Definition of "eye" in Anglais

noun

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

   • Near-synonym: eyeball
   • Bright lights really hurt my eyes.

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. Attention, notice.

   • That dress caught her eye.

5. The ability to notice what others might miss.

   • He has an eye for talent.

6. 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.

7. Ellipsis of private eye.

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. (US) A burner on a kitchen stove.

13. The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.

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

15. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.

16. A reproductive bud in a potato.

17. (informal) The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.

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

19. A shade of colour; a tinge.

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

21. (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.

22. (nautical, in the plural) The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.

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

24. (go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.

25. (usually in the plural) Opinion, view.

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