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An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).
Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
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The visual sense.
The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
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The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
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Attention, notice.
That dress caught her eye.
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The ability to notice what others might miss.
He has an eye for talent.
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A meaningful stare or look.
She was giving him the eye at the bar.
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A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
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A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
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The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
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A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
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The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
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A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
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The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
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A reproductive bud in a potato.
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The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
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A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc. — e.g. at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; through a crank; at the end of a rope; or through a millstone.
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That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
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Tinge; shade of colour.
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One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
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The circle in the centre of a volute.
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The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
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(game of go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
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(usually plural) View or opinion.
This victory will make us great in the eyes of the world.
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同義詞 :
eyelet;
perceptiveness;