EYE


Meaning of EYE in English

n.

organ of sight

1) to blink; close, shut; open; roll; squint one's ~s

2) to drop, lower; lift, raise one's ~s

3) to rest; strain one's ~s

4) to lay, set one's ~s on smt. ('to see smt.')

5) to keep one's ~s open, peeled ( esp. AE ), skinned ( BE ) ('to be watchful')

6) the naked ~ (the meteor could be seen with the naked ~)

7) bulging; glassy ~s

8) ~s twinkle; twitch

9) a pair of ~s

10) in one's ~s (tears were in his ~s; fear could be seen in their ~s)

vision, sight

11) good, strong; weak ~s

12) an eagle ~ ('keen sight')

area around the ~s

13) (also fig .) a black ~ (to give smb. a black ~)

look, glance

14) to cast an ~ on smt.; to run one's ~ over smt.; to fix one's ~ on smt.

15) to take one's ~s off (they could not take their ~s off Hannah)

16) an anxious; critical; sharp, watchful, weather; suspicious ~

17) a jaundiced ~ ('an envious, hostile look')

18) (of one who flirts) bedroom ('seductive') ~s; a roving, wandering ~ (he has a roving ~)

19) curious, prying; piercing ~s

attention

interest

observation

20) to catch smb.'s ~

21) to open smb.'s ~s (to the truth)

22) to close, shut one's ~s (to the truth); to turn a blind ~ to smt. ('to let smt. pass as if unnoticed')

23) to keep an ~ on smt. ('to keep smt. under observation')

24) to keep an ~ out for smt. ('to watch for smt. attentively')

25) the public ~ (to be constantly in the public ~)

26) with an ~ to (with an ~ to public opinion)

judgment

viewpoint

27) a good, keen ~

28) an ~ for (she has a good ~ for distances)

29) to the trained ~

30) in smb.'s ~s (in the ~s of the law, he is innocent until proved guilty)

perception

appreciation

31) to open smb.'s ~s to smt.

32) an ~ for (an ~ for beauty; to have an ~ for a good bargain)

device that detects

33) an electric ~

detective

( colloq. )

34) a private ~

prosthesis for an ~

35) an artificial, glass ~

misc.

36) an ~ for an ~ ('an equivalent retaliation'); to feast one's ~s on smt. ('to look at smt. with great pleasure'); to give smb. the ~ ('to flirt with smb.') or ('to give smb. a visual signal'); to make ~s at smb. ('to look lovingly at smb.'); to see ~ to ~ with ('to agree with'); the mind's ~ ('the visual recollection of past events'); the evil ~ ('a look intended to inflict harm'); his ~ fell on a bargain ('he discovered a bargain'); under the teacher's watchful ~; without batting an ~ ( esp. AE ) ('while remaining calm'); easy on the ~s ('pretty'); more than meets the ~ ('more than is seen'); to look someone in the ~ ('to look at someone directly'); before one's ~s

The Bbi combinatory dictionary of English, a guide to word combinations.      Комбинаторный словарь английского языка Bbi. Руководство по словосочетаниям.