eye
/ʌɪ
/- They believe the optic nerve in short sighted eyes might be more vulnerable to computer stress.
- Kiri is registered blind after inheriting an eye disease from partially sighted Daphne.
- This is beyond the capacity of the human eye, which may explain why so many offside decisions are controversial
Synonyms
- As in all arthropods, the eye surface had to be molted along with the rest of the hard exoskeleton.
- Daphnia magna has a light-sensitive eye, meaning that the eye will track a moving light source.
- The children were constantly coughing, had runny noses, and their eyes would swell up.
- I'd left my hat in Atlanta and one of my eyes was already swelling from the beating.
- His shoulder was scratched, his body aches all over and his eyes are slightly swollen.
- The secret appears to be: keep costs low, have cred and employ editors with wit and sharp eyes.
- Bless our eyes with vision, that we may see our lives and the life that you give us.
- Tearing my eyes away from this vision of male pulchritude, I notice yet another Gable.
Synonyms
- For it is in the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of public opinion.
- Secondly, how would a customer be viewed in the eyes of the public?
- Internal working models of the self are opinions about how one is viewed in the eyes of others.
Synonyms
The basic components of the vertebrate eye are a transparent cornea, an adjustable iris, a lens for focusing, a sensitive retina lining the back of the eye, and a clear fluid- or jelly-filled centre. The most primitive animals only have one or two eyespots, while many other invertebrates have several simple eyes or a pair of compound eyes.
- Position and glue eyes into place behind the windows in each of the copper shapes.
- On a size ten hook, like the one that I have used, that will be about 5mm behind the eye of the hook.
- The train feathers have a series of eyes that are best seen when the tail is fanned.
- It is pleased when others look at the eyes on its tail feathers; it pulls them all together in a cluster for this purpose.
- The eyes and even sprouting potatoes are safe to use but they may not keep well.
- However, as we've just said, roots don't have buds, and that's exactly what you see sprouting on the potato, arising from the potato's eyes.
- As he stared into the eyes of the flower bud, memories began to flood within his own.
- Each eye forms a cluster of roots, and furnishes a very fine stock, which is taken up after winter.
- Each flower eye has expanded to the familiar pineapple-like criss-cross pattern.
- In this context, summer can seem merely like the brief and insignificant calm in the eye of the hurricane.
- Why can't we come up with solutions to try and disrupt the eye of the hurricane somehow?
- And in the course of the afternoon, meteorologists tell us the eye of the hurricane will start to pass over this island itself.
Synonyms
- Access to the quarters below was down a cuddy or slide just forward of the foremast, the crew's quarters being forward in the eyes of the ship.
- Passengers are normally allowed into the "eyes" of the ship and this will give you an unrestricted view ahead.
- That's when I looked at the top point of a star and realized that a tiny hole, barely larger then the eye of a needle, had been placed in it.
- Passes were threaded together and some of them would have gone through the eye of a needle.
- An army of tiny red eyes met him, none larger than the eye of a needle.
Synonyms
- Secondly, the hook can be fastened with a loop so that the lask end of the strip can be trapped against the eye of the hook with the loop.
- They were fastened down the front with buttons or with or with hooks and eyes.
- The double overhand knot is tied through the eye of the hook and of the swivel, then secured with either a single or double crimp.
- Having a permanently fixed loop (eye splice) on a rope-end removes the need to tie and then untie a knot each time you wish to use it.
- This is one of many river eyes in the area.
- The tender stood there polishing a unique-looking shot glass, eying the newcomers closely.
- After eying them closely from the distance, they began to approach closer.
- As it poured incessantly out of him, he noticed a bull across the field eyeing him interestingly.
Synonyms
- So when this outgoing, funny, handsome man from the New York office joined our department briefly, I eyed him up with some interest.
- That means they are eyeing you up for credit value before naming their price.
- I was there one night with my friend Tracy, we were a bit of an icon in those days, and Dave and his mate were eyeing us up, but we both fancied his friend.
Phrases
all eyes are on ——
be all eyes
before (or in front of or under) one's (very) eyes
cannot take one's eyes off
clap (or lay or set) eyes on
close (or shut) one's eyes to
an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
the eye of the wind
eyes front (or left or right)
eyes out
eyes out on stalks
a ——'s-eye view
for your (or his, her, etc.) eyes only
get (or keep) one's eye in
give someone the eye
half an eye
have an eye for
have (or keep) one's eye on
have (or with) an eye to
have (or with) an eye to (or for or on) the main chance
have eyes bigger than one's stomach (or belly)
(only) have eyes for
have eyes in the back of one's head
hit someone in the eye (or between the eyes)
keep an eye on
keep an eye out (or open)
keep one's eyes open (or peeled or skinned)
make eyes at someone
my eye (or all my eye and Betty Martin)
one in the eye for
open someone's eyes
see eye to eye
a twinkle (or gleam) in someone's eye
up to the (or one's) eyes (in)
what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
with one's eyes open
with one's eyes shut (or closed)
with one eye on
Derivatives
eyeless
/ adjective ...- Blind, totally eyeless trilobites have given us another indication of the range of trilobite habits and habitats.
- Here are the legless, armless, eyeless and toothless; the polio-crippled, the mine-maimed, the buboed and leprous, the self-mutilated and the plain mad.
- Recent additions at Oceanworld, courtesy of the alert fishermen, include a snow white black sole, a white, eyeless monkfish and an unusual white skate.
Origin
Old English ēage, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch oog and German Auge.
An Old English word that has given rise to a huge number of phrases in English. The eyes are the window of the soul is a proverb that goes back at least to 1545, when it is found in the form ‘The eyes…are the windows of the mind, for both joy and anger…are seen through them’. The same idea was expressed by the Roman orator Cicero in the 1st century bc: ‘The face is a picture of the mind as the eyes are its interpreter.’ An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth refers to the law set out in the Old Testament book of Exodus: ‘Thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound.’ The eye of a needle is a tiny opening through which it would seem impossible to pass. The reference is to the Gospel of Matthew, where Jesus said, ‘It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.’
A person who has an eye for the main chance is on the lookout for an opportunity to profit. The origins of this expression lie in the gambling game of hazard, in which the person about to throw the dice calls out a number between five and nine. This number is called the main or the main chance, and if someone rolls it they have won. If you would give your eye teeth for something you would do anything in order to have it. The eye teeth are the two pointed teeth in the upper jaw, so called because they are more or less immediately below the eyes, and are essential for tearing off chunks of food. They are more usually called canine teeth from the Latin for dog, referring to this animal's prominent examples. To give someone the hairy eyeball is to stare at them coldly or contemptuously. The image behind this American expression is of someone glaring with their eyes narrowed and partly closed: the hairy eyeball is the effect of seeing the eyeball through the eylashes. Keep your eyes peeled comes from the idea of ‘peeling’ the covering from your eyes to see as clearly as possible. It goes back to the 1850s in the USA, but now is particularly associated with Police 5, a long-running British TV show that appealed to the public for information to solve crimes. The catchphrase of the presenter, Shaw Taylor, at the end of each programme was ‘Keep 'em peeled!’