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noun
- an optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it
- An instrument that uses a shaped prism or mirrors to cause an apparent image of external objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, so that the outlines may be conveniently traced.
noun
- An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen.
- an optical device for projecting a beam of light
- an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen
- Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.
- (mathematics) An operator that forms a projection.
- That which projects or launches something.
- (psychology) One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.
noun
- an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies
- Any optical device used to view photographic slides.
- a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
- (mining, historical) The manager of a colliery, who directs its workings and ventilation.
- Someone who watches television.
- (computing) A program that displays the contents of a file.
- (now historical) An appointed inspector or examiner:
- Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.
noun
- A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
- (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
- A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
- Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
- a magnifier of images of distant objects
verb
- (ambitransitive, mathematics, of a series) To collapse, via cancellation.
- (ambitransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
- (ambitransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
- (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
- make smaller or shorter
- crush together or collapse
noun
- optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest
- someone who comes upon something after searching
- someone who is the first to observe something
- One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
- A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
- (UK, historical) A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
noun
- An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron
- A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
- A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other
- a light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat
noun
- An exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass.
- an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass
- A titillating or pornographic display viewed through a small slot, generally equipped with a timer to automatically close the slot when payment has expired.
- a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth
noun
- a small refracting telescope
- a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking
- a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
- the quantity a glass will hold
- a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- glassware collectively
- (countable, uncountable, by extension) Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
- A mirror.
- (countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
- (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
- A barometer.
- (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
- (metonymic) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- A magnifying glass or loupe.
- (uncountable, photography, informal) Lenses, considered collectively.
- (uncountable) Glassware.
- A telescope.
- (usually uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
- (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
verb
- put in a glass container
- furnish with glass
- scan (game in the forest) with binoculars
- become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance
- enclose with glass
- (transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- (transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
- (transitive, science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- (transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- (intransitive) To become glassy.
- (transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- (transitive) To make glassy.
- (transitive) Clipping of fibreglass (“to fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass)”).
- (transitive) To enclose in glass.
noun
- A device that measures the optical density of a material; especially to test film and print quality.
- A device that measures the specific gravity of a substance; a densimeter.
- a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity
- a measuring instrument for determining optical or photographic density
adj
- Able to see extremely minute objects.
- Very small; minute
- Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal
- So small that it can only be seen with the aid of a microscope.
- (figurative) Carried out with great attention to detail.
- of or relating to or used in microscopy
- so small as to be invisible without a microscope
- visible under a microscope; using a microscope
- extremely precise with great attention to details
noun
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
- a place where planes take off and land
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- extensive tract of level open land
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- a particular environment or walk of life
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a branch of knowledge
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
- (baseball) The outfield.
- (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- (vexillology) The background of the flag.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- (numismatics) The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- The extent of a given perception.
- (heraldry) The background of the shield.
- (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
- (algebra) A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring.
- A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
- (metonymic) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
verb
- select (a team or individual player) for a game
- play as a fielder
- catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
- answer adequately or successfully
- (transitive) To answer; to address.
- (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
- (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.
- (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
noun
- A small aperture.
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.
- The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
- The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
- Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
- Ventriloquism.
- In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
- A slit in the seam of a garment.
- A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
- An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
- An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
- Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate
- a hole for the escape of gas or air
- a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket)
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
- (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
- To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
- To sell; to vend.
- (intransitive, video games, slang) To use a vent in the video game Among Us. [with to ‘to go (somewhere)’]
- (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
- (transitive) To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
- (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
- (transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
- give expression or utterance to
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
noun
- optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
- a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
- (crystallography) A crystal in which the faces are parallel to the vertical axis.
- (construction) A cutting (“open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through”) or an embankment shaped like a prism (sense 1) or a number of prisms, such that its volume can be easily calculated.
- An object having the shape of a geometrical prism (sense 1).
- (by extension, surveying) A retroreflector (“device which reflects light back to its source with minimal scattering”) which is usually attached to a surveying pole as a target for a total station which emits a light beam at the device and calculates how long it takes to be reflected back in order to measure distance.
- (optics) A transparent block in the shape of a prism (sense 1), typically with triangular ends, used to reflect or refract light.
- (figurative) A perspective that colours one's perception.
noun
- A small pointed object.
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
- (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
- The footprint of a hare.
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- (slang, vulgar) The penis.
- A feeling of remorse.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a male) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
- obscene terms for penis
- the act of puncturing with a small point
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
verb
- (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
- (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
- (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
- To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
- (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
- (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
- (transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
- To aim at a point or mark.
- (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
- (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
- (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
- To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
- cause a stinging pain
- stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
- to stick up
- cause a prickling sensation
- to cause a sharp emotional pain
- make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn
- deliver a sting to
noun
- A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light.
- A laser printer.
- (uncountable, medicine) Ellipsis of laser hair removal.
- A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants.
- Such a plant.
- A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam.
- an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
verb
noun
- lens used to concentrate light on an object
- an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid
- an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge
- a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat
- (process engineering) A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or similar machine.
- (electronics, chiefly historical or in compound terms) A capacitor.
- (optics) A lens (or combination of lenses) designed to gather light and focus it onto a specimen or part of a mechanism.
- A dental instrument used to pack filling into a cavity in a tooth.
noun
- The light-related aspects of a device.
- (physics) The physics of light and vision: basic optical science.
- Technology that makes use of such physics: applied optical science; business lines making use of such technology.
- (figuratively) Perception, image, public relations, especially in politics.
- plural of optic
- the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light
- optical properties
noun
- an optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it
- An instrument that uses a shaped prism or mirrors to cause an apparent image of external objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, so that the outlines may be conveniently traced.
noun
- An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) onto a screen.
- an optical device for projecting a beam of light
- an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen
- Someone who devises or suggests a project; a proposer or planner of something.
- (mathematics) An operator that forms a projection.
- That which projects or launches something.
- (psychology) One who projects, or ascribes his/her own feelings to others.
noun
- an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies
- Any optical device used to view photographic slides.
- a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind)
- (mining, historical) The manager of a colliery, who directs its workings and ventilation.
- Someone who watches television.
- (computing) A program that displays the contents of a file.
- (now historical) An appointed inspector or examiner:
- Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or spectator.
noun
- A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
- (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
- A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
- Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
- a magnifier of images of distant objects
verb
- (ambitransitive, mathematics, of a series) To collapse, via cancellation.
- (ambitransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
- (ambitransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
- (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
- make smaller or shorter
- crush together or collapse
noun
- optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest
- someone who comes upon something after searching
- someone who is the first to observe something
- One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
- A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
- (UK, historical) A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
noun
- An optical device, typically embedded in a bijou, utilising a modified Stanhope lens for viewing microphotographs embedded in the device; invented by René Dagron
- A gig, buggy or light phaeton, typically with a high seat and closed back.
- A simple, one-piece microscope consisting of a cylinder of glass with each end curved outwards, one being more convex than the other
- a light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat
noun
- An exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass.
- an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass
- A titillating or pornographic display viewed through a small slot, generally equipped with a timer to automatically close the slot when payment has expired.
- a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth
noun
- a small refracting telescope
- a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking
- a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
- the quantity a glass will hold
- a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- glassware collectively
- (countable, uncountable, by extension) Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
- A mirror.
- (countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
- (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
- A barometer.
- (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
- (metonymic) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- A magnifying glass or loupe.
- (uncountable, photography, informal) Lenses, considered collectively.
- (uncountable) Glassware.
- A telescope.
- (usually uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
- (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
verb
- put in a glass container
- furnish with glass
- scan (game in the forest) with binoculars
- become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance
- enclose with glass
- (transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- (transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
- (transitive, science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- (transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- (intransitive) To become glassy.
- (transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- (transitive) To make glassy.
- (transitive) Clipping of fibreglass (“to fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass)”).
- (transitive) To enclose in glass.
noun
- A device that measures the optical density of a material; especially to test film and print quality.
- A device that measures the specific gravity of a substance; a densimeter.
- a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity
- a measuring instrument for determining optical or photographic density
noun
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
- a place where planes take off and land
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- extensive tract of level open land
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- a particular environment or walk of life
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a branch of knowledge
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
- (baseball) The outfield.
- (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- (vexillology) The background of the flag.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- (numismatics) The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- The extent of a given perception.
- (heraldry) The background of the shield.
- (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
- (algebra) A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring.
- A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
- (metonymic) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
verb
- select (a team or individual player) for a game
- play as a fielder
- catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
- answer adequately or successfully
- (transitive) To answer; to address.
- (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
- (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.
- (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
noun
- A small aperture.
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of ventilation or ventilator.
- The excretory opening of lower orders of vertebrates; cloaca.
- The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge.
- Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
- Ventriloquism.
- In steam boilers, a sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
- A slit in the seam of a garment.
- A rant; a long session of expressing verbal frustration.
- An opening in a volcano from which lava or gas flows.
- An opening through which gases, especially air, can pass.
- Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
- external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate
- a hole for the escape of gas or air
- a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket)
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.
- (transitive) To allow to escape through a vent.
- To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
- To sell; to vend.
- (intransitive, video games, slang) To use a vent in the video game Among Us. [with to ‘to go (somewhere)’]
- (intransitive) To allow gases to escape.
- (transitive) To allow gases to escape from (a sealed space, container, etc.).
- (medicine, colloquial) To ventilate; to use a ventilator; to use ventilation.
- (transitive) To determine the sex of (a chick) by opening up the anal vent or cloaca.
- give expression or utterance to
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
noun
- optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
- a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
- (crystallography) A crystal in which the faces are parallel to the vertical axis.
- (construction) A cutting (“open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through”) or an embankment shaped like a prism (sense 1) or a number of prisms, such that its volume can be easily calculated.
- An object having the shape of a geometrical prism (sense 1).
- (by extension, surveying) A retroreflector (“device which reflects light back to its source with minimal scattering”) which is usually attached to a surveying pole as a target for a total station which emits a light beam at the device and calculates how long it takes to be reflected back in order to measure distance.
- (optics) A transparent block in the shape of a prism (sense 1), typically with triangular ends, used to reflect or refract light.
- (figurative) A perspective that colours one's perception.
noun
- A small pointed object.
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
- (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
- The footprint of a hare.
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- (slang, vulgar) The penis.
- A feeling of remorse.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a male) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
- obscene terms for penis
- the act of puncturing with a small point
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
verb
- (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
- (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
- (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
- To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
- (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
- (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
- (transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
- To aim at a point or mark.
- (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
- (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
- (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
- To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
- cause a stinging pain
- stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
- to stick up
- cause a prickling sensation
- to cause a sharp emotional pain
- make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn
- deliver a sting to
noun
- A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light.
- A laser printer.
- (uncountable, medicine) Ellipsis of laser hair removal.
- A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants.
- Such a plant.
- A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam.
- an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
verb
noun
- lens used to concentrate light on an object
- an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid
- an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge
- a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat
- (process engineering) A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or similar machine.
- (electronics, chiefly historical or in compound terms) A capacitor.
- (optics) A lens (or combination of lenses) designed to gather light and focus it onto a specimen or part of a mechanism.
- A dental instrument used to pack filling into a cavity in a tooth.
noun
- The light-related aspects of a device.
- (physics) The physics of light and vision: basic optical science.
- Technology that makes use of such physics: applied optical science; business lines making use of such technology.
- (figuratively) Perception, image, public relations, especially in politics.
- plural of optic
- the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light
- optical properties
adj
- Able to see extremely minute objects.
- Very small; minute
- Of, or relating to microscopes or microscopy; microscopal
- So small that it can only be seen with the aid of a microscope.
- (figurative) Carried out with great attention to detail.
- of or relating to or used in microscopy
- so small as to be invisible without a microscope
- visible under a microscope; using a microscope
- extremely precise with great attention to details