- a curved piece of glass or plastic that makes things look larger, smaller or clearer when you look through it
- a pair of glasses with tinted lenses
Extra Examples- Put your hand in front of your right lens and just look through your left lens.
- She wears glasses with very thick lenses.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- strong
- thick
- coloured/colored
- …
- cap
- cover
- through a/the lens
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- a piece of equipment that is part of a camera, containing one or more lenses
- a camera with an adjustable lens
- a view of Mount Kilimanjaro as seen through Eddie's camera lens
- a lens cap/cover
- a long-lens shot of a rare bird
- (informal) a contact lens (= a small round piece of thin plastic that you put on your eye to help you see better)
- Have you got your lenses in?
- (anatomy) the clear part of the eye, behind the pupil, that focuses light so that you can see clearlyTopics Bodyc1
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from Latin, ‘lentil’ (because of the similarity in shape).
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