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- (optics) Any device that or spreads out or scatters light, making the light appear softer.
- (cooking) A cooking item that can be placed above a stove heating element or burner to separate the cooking utensil from the heat source.
- (sewage treatment) An aerating device consisting of a membrane with fine pores, through which air is blown to generate small bubbles.
- Any person or thing that diffuses.
- (automotive) A shaped section of a car's underbody which improves the car's aerodynamic properties.
- (thermodynamics) A mechanical device that is designed to control the characteristics of a fluid at the entrance to a thermodynamic open system.
- A hairdryer attachment that diffuses the flow of air.
- A device designed to diffuse a scent efficiently.
- optical device that distributes the light of a lamp evenly
- baffle that distributes sound waves evenly
adj
noun
- a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
- (optics) An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
- (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
- biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina
- electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
- (by extension, figuratively) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
- (hydrology) A convex layer of fresh groundwater that floats above the denser saltwater, usually found on small coral or limestone islands and atolls.
- (anatomy) The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
- (earth science) A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
- (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.
- (programming) A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
- (geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
- A device which focuses or defocuses other waves or radiation, such as microwave radiation, electron beams, sound waves (acoustic lenses), or explosions (explosive lenses).
verb
noun
- an appearance of reflected light
- a flash of light (especially reflected light)
- A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
- A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
- (countable) An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
- An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
verb
- to shine with faint or brief light
- shine brightly, like a star or a light
- be shiny, as if wet
- To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
- (transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
- (figuratively) To be strongly but briefly apparent.
noun
- an appearance of reflected light
- light from nonthermal sources
- a steady even light without flames
- the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
- the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
- a feeling of considerable warmth
- an alert and refreshed state
- A state of heat being emitted by a person or an animal's body.
- A state of brightness or warmth of colour; specifically, a reddish colour on a person's face indicating health or youth; a flush.
- A state of light being emitted by something (for example, a bioluminescent animal or fungus, or a mineral) which is not hot; luminescence.
- A state of heat and light being emitted by a hot object.
- A condition of being passionate or having warm feelings; an ardour.
verb
- shine intensely, as if with heat
- emit a steady even light without flames
- be exuberant or high-spirited
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
- To be very hot; also, to be on fire; to burn.
- (figurative, Internet slang, alt-right) To expose (someone) to the authorities.
- To emit heat and light without a flame.
- Of a person: to display intense emotion.
- Of a fire: to emit heat and light.
- To emit light brightly and steadily as if heated to a high temperature; to shine.
- (intransitive, obsolete except UK, dialectal) To look intently; to stare.
- Of a person's body or a part of it: to feel hot and often to flush (“become suffused with a reddish colour”) as well, due to an emotional response, exertion, etc.
- (chiefly US, Internet slang) To be involved in an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
- Of a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour.
- (chiefly US, Internet slang, alt-right) To create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
adj
- Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent.
- Of a person, their mind, etc.: able to think and understand clearly; not confused; clear, sharp.
- Of music or some other sound: not discordant or harsh; clear and pure-sounding.
- Easily understood; clear.
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
noun
- an optical device for projecting a beam of light
- an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen
- An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) 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.
adj
- reflecting light
- superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense
- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers
- (figurative) Attention-grabbing and superficially attractive.
- Having a smooth, silklike, reflective (shiny) surface.
noun
adj
noun
verb
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- the visual property of something that shines with reflected light
- a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain
- a quality that outshines the usual
- An ornamental light providing luster, especially a chandelier.
- A piece of glass added to a light (especially a chandelier) to increase its luster.
- The ability or condition of shining with reflected light; sheen, gleam, gloss, sparkle, shine, etc.
- A substance that imparts luster to a surface, such as polish, gloss, plumbago, glaze, etc.
- (figurative) Polish, social refinement.
- (literary) Any shining body or thing.
- (figurative) Shining light from within, luminosity, brightness, shine.
- The layer of an object that imparts luster, chiefly with regard to ceramics.
- Clipping of lusterware: highly lustrous ceramics.
- (geology) The way in which the surface of any particular type of mineral reflects light differently from other minerals, which is helpful in telling minerals apart.
- A kind of lustrous fabric with a wool weft and cotton, linen, or silk warp, chiefly used for women's dresses.
- (figurative) Shining beauty, splendor, attractiveness or attraction.
- Alternative form of lustrum: A five-year period, especially (historical) in Roman contexts.
- (figurative) Shining fame, renown, glory.
verb
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verb
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adj
verb
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- Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface.
- A safety reflector.
- (cellular automata) A pattern which can change the direction and/or offset of an oncoming spaceship without being destroyed.
- A reflecting telescope.
- A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle or bicycle that reflects the headlights of other vehicles.
- One who reflects on something; one who thinks or considers at length.
- Something that is reflective (indicative) of something else.
- optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece
- device that reflects radiation
noun
- A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
- (figuratively) An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
- A mirror carp.
- (computing, Internet) A website or server that contains replicated data from another site.
- (historical) A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.
- a faithful depiction or reflection
- polished surface that forms images by reflecting light
verb
- (transitive) To act as a reflection of, either by being identical to, or by being identical but reversed.
- (transitive) To reflect, as in a mirror.
- (transitive) Of an event, activity, behavior, to be identical to; to be a copy of; to imitate closely.
- (transitive, computing, Internet) To create something identical to (a website, etc.).
- reflect as if in a mirror
- reflect or resemble
noun
- A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light.
- A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam.
- A laser printer.
- (uncountable, medicine) Ellipsis of laser hair removal.
- A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants.
- Such a plant.
- an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
verb
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
- (optics) A single-faceted reflector.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional object comprising one vertex and one (not necessarily straight) edge both of whose ends are that vertex.
- (geometry) A two-dimensional object comprising one vertex, one edge both of whose ends are that vertex, and one face filling in the hollow formed by that edge.
noun
- an artificial source of visible illumination
- a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs
- A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
- A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
- A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
verb
noun
- (physics) The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
- (physics, weather) Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
- The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
- (marketing) The gradual spread and adoption of goods or services.
- (physics) The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
- The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
- The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.
- the property of being diffused or dispersed
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration
- the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another
noun
- the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
- incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
- the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation
- (countable) An opaque area.
- (optics, countable) A measure of relative impenetrability to electromagnetic radiation such as light.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being inaccessible to understanding.
adj
noun
- a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions
- (zoology, anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
- (biochemistry) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
- (poetic) Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
noun
- (optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
- (informal, chemistry, uncountable) Caustic soda.
- (mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
- Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
- any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue
- the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object
adj
verb
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
- distribute loosely
adj
adj
- capable of physically reflecting light or sound
- devoted to matters of the mind
- deeply or seriously thoughtful
- (grammar) Reciprocal.
- (programming) Involving reflection.
- That reflects, or redirects back to the source.
- Pondering, especially thinking back on the past.
- (programming) By means of reflection.
- That reveals or shows; revealing; indicative of.
noun
- (photography, television) An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
- (figurative) Anything that provides similar protection.
- (figurative) Anything that provides similar overarching coverage of a range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
- The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
- A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
- (ice hockey) A strategy in which five players in the offensive zone form an umbrella-shaped formation around the opposition's goal net.
- having the function of uniting a group of similar things
- a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy
- a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets
verb
adj
noun
- the craft of providing artificial light
- the act of setting something on fire
- having abundant light or illumination
- apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
- The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
- The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
verb
noun
- Brightness from reflected light.
- Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
- Brightness from a source of light.
- (slang) Moonshine; an illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
- (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
- (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
- Shoeshine.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
- Sunshine (typically in contrast with rain).
- the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
verb
- (intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
- (intransitive, copulative) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.
- (intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be smooth and shiny by rubbing; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
- (intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.
- be distinguished or eminent
- emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
- be clear and obvious
- be shiny, as if wet
- throw or flash the light of (a lamp)
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- make (a surface) shine
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
- be bright by reflecting or casting light
noun
- (optics) A transparent block in the shape of a prism (sense 1), typically with triangular ends, used to reflect or refract light.
- (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.
- (figurative) A perspective that colours one's perception.
- a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
- optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
noun
- (optics) Any device that or spreads out or scatters light, making the light appear softer.
- (cooking) A cooking item that can be placed above a stove heating element or burner to separate the cooking utensil from the heat source.
- (sewage treatment) An aerating device consisting of a membrane with fine pores, through which air is blown to generate small bubbles.
- Any person or thing that diffuses.
- (automotive) A shaped section of a car's underbody which improves the car's aerodynamic properties.
- (thermodynamics) A mechanical device that is designed to control the characteristics of a fluid at the entrance to a thermodynamic open system.
- A hairdryer attachment that diffuses the flow of air.
- A device designed to diffuse a scent efficiently.
- optical device that distributes the light of a lamp evenly
- baffle that distributes sound waves evenly
adj
noun
- a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
- (optics) An object, usually made of glass, that focuses or defocuses the light that passes through it.
- (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood
- biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focus light on the retina
- electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons
- (by extension, figuratively) A way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something.
- (hydrology) A convex layer of fresh groundwater that floats above the denser saltwater, usually found on small coral or limestone islands and atolls.
- (anatomy) The transparent crystalline structure in the eye.
- (earth science) A body of rock, ice, or water shaped like a convex lens.
- (biology) A genus of the legume family; its bean.
- (programming) A construct used in statically-typed functional programming languages to access nested data structures.
- (geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.
- A device which focuses or defocuses other waves or radiation, such as microwave radiation, electron beams, sound waves (acoustic lenses), or explosions (explosive lenses).
verb
noun
- an appearance of reflected light
- a flash of light (especially reflected light)
- A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
- A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
- (countable) An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
- An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
verb
- to shine with faint or brief light
- shine brightly, like a star or a light
- be shiny, as if wet
- To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
- (transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
- (figuratively) To be strongly but briefly apparent.
noun
- an appearance of reflected light
- light from nonthermal sources
- a steady even light without flames
- the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
- the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
- a feeling of considerable warmth
- an alert and refreshed state
- A state of heat being emitted by a person or an animal's body.
- A state of brightness or warmth of colour; specifically, a reddish colour on a person's face indicating health or youth; a flush.
- A state of light being emitted by something (for example, a bioluminescent animal or fungus, or a mineral) which is not hot; luminescence.
- A state of heat and light being emitted by a hot object.
- A condition of being passionate or having warm feelings; an ardour.
verb
- shine intensely, as if with heat
- emit a steady even light without flames
- be exuberant or high-spirited
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
- To be very hot; also, to be on fire; to burn.
- (figurative, Internet slang, alt-right) To expose (someone) to the authorities.
- To emit heat and light without a flame.
- Of a person: to display intense emotion.
- Of a fire: to emit heat and light.
- To emit light brightly and steadily as if heated to a high temperature; to shine.
- (intransitive, obsolete except UK, dialectal) To look intently; to stare.
- Of a person's body or a part of it: to feel hot and often to flush (“become suffused with a reddish colour”) as well, due to an emotional response, exertion, etc.
- (chiefly US, Internet slang) To be involved in an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
- Of a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour.
- (chiefly US, Internet slang, alt-right) To create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
noun
- an optical device for projecting a beam of light
- an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen
- An optical device that projects a beam of light, especially one used to project an image (or moving images) 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
- the visual property of something that shines with reflected light
- a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain
- a quality that outshines the usual
- An ornamental light providing luster, especially a chandelier.
- A piece of glass added to a light (especially a chandelier) to increase its luster.
- The ability or condition of shining with reflected light; sheen, gleam, gloss, sparkle, shine, etc.
- A substance that imparts luster to a surface, such as polish, gloss, plumbago, glaze, etc.
- (figurative) Polish, social refinement.
- (literary) Any shining body or thing.
- (figurative) Shining light from within, luminosity, brightness, shine.
- The layer of an object that imparts luster, chiefly with regard to ceramics.
- Clipping of lusterware: highly lustrous ceramics.
- (geology) The way in which the surface of any particular type of mineral reflects light differently from other minerals, which is helpful in telling minerals apart.
- A kind of lustrous fabric with a wool weft and cotton, linen, or silk warp, chiefly used for women's dresses.
- (figurative) Shining beauty, splendor, attractiveness or attraction.
- Alternative form of lustrum: A five-year period, especially (historical) in Roman contexts.
- (figurative) Shining fame, renown, glory.
verb
noun
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- Something which reflects heat, light or sound, especially something having a reflecting surface.
- A safety reflector.
- (cellular automata) A pattern which can change the direction and/or offset of an oncoming spaceship without being destroyed.
- A reflecting telescope.
- A small, often red, reflecting disk on the rear of a vehicle or bicycle that reflects the headlights of other vehicles.
- One who reflects on something; one who thinks or considers at length.
- Something that is reflective (indicative) of something else.
- optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece
- device that reflects radiation
noun
- A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
- (figuratively) An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
- A mirror carp.
- (computing, Internet) A website or server that contains replicated data from another site.
- (historical) A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.
- a faithful depiction or reflection
- polished surface that forms images by reflecting light
verb
- (transitive) To act as a reflection of, either by being identical to, or by being identical but reversed.
- (transitive) To reflect, as in a mirror.
- (transitive) Of an event, activity, behavior, to be identical to; to be a copy of; to imitate closely.
- (transitive, computing, Internet) To create something identical to (a website, etc.).
- reflect as if in a mirror
- reflect or resemble
noun
- A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light.
- A beam of light produced by such a device; a laser beam.
- A laser printer.
- (uncountable, medicine) Ellipsis of laser hair removal.
- A gum resin obtained from certain umbelliferous plants.
- Such a plant.
- an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
verb
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
- (optics) A single-faceted reflector.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional object comprising one vertex and one (not necessarily straight) edge both of whose ends are that vertex.
- (geometry) A two-dimensional object comprising one vertex, one edge both of whose ends are that vertex, and one face filling in the hollow formed by that edge.
noun
- an artificial source of visible illumination
- a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs
- A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
- A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
- A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
verb
noun
- (physics) The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
- (physics, weather) Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
- The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
- (marketing) The gradual spread and adoption of goods or services.
- (physics) The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
- The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
- The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.
- the property of being diffused or dispersed
- the act of dispersing or diffusing something
- (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration
- the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another
noun
- the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light
- incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
- the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation
- (countable) An opaque area.
- (optics, countable) A measure of relative impenetrability to electromagnetic radiation such as light.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being opaque, not allowing light to pass through.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being inaccessible to understanding.
noun
- (optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
- (informal, chemistry, uncountable) Caustic soda.
- (mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
- Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
- any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue
- the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object
adj
noun
- (photography, television) An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
- (figurative) Anything that provides similar protection.
- (figurative) Anything that provides similar overarching coverage of a range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
- The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
- A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
- (ice hockey) A strategy in which five players in the offensive zone form an umbrella-shaped formation around the opposition's goal net.
- having the function of uniting a group of similar things
- a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy
- a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets
verb
adj
noun
- the craft of providing artificial light
- the act of setting something on fire
- having abundant light or illumination
- apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
- The act of activating such equipment, or of igniting a flame etc.
- The equipment used to provide illumination; the illumination so provided.
verb
noun
- Brightness from reflected light.
- Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
- Brightness from a source of light.
- (slang) Moonshine; an illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
- (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
- (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
- Shoeshine.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
- Sunshine (typically in contrast with rain).
- the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
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- (intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
- (intransitive, copulative) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.
- (intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be smooth and shiny by rubbing; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
- (intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.
- be distinguished or eminent
- emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
- be clear and obvious
- be shiny, as if wet
- throw or flash the light of (a lamp)
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- make (a surface) shine
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
- be bright by reflecting or casting light
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- (optics) A transparent block in the shape of a prism (sense 1), typically with triangular ends, used to reflect or refract light.
- (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.
- (figurative) A perspective that colours one's perception.
- a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
- optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
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- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
- cause to become widely known
- cause to separate
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- move away from each other
- separate (light) into spectral rays
- distribute loosely
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- Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent.
- Of a person, their mind, etc.: able to think and understand clearly; not confused; clear, sharp.
- Of music or some other sound: not discordant or harsh; clear and pure-sounding.
- Easily understood; clear.
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
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- reflecting light
- superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense
- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers
- (figurative) Attention-grabbing and superficially attractive.
- Having a smooth, silklike, reflective (shiny) surface.
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- a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions
- (zoology, anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
- (biochemistry) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
- (poetic) Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
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- capable of physically reflecting light or sound
- devoted to matters of the mind
- deeply or seriously thoughtful
- (grammar) Reciprocal.
- (programming) Involving reflection.
- That reflects, or redirects back to the source.
- Pondering, especially thinking back on the past.
- (programming) By means of reflection.
- That reveals or shows; revealing; indicative of.