eye vs sergeant

eye

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • Tinge; shade of colour. 

  • 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). 

sergeant

noun
  • A fish, the cobia. 

  • A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign. 

  • A bailiff. 

  • The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police. 

  • UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Athyma; distinguished from the false sergeants. 

  • A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law. 

  • A servant in monastic offices. 

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