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eye

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ?, IPA(key): /a?/
  • Rhymes: -a?
  • Homophones: ay, aye, I

Etymology 1

From Middle English eye, eie, , 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)

  1. An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:eye
    Hyponym: ocellus
  2. The visual sense.
  3. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
  4. Attention, notice.
  5. The ability to notice what others might miss.
    Synonym: perceptiveness
  6. A meaningful stare or look.
  7. A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
  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.
    Synonym: eyelet
  11. The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
  12. A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
  13. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
  14. A reproductive bud in a potato.
  15. (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
  16. 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.
  17. That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
  18. Tinge; shade of colour.
    • 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours
      Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.
  19. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
  20. (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
  21. (typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
  22. (game of Go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
  23. (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)

  1. (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)
  2. (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)

  1. 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)

  1. awe, reverence, worshipfulness
  2. horror, panic
  3. that which creates reverence; the exercise of power
  4. that which incites awe
  5. 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

  1. Alternative form of eie

Tatar

Adverb

eye

  1. very, of course, emphatic adverb

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Interjection

eye

  1. 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 ?

  1. sheep

Umbundu

Pronoun

eye

  1. (third-person singular pronoun)

See also

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fringe

English

Etymology

From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, metathesis of Latin fimbriae (fibers, threads, fringe, plural). (Cognates include German Franse and Danish frynse.) Doublet of fimbria.

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??nd?/
  • Rhymes: -?nd?

Noun

fringe (plural fringes)

  1. A decorative border.
    the fringe of a picture
  2. A marginal or peripheral part.
    • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year []
      the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance
  3. Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
  4. The periphery of a town or city (or other area).
  5. (Britain) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
    Her fringe is so long it covers her eyes.
    • 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
      In a few minutes Mrs. Athelny appeared. She had taken her hair out of the curling pins and now wore an elaborate fringe.
    • “No.” Astrid?s tone dismissed Sophie and the fringe as she galloped off to a new topic.
    • 2009, Geraldine Biddle-Perry, Sarah Cheang, Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion, page 231,
      Set against the seductive visual and textual imagery of these soft-focus fantasy worlds, the stock list details offer the reader a very real solution to achieving the look themselves, ‘Hair, including coloured fringes (obtainable from Joseph, £3.50) by Paul Nix’ (Baker 1972a: 68).
  6. (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
    interference fringe
  7. Non-mainstream theatre.
    The Fringe; Edinburgh Fringe; Adelaide Fringe
  8. (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
  9. (golf) The area around the green
  10. (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 20:
      All the fringe people thought it was such a good house, ingenious in fact, and erected similar makeshift housing for themselves.
  11. (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.

Synonyms

  • (members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views): fringe group
  • (periphery of a town or city): outskirts

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

fringe (not comparable)

  1. Outside the mainstream.

Synonyms

  • alternative
  • nonmainstream

Translations

Verb

fringe (third-person singular simple present fringes, present participle fringing, simple past and past participle fringed)

  1. (transitive) To decorate with fringe.
  2. (transitive) To serve as a fringe.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Finger, finger

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