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      eye
      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.
      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.
      The name of the Latin-script letter I/i.
      A brood.
      A small town and civil parish with a town council in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1473).
      A large village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF2202).
      A small village in Eye, Moreton and Ashton parish, north Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4963).
      A short river in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, which joins the River Dikler.
      A river in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England, which becomes the River Wreake.
      A former unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States.
      (UK, colloquial, "the Eye") the comedic magazine Private Eye.
      (UK, "the Eye") The London Eye, a tourist attraction in London.
      A place name:
      Ellipsis of private eye. [(idiomatic) A private personal detective, employed to gather information about someone.]
      verb
      (transitive) To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
      (transitive) To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
      (transitive) To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.
      (intransitive, obsolete) To appear; to look.
      Synonyms for eye
      eyeballnoculusnopticadjocularadjeyelidnesotropianeyesightngazensightednessnsightn
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