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(ay/aye)/eye/i/I

ay (ī)

Interjection

    • Used before me to express distress or regret.

aye also ay (ī)

Noun

    • An affirmative vote or voter: The ayes outnumber the nays on this issue.

Adverb

    • Yes; yea: voted aye on the appropriations bill.
    • Always; ever: pledged their love for aye.

eye (ī)

Noun

    • An organ of vision or of light sensitivity.
    • Either of a pair of hollow structures located in bony sockets of the skull, functioning together or independently, each having a lens capable of focusing incident light on an internal photosensitive retina from which nerve impulses are sent to the brain; the vertebrate organ of vision.
    • The faculty of seeing; vision.
    • The ability to make intellectual or aesthetic judgments: has a good eye for understated fashion.
    • A way of regarding something; a point of view: To my eye, the decorations are excellent.

i or I (ī)

Noun

    • The ninth letter of the modern English alphabet.
    • Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter i.

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