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.
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.
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).
A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
A knitting needle.
Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
A telecommunication wire or cable.
An electric telegraph; a telegram.
A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
A fence made of usually barbed wire.
A deadline or critical endpoint.
A metal conductor that carries electricity.
A finish line of a racetrack.
A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
To string on a wire.
To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
To snare by means of a wire or wires.
To install eavesdropping equipment.
To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
To equip with wires for use with electricity.