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eye
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?, IPA(key): /a?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Homophones: ay, aye, I
Etymology 1
From Middle English eye, eie, yë, eighe, eyghe, y?e, ey?e, from Old English ?age (“eye”), from Proto-West Germanic *aug?, from Proto-Germanic *augô (“eye”) (compare Scots ee, West Frisian each, Dutch oog, German Auge, Norwegian Bokmål øye, Norwegian Nynorsk auga, Swedish öga), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ok?-, *h?ek?- (“eye; to see”).
See also Latin oculus (whence English oculus), Lithuanian akìs, Old Church Slavonic ??? (oko), Albanian sy, Ancient Greek ???????? (ophthalmós, “eye”), Armenian ??? (akn), Avestan ????????????? (aši, “eyes”), Sanskrit ????? (ák?i). Related to ogle.
The uncommon plural form eyen is from Middle English eyen, from Old English ?agan, nominative and accusative plural of Old English ?age (“eye”).
Noun
eye (plural eyes or (obsolete or dialectal) eyen)
- An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:eye
- Hyponym: ocellus
- The visual sense.
- The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
- Attention, notice.
- The ability to notice what others might miss.
- Synonym: perceptiveness
- A meaningful stare or look.
- A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
- 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.
- Synonym: eyelet
- The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
- A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
- The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
- A reproductive bud in a potato.
- (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
- A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc. — e.g. at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; through a crank; at the end of a rope; or through a millstone.
- That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
- Tinge; shade of colour.
- 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours
- Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.
- 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours
- One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
- (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
- (typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
- (game of Go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
- (usually in the plural) View or opinion.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: ai
Translations
See eye/translations § Noun.
See also
- tapetum lucidum
References
- Eye (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- eye on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
eye (third-person singular simple present eyes, present participle eyeing or eying, simple past and past participle eyed)
- (transitive) 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.
- 1859, Fraser's Magazine (volume 60, page 671)
- Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying.
- Synonym: gaze (poetic)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To appear; to look.
Derived terms
- eye up
- ineye
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably from rebracketing of a nye as an eye.
Noun
eye (plural eyes)
- A brood.
- an eye of pheasants
Anagrams
- Yee, yee
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English e?e, from Proto-West Germanic *agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ég?os. Doublet of awe.
Alternative forms
- eie, e?e, e??e, ey?e, ei?e
Pronunciation
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /?ej?/
- IPA(key): /??i?(?)/
- Rhymes: -?i?(?)
Noun
eye (uncountable)
- awe, reverence, worshipfulness
- horror, panic
- that which creates reverence; the exercise of power
- that which incites awe
- that which incites terror
Related terms
- eifulle (rare)
- eiliche (rare)
Descendants
- English: ey (obsolete)
References
- “eie, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-11.
Etymology 2
Noun
eye
- Alternative form of eie
Tatar
Adverb
eye
- very, of course, emphatic adverb
Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Interjection
eye
- hey!
References
- Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)?[5] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, page 126
Tocharian B
Noun
eye ?
- sheep
Umbundu
Pronoun
eye
- (third-person singular pronoun)
See also
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adductor
English
Etymology
From Latin adduco. Equivalent to adduct +? -or.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??d?kt?(?)/
- Hyphenation: ad?duc?tor
Noun
adductor (plural adductors or adductores)
- (anatomy) A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor
- 1908, Addison Emery Verrill, Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda
- He has also shown that the adductor muscles of the dactyl are very strong and so arranged as to produce the effect , while the opposing muscles are slender
- 1908, Addison Emery Verrill, Decapod Crustacea of Bermuda
Coordinate terms
- abductor
Related terms
- adduction
Translations
Interlingua
Noun
adductor (plural adductores)
- adducer
- adductor
Latin
Etymology
From add?c? +? -tor
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ad?duk.tor/, [äd??d??kt??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ad?duk.tor/, [?d??d?ukt??r]
Noun
adductor m (genitive adduct?ris); third declension
- a procurer
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- adductor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- adductor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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