Speaking of the end of the flu season and visits to your doctor:
Isn’t it amazing what doctors can find out just by shining a light in your eyes to check your sight, and in your ears to make sure an infection isn’t impairing your hearing.
light -- something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
lite -- an informal, simplified spelling of light, used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products: lite beer.
eye -- the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
aye -- an affirmative vote or voter, especially in British Parliament, corresponding to yea in U.S. Congress.
I -- the nominative singular pronoun, used by a speaker in referring to himself or herself.
sight -- the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
site -- the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
cite -- to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the constitution in his defense.
ear -- the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them as impulses to the brain.
ear (corn) -- the part of a cereal plan, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.
hear -- to perceive by the ear: Didn’t you hear the doorbell?
here -- in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
All definitions were obtained from www.dictionary.com.
