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1 a: a specialized light-sensitive sensory structure of animals that in nearly all vertebrates, most arthropods, and some mollusks is the image-forming organ of sight
; especially : the nearly spherical usually paired hollow organ of sight in vertebrates that is filled with a jellylike material, is lined with a photosensitive retina, and is lodged in a bony orbit in the skull b: all the visible structures within and surrounding the orbit and including eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows c
(1): the faculty of seeing with eyes
(2): the faculty of intellectual or aesthetic perception or appreciation <an eye for beauty>
(3): skill or ability dependent upon eyesight <a batter with a good eye> d: look
, glance <cast an eager eye> e
(1): an attentive look <kept an eye on his valuables>
(2): attention
, notice <caught his eye>
(3): close observation : scrutiny <works under the eye of her boss> <in the public eye> f: point of view
, judgment <beauty is in the eye of the beholder> —often used in plural <an offender in the eyes of the law>2: something having an appearance suggestive of an eye: as a: the hole through the head of a needle b: a usually circular marking (as on a peacock's tail) c: loop
; especially : a loop or catch to receive a hook d: an undeveloped bud (as on a potato) e: an area like a hole in the center of a tropical cyclone marked by only light winds or complete calm with no precipitation f: the center of a flower especially when differently colored or marked
; specifically : the disk of a composite g
(1): a triangular piece of beef cut from between the top and bottom of a round
(2): the chief muscle of a chop
(3): a compact mass of muscular tissue usually embedded in fat in a rib or loin cut of meat h: a device (as a photoelectric cell) that functions in a manner analogous to human vision 3: something central : center <the eye of the problem
— Norman Mailer>4: the direction from which the wind is blowing
— eye·less
\ˈī-ləs\
adjective
— eye·like
\-ˌlīk\
adjective
— an eye for an eye
: retribution in kind
— my eye
—used to express mild disagreement or sometimes surprise <a diamond, my eye! That's glass>
— with an eye to also with an eye toward
1: with awareness or contemplation of <with an eye to the future>2: with the object of <built the house with an eye to adding on later>
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