Le mot anglais du jour

eye

œil

Définitions

anglais > français
eye
1. n. (Anatomie) (Météorologie) Œil mais aussi œil d'une pomme de terre, d'un cyclone.
2. n. Regard.
Son regard, depuis longtemps déshabitué de tout objet gracieux, tomba sur eux quand elle s'éveilla. Elle parut ravie et les ramassa avec empressement.
3. n. Chas (d'une aiguille), œillet (d'un soulier).
4. n. Ocelle.
5. v. Regarder attentivement, observer attentivement.
6. v. Prêter ou porter attention à un possible danger.
7. v. Lorgner, convoiter. Dans certains contextes seulement.
anglais > anglais
eye
1. n. An organ through which animals see.
Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
2. n. The visual sense.
The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
3. n. The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.
4. n. Attention, notice.
That dress caught her eye.
5. n. The ability to notice what others might miss.
He has an eye for talent.
6. n. A meaningful stare or look.
She was giving him the eye at the bar. When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
7. n. A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
8. n. A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
9. n. A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
10. n. The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other such storm.
11. n. A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
12. n. The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
13. n. A reproductive bud in a potato.
14. n. (informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
15. n. 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
16. n. That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
17. n. Tinge; shade of colour.
18. n. One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
19. n. (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
20. n. (typography) The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
21. n. (game of go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
22. v. To observe carefully.
After eyeing the document for an hour she decided not to sign it.
They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
23. v. To view something narrowly, as a document or a phrase in a document.
24. v. To look at someone or something as if with the intent to do something with that person or thing.
25. v. (obsolete) To appear; to look.
26. n. A brood.
an eye of pheasants
français > anglais
œil
1. n-m. (anatomy) eye, organ that is sensitive to light, helping organisms to see
2. n-m. (plural œils) glyph, rendering of a single character
3. n-m. (plural œils) eye (of a needle)