lens

lens
01. The [lens] fell out of my new sunglasses, so I got my money back.
02. Nowadays, many people with poor eyesight can have their vision restored through corrective [lens] surgery using a laser beam.
03. I scratched the [lens] of my sunglasses when I was cleaning them.
04. You can now correct your eyesight with a laser procedure which changes the pressure on the [lens] in your eye.
05. You should put the wide-angle [lens] on your camera so that you can get everyone in the picture.
06. He wears sunglasses with mirror [lenses], so you can't see his eyes.
07. A naturalist dissected a salmon at Goldstream Park, and she took a [lens] out of its eye for us to look at. It was like a perfect little glass ball.
08. Ayn Rand wrote that words are a [lens] to focus one's mind.
09. In 1609, Galileo obtained some [lenses] and built a telescope.
10. Modern telescopes generally use mirrors rather than [lenses].
11. A housefly has big compound eyes, each of which has 4,000 tiny [lenses].
12. A horse focuses its eye by changing the angle of its head, not by changing the shape of the [lens] of the eye, as humans do.
13. The composition of the [lens] of a human eye is 65 percent water and 35 percent protein.
14. The [lens] of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.
15. Marco Polo reported seeing many pairs of eyeglasses worn by the Chinese as early as 1275, 500 years before [lens] making was possible in the West.
16. Leonardo da Vinci was the first to suggest using contact [lenses] to see, back in 1508.
17. Of all colors, gray [lenses] in sunglasses best protect the eyes against the sun's rays.
18. Neither fish nor insects have eyelids; their eyes are protected by a hardened [lens].

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  • lens — [lenz] n [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: lentil ; because of its shape] 1.) the part of a camera through which the light travels before it reaches the film ▪ a standard 50mm lens 2.) a piece of curved glass or plastic which makes things look… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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  • lens — [ lenz ] noun count * 1. ) a thin piece of curved glass or plastic that makes things seem smaller, bigger, or clearer: eyeglasses with thick lenses a ) a piece of equipment that is part of a camera: a camera with a telescopic lens 2. ) the part… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Lens —   [lãs], Stadt im Département Pas de Calais, im Kohlenrevier Nordwestfrankreichs, 38 m über dem Meeresspiegel, 35 000 Einwohner; Steinkohlenbergbau, Kokerei, Stahl und Konfektionsindustrie.   Geschichte:   Lens wurde im Ersten Weltkrieg stark… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • LENS — Graece φακῆ, tenuiorum et Philosophorum cibus, Cynicorum praesertim, olim fuit, cuius encomium vide apud Athen. l. 4. c. 18. Sed et edulio eius tantopere in sacris Esavus legitur gavisus, ut iure primogentiurae illud redimere profanus homo non… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • lens — [lenz] n. [L, lentil: from the resemblance to the shape of a lentil] 1. a) a piece of glass, or other transparent substance, with two curved surfaces, or one plane and one curved, regularly bringing together or spreading rays of light passing… …   English World dictionary

  • Lens [1] — Lens (lat.), 1) Linse; 2) (L. crystallĭna), Krystalllinse, s.u. Auge …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Lens [2] — Lens, s.u. Lenspumpen …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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