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    [Noun]  | "eye" | \ ˈī \


    1: a specialized light-sensitive sensory structure of animals that in nearly all vertebrates, most arthropods, and some mollusks is the image-forming organ of sight; especially : the nearly spherical usually paired hollow organ of sight in vertebrates that is filled with a jellylike material, is lined with a photosensitive retina, and is lodged in a bony orbit in the skull

    2: all the visible structures within and surrounding the orbit and including eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows

    3: the faculty of seeing with eyes

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English, from Old English ēage; akin to Old High German ouga eye, Latin oculus, Greek ōps eye, face, Sanskrit akṣi eye;

    [Noun]  | "eye bank" 


    1: a storage place for human corneas from the newly dead for transplant to the eyes of those blind from corneal defects

    Origin: 1938 ;

    [Noun]  | "eye candy" 


    1: something superficially attractive to look at

    Origin: 1978 ;

    [Noun]  | "eye-catch*er" | \ ˈī-ˌka-chər \


    1: something that arrests the eye

    Origin: 1787 ;

    [Noun]  | "eye chart" 


    1: a chart read at a fixed distance for purposes of testing sight; especially : one with rows of letters or objects of decreasing size

    Origin: 1885 ;

    [Noun]  | "eye contact" 


    1: visual contact with another person's eyes

    Origin: 1942 ;

    [Noun]  | "eye lens" 


    1: the lens nearest the eye in an eyepiece

    Origin: 1713 ;

    [Verb]  | "eye" 


    1: to fix the eyes on : look at

    2: contemplate, consider

    3: to watch or study closely

    Origin: 15th century ;

    [Plural noun]  | "eye drops" | \ ˈī-ˌdräps \


    1: a medicated solution for the eyes that is applied in drops —usually singular and hyphenated when used before another noun

    Origin: 1762 ;

    [Noun]  | "eye" 


    1: a circular strip;


      * e.g., " ... push the drawstring through the metal eye and knot it on one end "



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    2: a state of being aware;


      * e.g., " ... this young actor has the eye of every director in Hollywood "



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    3: a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest;


      * e.g., " ... this wilderness area is at the eye of the controversy between conservation and development "



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    [Noun]  | "eye shadows" 


    1: as in creams, oils;


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    [Noun]  | "eye shadow" 


    1: as in cream, oil;


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    [Noun]  | "eye-catcher" 


    1: as in spot, sight;



    [Noun]  | "eye-catchers" 


    1: as in spots, sights;



    [Noun]  | "eye candy" 


    1: something attractive but lacking in substance;


      * e.g., " ... a fashionable portrait painter in his day, he is now regarded as a minor purveyor of eye candy "



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    [Noun]  | "eye view" 


    1: a way of looking at or thinking about something;


      * e.g., " ... from my eye view, it looks as if both of you are in the wrong "



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    [Verb]  | "eye" 


    1: to keep one's eyes on;


      * e.g., " ... a lot of his backyard bird watching was spent eyeing the squirrels as they depleted the bird feeder of seeds "



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    2: to make note of (something) through the use of one's eyes;


      * e.g., " ... I wondered who tracked dirt all over the floor until I eyed the muddy sneakers "



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    3: to give serious and careful thought to;


      * e.g., " ... we're eyeing the possibility of buying property there "



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    [Adjective]  | "eye-catching" 


    1: likely to attract attention;


      * e.g., " ... Brad needs an eye-catching slogan for his campaign for president of the student body "




    [Adjective]  | "eye-opening" 


    1: causing a strong emotional reaction because of unexpectedness;


      * e.g., " ... hunting for a first apartment in a big city is an eye-opening experience for young people "




    2: causing wonder or astonishment;


      * e.g., " ... that acclaimed magic act had a number of eye-opening moments "



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     [ "eye" ]

    1: a way stan twitter uses to say "i-" or "im-" used when youre speechless or shocked at something.

      * e.g.,  ... @skzstan: stray kids outdid your faves sorry @ army thats the tea! @army: eye 

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    1: The window to the soul.

      * e.g.,  ... as i peered into her eye i saw so much more. 

     [ "eye" ]

    1: n. The part of your face in which you see things out of. Below your eyebrows and above your nose. Your eye consists of eyelashes and may be any colour under the rainbow if you use contact lenses, which are like glasses only you don't wear dorky looking thingies on your face.

      * e.g.,  ... My eyes are pretty because they are green. 

     [ "eye" ]

    1: bad bitch

      * e.g.,  ... gotta keep an eye out for selener👁👄👁 

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    2: always cool and has a super style

     [ "eye" ]

    1: sleep, rest, bedtime from the slang; "shut-eye" ! eye just seems more "user friendly" and easier to say somehow. people can often (slowly) actually figure out it means sleep! (without an explanation)

      * e.g.,  ... i've got (the) insomnia, and almost NEVER get any eye ! 

     [ "eye to eye" ]

    1: agree

      * e.g.,  ... Now we're seeing eye to eye. 

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    1: If you're not an idiot, you'd know that "eye for an eye" means, if you fuck someone up, we'll fuck you up too. First coined by Hammurabi back in ancient Mesopotamia times, although I'm sure he didn't quite put it that way.

      * e.g.,  ... When John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln, then got killed in a barn in Virginia, that's an eye for an eye. 

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    1: being on the same level

      * e.g.,  ... Are you eye to eye with me you one-eyed, peg-legged, toothless, frech-whore midgit bitch? 

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    1: Colloquial, form of eye crap, the crusy and/or gooey jism that forms in the corner(s) of your eye(s) overnight, at least some times. Not often, but usually after a wild evening. Can be dangerous to rub upon awakeining, you can scratch your cornea. A close relative of mehmeh

      * e.g.,  ... I woke up with a serious case of eye-eye. I'm going to knit some mehmeh stockings and make some eye-eye cookies. 

     [ "An eye for an eye" ]

    1: This phrase can have one of 3 meanings the Metaphorical sense: meaning one aggressive or harmful action commited against a person is moraly equal to that person commiting an aggressive or harmful action towords against his or her aggressor. The other meaning is the Entirely Literal sense of the phrase: in which one person has there eye taken by an other and so then takes that persons eye as retribution. There is also the Half Metaphorical meaning: which is one action that is aggressive or harmful towords a person or a body of people makes it moraly acceptable to take that aggressors eye as retribution

      * e.g.,  ... "Thouse barbarians have raped all of the virgins of our village so we must go over to their all-male camp and rape them because that is the way of an Eye for an Eye" "Oww!! holy shit!! that guy just took my eye, what the hell!! I'm gonna take his eye because that's fair, its an eye for an eye!" "I can't belive you just stole my last rolo Skippy!, that's it I'm taking your eye, *struggle* Bloody hold still!! *gauge* *pop* There we go. An eye for an eye skippy." 

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