (ákṣi). The archaic plural form eyen is from Middle English eyen, from Old English ēaġan, nominative and accusative plural of ēaġe (“eye”).

  1. inherited from ēaġan
  2. inherited from eyen
  3. derived from *h₃okʷ-✻
  4. inherited from *augô✻ — “eye”
  5. inherited from *augā✻
  6. inherited from ēage — “eye”
  7. inherited from eye

Definitions

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

    • Near-synonym: eyeball
    • Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
    • To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thine eyne? / Chriſtall is muddy.

  2. The visual sense.

    • The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.

  3. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.

    • Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
    • Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.
  4. ›+ 29 more definitions

    1. Attention, notice.

      • That dress caught her eye.

    2. The ability to notice what others might miss.

      • He has an eye for talent.

    3. A meaningful look or stare.

      • She was giving him the eye at the bar.
      • When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.

    4. Ellipsis of private eye.

    5. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.

    6. The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.

      • [H]e struck the Duffer a sharp blow on the back of the head with the eye of the axe, and left him stunned and senseless on the earth[.]

    7. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook…

      A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.

    8. A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a hook, pin,…

      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.

    9. A burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.

    10. A central and focal portion of any of several things.

      • the eye of the storm
      • the eye of the hurricane

    11. A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.

    12. A reproductive bud in a potato.

    13. That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.

      • the very eye of that proverb
      • Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts

    14. A shade of colour

      A shade of colour; a tinge.

      • Red vvith an Eye of Blevv, makes a Purple; and by theſe ſimple Compoſitions again Compounded among themſelves, the Skilful Painter can produce vvhat kind of Colour he pleaſes, and a great many more than vve have yet Names for.

    15. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.

    16. The foremost part of a ship's bows

      The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.

    17. The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.

      • The “e” was a bit over-inked, with a blacked-out eye.

    18. An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.

    19. Opinion, view.

      • This victory will make us great in the eyes of the world.

    20. Synonym of pit-eye.

    21. To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).

      • After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.
      • They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
      • Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying.

    22. To appear

      To appear; to look.

      • My becomings kill me, when they do not eye well to you.

    23. To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).

      • Once the potatoes have been rumbled they require 'eyeing' with a turning knife or hand peeler.
      • My first assignment was eyeing old potatoes. The Siegler brothers would buy potatoes so old they looked like an octopus. My job was to make them look presentable and, of course, sellable.

    24. To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.

      • Eggs were collected from the Taylor Creek, Upper Truckee River, and Blackwood Creek traps and transported to this station to be eyed […]

    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."
      • IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".

    26. A brood.

      • an eye of pheasants

    27. A place name

      A place name:

    28. the comedic magazine Private Eye.

    29. The London Eye, a tourist attraction in London.

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Derived

adze-eye hammer, after-eye, all eyes, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, all-seeing eye, almond eye, an eye for an eye, angel eye, apotropaic eye, apple of someone's eye, apple of the eye, as far as the eye can see, as far as the eye could see, a sheet in the wind's eye, bad eye, bag around one's eye, bag around the eye, bag below one's eye, bag below the eye, bag beneath one's eye, bag beneath the eye, bag under one's eye, bag under the eye, bare-eye, barreleye, bat an eye, bat of an eye, beady eye, beauty is in the eye of the beer holder, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, believe one's eyes, better than a poke in the eye, better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, bigeye, big eye, birdeye, bird's-eye, bird's eye chili, bird's-eye maple · +470 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at eye. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at eye. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at eye

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA