eye | Lernwerd

Forms

1.An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
- Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
- It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.
- The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages.
2.The visual sense.
- The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
3.Attention, notice.
- That dress caught her eye.
4.The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
- Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.
- Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.

1.To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
- They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
- After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.
- Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying.
2.To consider.
- Mr. Smith is eyeing a departmental reorganization plan.
3.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.
4.To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.

Very common· #283

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der.

Proto-Germanic *augô

Proto-West Germanic *augā

Old English ēage

Middle English eye

English eye