eye vs purple

eye

noun
  • Tinge; shade of colour. 

  • A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line. 

  • A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed. 

  • The dark spot on a black-eyed pea. 

  • A meaningful stare or look. 

  • One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese. 

  • The circle in the centre of a volute. 

  • The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm. 

  • An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones. 

  • The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour. 

  • A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator. 

  • A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye. 

  • The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted. 

  • The visual sense. 

  • A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, 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. 

  • The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e. 

  • The ability to notice what others might miss. 

  • The name of the Latin-script letter I. 

  • Attention, notice. 

  • An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light). 

  • View or opinion. 

  • A reproductive bud in a potato. 

  • A brood. 

  • The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower. 

  • That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty. 

verb
  • To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible. 

  • To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes). 

  • To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something). (poetic) 

  • To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something). 

purple

noun
  • Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red. 

  • Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis). 

  • Purpura. 

  • The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana. 

  • Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk. 

  • Earcockle, a disease of wheat. 

  • A cardinalate. 

  • A color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta. 

  • Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity. 

  • Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings. 

verb
  • To clothe in purple. 

  • To dye purple. 

  • To turn purple in colour. 

adj
  • Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session. 

  • Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose. 

  • Mixed between social democrats and liberals. 

  • Imperial; regal. 

  • Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support. 

  • Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue. 

  • Blood-red; bloody. 

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