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notice
English
Alternative forms
- not. (abbreviation)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French notice, from the Latin notitia.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n??t?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?no?t?s/, [?no???s]
- Hyphenation: no?tice
Noun
notice (countable and uncountable, plural notices)
- (chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
- How ready is envy to mingle with the notices which we take of other persons?
- (countable) A written or printed announcement.
- (countable) A formal notification or warning.
- (chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
- (countable) A published critical review of a play or the like.
- 1989, The New York Times Theater Reviews, 1920- (volume 18, page 167)
- The first-night audience, yes. The first-night reviewers, not exactly. The notices have so far been mixed, only The Financial Times having delivered itself of an unequivocal rave.
- 1989, The New York Times Theater Reviews, 1920- (volume 18, page 167)
- (uncountable) Prior notification.
- (dated) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.
Synonyms
- (attention): heed, regard; see also Thesaurus:attention
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
notice (third-person singular simple present notices, present participle noticing, simple past and past participle noticed)
- (transitive, now rare) To remark upon; to mention. [from 17th c.]
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 88:
- Numberless are the arguments […] that men have used morally and physically, to degrade the sex. I must notice a few.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 88:
- (transitive) To become aware of; to observe. [from 17th c.]
- 1991, Gregory Widen, Backdraft
- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
- 1991, Gregory Widen, Backdraft
- (obsolete, transitive) To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably. [17th–19th c.]
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, vol. I, ch. 3
- She would notice her; she would improve her; she would detach her from her bad acquaintance, and introduce her into good society; she would form her opinions and her manners.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, vol. I, ch. 3
- (intransitive) To be noticeable; to show. [from 20th c.]
- 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy 2010, p. 9:
- The blackness didn't notice so much when she was born; but it's unmistakeable now.
- 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy 2010, p. 9:
Synonyms
- recognize
Antonyms
- ignore
- neglect
Translations
Anagrams
- conite, ecotin, neotic, noetic
French
Etymology
From Latin notitia
Noun
notice f (plural notices)
- instruction
- Avez-vous lu la notice avant de monter le meuble?
Further reading
- “notice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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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)
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