Dictionary Entry
eye
eye is a 3-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A brood; as, an eye of pheasants. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 5 · 25 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.
- 2noun
The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus.
- 3noun
The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.
- 4noun
The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion.
- 5noun
The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence.
- 6noun
Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard.
- 7noun
That which resembles the organ of sight, in form, position, or appearance
- 8noun
The spots on a feather, as of peacock.
- 9noun
The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop.
- 10noun
The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a potato.
- 11noun
The center of a target; the bull's-eye.
- 12noun
A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress.
- 13noun
The hole through the head of a needle.
- 14noun
A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope.
- 15noun
The hole through the upper millstone.
- 16noun
That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
- 17noun
Tinge; shade of color.
- 18transitive verb
To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention; to hold in view.
- 19intransitive verb
To appear; to look.
- 20noun
a small hole or loop (as in a needle)
"the thread wouldn't go through the eye"
- 21noun
the organ of sight
- 22noun
good discernment (either visually or as if visually)
"she has an eye for fresh talent"
"he has an artist's eye"
- 23noun
attention to what is seen
"he tried to catch her eye"
- 24noun
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
"it is in the center of town"
"they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"
- 25verb
look at
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