eye

One of the two body parts in your face that you use to see.

• Close your eyes.
• She has brown eyes.
• Something got into my left eye.

Common phrases: left eye, blue eye, close one eye, human eye

The small hole in a needle that you put thread through.

• This needle has a tiny eye.
• She passed the thread through the eye of the needle.
• A larger eye makes the needle easier to thread.

How to use it: the eye of a needle (Push the thread through the eye of the needle.)

Common phrases: eye of a needle, needle eye

Your ability to see and judge how something looks.

• The colours are pleasing to the eye.
• These tiny marks are invisible to the naked eye.
• A trained eye can spot the difference immediately.

Similar words: sight, vision

Common phrases: to the eye, naked eye, trained eye

To look at someone or something carefully, with interest or suspicion.

• The dog eyed my sandwich.
• She eyed the stranger suspiciously.
• He was eyeing the cakes in the window.

Similar words: watch, look at, observe

Common phrases: eye someone suspiciously, eye something carefully

To think about choosing, buying, or trying to get something.

• She is eyeing a promotion.
• The company eyed several sites for its new factory.
• Are you eyeing that management job?

Similar words: consider

Common phrases: eye a promotion, eye a purchase, eye an opportunity