What is the difference between eye and white?

As nouns the difference between eye and white

is that eye is an organ that is sensitive to light, which it converts to electrical signals passed to the brain, by which means animals see while white is the color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.

As verbs the difference between eye and white

is that eye is to observe carefully while white is to make white; to whiten; to bleach.

As a adjective white is

bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.

eye

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) , Tocharian A (m)). Related to ogle.

Noun

An organ through which animals see.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)

, title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}

Bright lights really hurt my eyes .

The visual sense.

Attention, notice.

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The ability to notice what others might miss.

* , chapter=19

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}

A meaningful stare or look.

A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.

* 2003 , (Erik Larson), , Random House, ISBN 0609608444, page 199

Far more annoying were the letters from parents of missing daughters and the private detectives who had begun showing up at his door. Independently of each other, the Cigrand and Conner families had hired “eyes ” to search for their missing daughters.

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

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

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

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

The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.

A reproductive bud in a potato.

(informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.

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 through a millstone.

That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)

the very eye of that proverb

* (rfdate) (John Milton)

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts

Tinge; shade of colour.

* (rfdate) (Boyle)

Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.

One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.

The circle in the centre of a volute.

Synonyms

* (loop of metal) eyelet * (ability to notice what others might miss) perceptiveness * See also

Hyponyms

ocellus

Derived terms

* all eyes * an eye for an eye * believe one's eyes * bird's-eye view * black eye * black-eyed * blue-eyed * brown-eyed * bull's-eye * cat's eye * deadeye * electric eye * evil eye * eye lever * eye of the beholder * eye patch * eye pencil * eye shadow * eye socket * eyestrain * eye tooth * eye up * eye wash * eyeball * eyebrow pencil * eyebrow * eye-catching * -eyed * eyeful * eyeglass * eyelash * eyeless * eyelet * eyelid * eyeliner * eyely * eye-opener * eyepiece * eyes down * eyesight * eyesore * eyewitness * fish-eye lens * for your eyes only * goo-goo eyes * green-eyed * grey-eyed * hand-eye co-ordination * have eyes for * have one's eye on * have one's eye out * hook and eye * keep an eye on * keep an eye out * keep one's eye on the ball * keep one's eyes peeled * lazy eye * magic eye * make eyes at * mind's eye * * one in the eye for * oxeye * private eye * public eye * puppy-dog eyes * redeye * see eye to eye * seeing-eye dog * shut-eye * sight for sore eyes * stink eye * take one's eye off the ball

Verb

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.

* 1859 , Fraser's Magazine (volume 60, page 671)

Each downcast monk in silence takes / His place a newmade grave around, / Each one his brother sadly eying .

To view something narrowly, as a document or a phrase in a document.

To look at someone or something as if with the intent to do something with that person or thing.

(obsolete) To appear; to look.

* Shakespeare

My becomings kill me, when they do not eye well to you.

Derived terms

* eye up

Etymology 2

Probably from a nye'' changing to ''an eye .

Noun

(en noun)

A brood.

an eye of pheasants

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white

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(er)

Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.

* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)

white as the whitest lily on a stream.

* 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:

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773;, d?r? adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.

Of the Caucasian race.

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Designated for use by Caucasians.

Relatively light or pale in colour.

Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.

* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! / They come! they come!"

(label) Containing cream, milk or creamer.

The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.

Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.

* :

NOw rydeth Galahalt yet withouten shelde / and so rode four dayes without ony aduenture / And at the fourth day after euensonge / he came to a whyte Abbay / and there was he receyued with grete reuerence / and ledde vnto a chambre / and there was he vnarmed / And thenne was he ware of knyghtes of the table round

Honourable, fair; decent.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

White as thy fame, and as thy honour clear.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

No whiter page than Addison's remains.

* 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin, 2010, p.12:

*:‘We've only met twice and you've been more than white to me both times.’

Lacking coloration from ultraviolet light.

Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head / So old and white as this.

(label) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.

* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life.

(label) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.

* (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)

Come forth, my white spouse.

* (1586-c.1639)

I am his white boy, and will not be gulled.

(label) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.

* 1932 , (Duff Cooper), Talleyrand , Folio Society, 2010, p.163:

Aimée de Coigny had always adopted with enthusiasm the political views of her ruling lover and she had thus already held nearly every shade of opinion from red republicanism to white reaction.

Antonyms

* (bright and colourless) black, nonwhite, unwhite * (of coffee) black * (lacking coloration) tanned

Synonyms

* (lacking coloration) fair, pale

Noun

(en noun)

The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.

A Caucasian person.

The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).

(anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.

Any butterfly of the Pieris genus.

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.

(countable, and, uncountable) wine.

* {{quote-song

, year = 1977 , title = (Scenes from an Italian Restaurant) , composer = (Billy Joel) , album = , passage = A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / In our Italian Restaurant. }}

(slang) Street name for cocaine.

(archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.

* Shakespeare

'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white .

A white pigment.

Venice white

Derived terms

(terms derived from "white") * black-and-white * egg white * flake white * flat white * great white shark * honorary white * Large White * non-white * off-white,offwhite * snow-white * Snow White * titanium white * white heat * white admiral * white alkali * white area * white as a sheet * white as driven snow * white ash * white as snow * White Australia Policy * white bacon * white bear * white belt * white blood cell * white book * white bread * white bryony * white cell * white chip * white Chirstmas * white chocolate * white cloud * white clover * white coal * white corpuscle * white crappie * white currant * white dwarf * white elephant * White Ensign * white feather * white fish * white flag * white flight * white flour * white fox * white frost * white gasoline * white gold * white goods * white gum * white hole * white hope * white horse * White House * white hunter * white knight * white lady * white lead * white leather * white lie * white light * white lightning * white lime * white line * white list * white magic * white man * white marlin * white matter * white meat * white metal * white mica * white mustard * white night * white noise * white out * white pages * white pepper * white pointer * white power * white pudding * white radish * white rice * white room * white rust * white sale * white sapphire * White Sea * white sheep * white-shoe * white space * white spirit * white stick * white sugar * white tie * white vitriol * white water * white wedding * white witch * whitebait * whitebeam * whiteboard * white-bread * white-breasted sea eagle * whitecap * whitecoat * white-collar * white-collar crime * white-collar worker * white-crowned sparrow * whitecurrant * whitedamp * white-eye * whiteface * white-faced * white-faced heron * whitefly * white-footed mouse * white-glove building * white-haired * white-headed * white-hot * white-knuckle * white-kuckle ride * white-livered * whitely * whiten * whiteness * white-out * whiter than white * whites * white-shoe firm * white-sided dolphin * whitesmith * white-tablecloth restaurant * whitethroat * white-tie * whitewall * whitewall tire * whitewash * whitewater rafting * whitish

Verb

(whit)

To make white; to whiten; to bleach.

Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of uncleanness. — Matthew xxiii. 27.

So as no fuller on earth can white them. — Mark ix. 3.

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