Eye vs. Glim — What's the Difference?

Eyes are organs of the visual system. They provide animals with vision, the ability to receive and process visual detail, as well as enabling several photo response functions that are independent of vision.

Glim (Arabic: جليم‎) is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt.

An organ of vision or of light sensitivity.

A source of light, as a candle.

Either of a pair of hollow structures located in bony sockets of the skull, functioning together or independently, each having a lens capable of focusing incident light on an internal photosensitive retina from which nerve impulses are sent to the brain; the vertebrate organ of vision.

The illumination given off by such a source.

The external, visible portion of this organ together with its associated structures, especially the eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows.

(obsolete) brightness; splendour

The pigmented iris of this organ.

A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.

The faculty of seeing; vision.

An eye.

The ability to make intellectual or aesthetic judgments:has a good eye for understated fashion.

A pair of glasses or spectacles.

A way of regarding something; a point of view:To my eye, the decorations are excellent.

A look; a glimpse.

Attention:The lavish window display immediately got my eye.

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Watchful attention or supervision:always under his boss's eye; kept an eye on her valuables.

Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).

An opening in a needle.

To brand on the hand.

The aperture of a camera.

To illuminate.

A loop, as of metal, rope, or thread.

To see; to observe.

A circular marking on a peacock's feather.

Brightness; splendor.

Chiefly Southern US The round flat cover over the hole on the top of a wood-burning stove.Also called regionallycap1, griddle.

A light or candle.

A photosensitive device, such as a photoelectric cell.

A bud on a twig or tuber:the eye of a potato.

The often differently colored center of the corolla of some flowers.

(Meteorology)The circular area of relative calm at the center of a cyclone.

The center or focal point of attention or action:right in the eye of the controversy.

(Informal)A detective, especially a private investigator.

A choice center cut of meat, as of beef:eye of the round.

To look at:eyed the passing crowd with indifference.

To watch closely:eyed the shark's movements.

To supply with an eye.

An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).

The visual sense.

The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.

Attention, notice.

The ability to notice what others might miss.

A meaningful stare or look.

A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.

A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.

The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.

A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.

The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.

A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.

The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.

A reproductive bud in a potato.

(informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.

A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, 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.

That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.

Tinge; shade of colour.

One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.

(architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.

(typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.

(game of go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.

View or opinion.

(transitive) To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).

To appear; to look.

(transitive) To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).

(transitive) To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.

A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.

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 eyes are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus.

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 a sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.

The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion.

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.

Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard.

That which resembles the organ of sight, in form, position, or appearance

That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.

Tinge; shade of color.

To fix the eye on; to stare at; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention; to hold in view.

To appear; to look.

The organ of sight

Good discernment (either with the eyes or as if with the eyes);

Attention to what is seen;

An area that is approximately central within some larger region;

A small hole or loop (as in a needle);

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