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The eye is an organ that receives light and visual images. Non-image forming eyes (also called direction eyes) are found among worms, mollusks, cnidarians, echinoderms, and other invertebrates.
(US also eying) uk / ˈaɪ.ɪŋ / us / ˈaɪ.ɪŋ / Add to word list. present participle of eye. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Using the eyes. accommodate. accommodation. all eyes are on someone/something idiom. astigmatic. avert. beholder. cast. chart. discern. fix. gape. goggle. have a butcher's idiom. lock.
n. 1. An organ of vision or of light sensitivity. 2. a. 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. b.
The earliest known use of the noun eyeing is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for eyeing is from 1550, in the writing of William Salesbury, translator and humanist scholar. eyeing is formed within English, by derivation.
Both spellings of “eying” and “eyeing” are correct and acceptable to use in English writing. Both words indicate the same thing: that you are actively looking at someone or something. They denote a closer observance than normal with a sentiment of scrutiny.
Synonyms for EYEING: watching, observing, staring, looking, following, guarding, gazing, seeing; Antonyms of EYEING: winking, blinking, ignoring, neglecting, disregarding, passing over, missing, overlooking
verb. Present participle of eye. Wiktionary. Eyeing Sentence Examples. I've noticed the guys eyeing you - glasses and all. He picked up the coffee cup and leaned back in his chair, eyeing her thoughtfully. Jade straightened, eyeing the dark figure with bright eyes.
A1. one of the two organs in your face that are used for seeing: He has no sight in his left eye. She's got beautiful green eyes. He closed his eyes and went to sleep. PeopleImages/DigitalVision/GettyImages. Fewer examples. He had a nasty cut above the eye. You'll poke someone in the eye with that umbrella if you're not careful!
eyeing. eye /aɪ/ n., v., eyed, ey•ing or eye•ing. in animals with backbones, one of a pair of rounded bodies in the skull with muscles and nerves. vision: The marksman had a sharp eye. [ usually: singular] the power of seeing and appreciating something through vision: an artistic eye.
to look at someone or something carefully, especially because you want something or you are suspicious of something to eye someone suspiciously He couldn't help eyeing the cakes hungrily. They eyed us with alarm.
