How to pronounce “eye”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
• The visual sense.
• The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
• Attention, notice.
• The ability to notice what others might miss.
• A meaningful look or stare.
• Ellipsis of private eye.
• A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
• The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
• A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
• 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.
• (US) A burner on a kitchen stove.
• The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
• A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
• The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
• A reproductive bud in a potato.
• (informal) The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
• That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.
• A shade of colour; a tinge.
• One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
• (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
• (nautical, in the plural) The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
• (typography) The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.
• (go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
• (usually in the plural) Opinion, view.
• (mining) Synonym of pit-eye.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
• (intransitive, obsolete) To appear; to look.
• (transitive) To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
• (transitive) To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.

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