| 单词 | diminishing glass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdiminishing glass a. That makes less. Spec. diminishing glass, an instrument which causes objects to appear smaller than they appear to the naked eye; diminishing mirror, a convex mirror in which the image is reduced in scale; diminishing rod, that part of the mechanism of a cotton-roving machine which gives the bobbins of roving their conical ends. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > producing or allowing decrease reductive1633 straiteninga1652 diminishing1665 diminutive1677 remissive1686 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > diminishing glass diminishing glass1665 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 3 [It] may by..some convenient Diminishing-Glasses, be made vanish into a scarce visible Speck. 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) II. 210 If they could read through a diminishing glass. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. xiv. 225 A private sitting-room..fitted up with a diminishing mirror. 1868 C. M. Yonge Chaplet of Pearls I. i. 2 They [sc. children] looked like a full-grown couple seen through a diminishing-glass. 1890 J. Nasmith Mod. Cotton Spinning Machinery x. 168 The slide in its reciprocal vertical movement causes, by means of the ‘diminishing rod’ or ‘hangar bar’, the upper cradle to oscillate in its centre. 1896 Daily News 28 May 2/2 Diminishing and magnifying glasses such as are used by artists. < as lemmas |
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