eye

noun

1. An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
2. The visual sense.
3. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
4. Attention, notice.
5. The ability to notice what others might miss.
6. A sexually or romantically suggestive one.
7. An angry, annoyed, or malicious one.
8. An evil one.
9. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
10. The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
11. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
12. A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a hook, pin, rope, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.
13. A burner on a kitchen stove, hob, or cooktop.
14. The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
15. The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
16. The hilum of a seed or bean, or the hilum plus any rings of color that surround it; for example, the dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
17. The circle in the centre of a volute.
18. A central area in a portion of a carcass being butchered into cuts of meat, such as a certain muscle partly surrounded by fat (for example, a longissimus dorsi); a cut that includes a portion of it.
19. A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
20. A reproductive bud in a potato.