eye

• Noun

  1. An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
  2. The visual sense.
  3. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
  4. Attention, notice.
  5. The ability to notice what others might miss.
  6. A meaningful look or stare.
  7. Short for private eye.
  8. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
  9. The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
  10. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
  11. 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.
  12. A burner on a kitchen stove.
  13. The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
  14. A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
  15. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
  16. A reproductive bud in a potato.
  17. (informal) The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
  18. That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.
  19. A shade of colour; a tinge.
  20. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
  21. The circle in the centre of a volute.
  22. The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
  23. The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.
  24. An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
  25. Opinion, view.

• Verb