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Eye

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

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

Eye

An organ of vision or of light sensitivity.

Glim

A source of light, as a candle.

Eye

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.
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Glim

The illumination given off by such a source.

Eye

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

Glim

(obsolete) brightness; splendour

Eye

The pigmented iris of this organ.

Glim

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

The faculty of seeing; vision.

Glim

An eye.

Eye

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

Glim

A pair of glasses or spectacles.

Eye

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

Glim

A look; a glimpse.

Eye

Attention:The lavish window display immediately got my eye.

Glim

Gonorrhea

Eye

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

Glim

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

Eye

An opening in a needle.

Glim

To brand on the hand.

Eye

The aperture of a camera.

Glim

To illuminate.

Eye

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

Glim

To see; to observe.

Eye

A circular marking on a peacock's feather.

Glim

Brightness; splendor.

Eye

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

Glim

A light or candle.

Eye

A photosensitive device, such as a photoelectric cell.

Eye

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

Eye

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

Eye

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

Eye

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

Eye

(Informal)A detective, especially a private investigator.

Eye

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

Eye

To look at:eyed the passing crowd with indifference.

Eye

To watch closely:eyed the shark's movements.

Eye

To supply with an eye.

Eye

An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).
Bright lights really hurt my eyes.

Eye

The visual sense.
The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.

Eye

The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.

Eye

Attention, notice.
That dress caught her eye.

Eye

The ability to notice what others might miss.
He has an eye for talent.

Eye

A meaningful stare or look.
She was giving him the eye at the bar.
When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.

Eye

A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.

Eye

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

Eye

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

Eye

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

Eye

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

Eye

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

Eye

The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.

Eye

A reproductive bud in a potato.

Eye

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

Eye

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.

Eye

That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.

Eye

Tinge; shade of colour.

Eye

One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.

Eye

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

Eye

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

Eye

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

Eye

View or opinion.
This victory will make us great in the eyes of the world.

Eye

(transitive) To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.
They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.

Eye

To appear; to look.

Eye

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

Eye

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

Eye

A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.

Eye

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.

Eye

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.

Eye

The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion.
In my eye, she is the sweetest lady that I looked on.

Eye

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.
We shell express our duty in his eye.
Her shell your hear disproved to her eyes.

Eye

Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard.
Booksellers . . . have an eye to their own advantage.

Eye

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

Eye

That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts.

Eye

Tinge; shade of color.
Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.

Eye

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.
Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trialTo my proportioned strength.

Eye

To appear; to look.
My becomings kill me, when they do notEye well to you.

Eye

The organ of sight

Eye

Good discernment (either with the eyes or as if with the eyes);
She has an eye for fresh talent
He has an artist's eye

Eye

Attention to what is seen;
He tried to catch her eye

Eye

An area that is approximately central within some larger region;
It is in the center of town
They ran forward into the heart of the struggle
They were in the eye of the storm

Eye

A small hole or loop (as in a needle);
The thread wouldn't go through the eye

Eye

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