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Eked vs Eyed - What's the difference?

eked | eyed |

As a noun eked

is .

As an adjective eyed is

having eyes.

As a verb eyed is

(eye).

eked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (eke)

    • Anagrams

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    eke

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (ek)
  • To increase; to add to, augment, lengthen.
  • *
    • Here endlesse penance for one fault I pay, / But that redoubled crime with vengeance new / Thou biddest me to eeke ?
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date=2012-07-11 , year= , first= , last= , author=Ben Perry , authorlink= , title=Branson's spaceship steals the spotlight at airshow , site=Yahoo News citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-07-12 , passage=British tycoon Richard Branson stole the show here Wednesday, announcing that he and his family would be on Virgin Galactic's first trip into space, as Airbus and Boeing eked out more plane orders. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An addition.
  • * Geddes
    • Clumsy ekes that may well be spared.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (beekeeping, archaic) A very small addition to the bottom of a beehive, often merely of a few bands of straw, on which the hive is raised temporarily.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Also.
  • * 1663 ,
    • 'Tis false: for Arthur wore in hall / Round-table like a farthingal, / On which, with shirt pull'd out behind, / And eke before, his good knights dined.
  • * 1782 ,
    • 'John Gilpin was a citizen / of credit and renown / A train-band captain eke was he / of famous London town.'

    See also

    * eke out

    Anagrams

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    eyed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having eyes.
  • Having eye-like spots.
    • The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.
  • (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.
  • * 1901 November 7, Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles C. Davenport, “Heredity of Eye-color in Man”, in Science , New Series, MacMillan, Volume 26, Number 670, page 592:
    • Gray and blue-eyed' parents will tend to have either gray-'''eyed''' children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-'''eyed''' children according as the gray-' eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous.

    Derived terms

    * black-eyed bean * black-eyed Susan * blue-eyed boy * boss-eyed * bug-eyed * cock-eyed * cross-eyed * doe-eyed * dewy-eyed * eagle-eyed * glassy-eyed * goggle-eyed * googly-eyed * hawk-eyed * open-eyed * oxeyed * pie-eyed * pop-eyed * wall-eyed * wide-eyed

    Verb

    (head)
  • (eye)

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