cat's eye

or cat's-eye

[ kats-ahy ]

/ ˈkætsˌaɪ /

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noun, plural cat's eyes, cat's-eyes.

any of certain gems having a chatoyant luster, especially chrysoberyl.

a playing marble marked with eyelike concentric circles.

cat eye.

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Origin of cat's eye

First recorded in 1545–55

Words nearby cat's eye

cat's cradle, cat-scratch disease, cat-scratch fever, cat's cry syndrome, cat's-ear, cat's eye, cat's-foot, Catskill Mountains, catskinner, catslide, cat's meow

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How to use cat's eye in a sentence

We did a movie down in Durango — Great Scout and Cat House Thursday.
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“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
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The numbers reinforce another article in the Post, in which cops confessed to “turning a blind eye” to minor crimes.
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“Personal hotspots can get speeds of up to 60 Mb/s down, whereas hotel Wi-Fi can be as slow as 1.5 Mb/s,” Sesar said.
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This attack, coming just days after the PlayStation DDoS, was certainly an eye-opener.
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But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.
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As his eye became accustomed to the gloom, David Arden saw traces of gilding on the walls.
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As small letters weary the eye most, so also the smallest affairs disturb us most.
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Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.
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A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.
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British Dictionary definitions for cat's eye (1 of 2)

cat's-eye

noun

any of a group of gemstones, esp a greenish-yellow variety of chrysoberyl, that reflect a streak of light when cut in a rounded unfaceted shape

Also called: ataata a grazing marine gastropod, Turbo smaragdus, of New Zealand waters

British Dictionary definitions for cat's eye (2 of 2)

Catseye

/ (ˈkætsˌaɪ) /

noun

trademark British a glass reflector set into a small fixture, placed at intervals along roads to indicate traffic lanes at night

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