EGAVE

eye

About 63.85 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
    Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
  2. noun The visual sense.
    The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
  3. noun The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
    Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
  4. noun Attention, notice.
    That dress caught her eye.
  5. noun The ability to notice what others might miss.
    He has an eye for talent.
  6. noun A meaningful look or stare. A sexually or romantically suggestive one.
    She was giving him the eye at the bar.
  7. noun A sexually or romantically suggestive one.
    She was giving him the eye at the bar.
  8. noun An angry, annoyed, or malicious one.
    When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.

Similar words

optic heart eyeball oculus peeper middle center centre ocular ophthalmic

Often followed by

of and on to is for contact in was

Word family

eyed eyeing eyeless eyelike eyer eyers eyes eying

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