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单词 eye ring
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eye ringn.

Brit. /ˈʌɪ rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈaɪ ˌrɪŋ/
Forms: see eye n.1 and ring n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.1, ring n.1
Etymology: < eye n.1 + ring n.1
1. The region of the face around the eye; = eye n.1 1b; (also) the eye socket. Obsolete.
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 458 He geseah beorhte ansundum eagum, þeah ðe hi ær wæron ut adyde of þam eahhringum.
OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 442 Patentibus oculorum orbibus : opniendum eahringum.
c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 62 He cwæð ða to þam unleaffullum: Mid lame he me smirode ofer mine eahringæs.
2. Chiefly Ornithology. A distinctively coloured ring surrounding the eye of an animal, esp. a bird.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > eye > part around eye
eye ring1832
concha1834
rose1890
1832 Sat. Mag. 25 Aug. 68/1 Bill yellowish-brown; eye-rings chesnut; feet and legs flesh-coloured.
1903 Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 45 14 Sciurus piniensis... Cheeks, eye ring, and ill-defined area about roots of whiskers nearly clear ochraceous.
1977 A. J. Prater et al. Guide Identification & Ageing Holarctic Waders 31 (heading) Large pied wader with, in adult, orange-red bill, pink legs, red iris and orange-red eyering.
2013 Stirling Observer (Nexis) 8 Feb. 26 The ‘crocus coloured’ bill and golden eye rings of the cock merle surely give it a more regal appearance.
3. A pin, bar, bolt, etc., with a ring or eye at one end.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > pin or peg > other types of pin or peg
shackle-pin1446
corking-pin?1690
drawing pin1812
eye ring1836
pound pins1838
coupling-pin1874
1836 Trans. Soc. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce 50 i. 166 In the front or upper end of the bar is a round hole, made to receive the taper pin of the eye-ring.
1870 U.S. Patent 108,115 1/2 [Parts labelled] bb are horizontal sliding shafts... Near the center of their lengths are collars, between which are eye-rings.
1907 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 23 July 1493/2 An insulated tube fitted over the collar..and an eye ring fitted upon the insulating tube.
1966 Billboard 29 Oct. 105 (advt.) The game consists of an electrified eye ring on a plastic handle which is guided over a crooked metal rod.
2006 E. B. Burnley Surf Fishing Atlantic Coast (ed. 2) ii. 43 Some plugs use an eye ring that is screwed or molded into the body.
4. Optics. A circular space within which the eye of the user of an optical instrument must be placed in order to obtain the full field of view; = exit pupil n. at exit n. Compounds 2.
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1887 R. S. Heath Treat. Geom. Optics x. 251 The image of the surface of the object-glass as seen through the instrument is called the eye-ring. Every ray which passes through the instrument will emerge within the eye-ring, at the image.
1902 C. R. Mann & R. A. Millikan tr. P. Drude Theory of Optics 77 The exit-pupil is often called the eye-ring, and its centre is called the position of the eye.
1985 R. Muncaster A-level Physics (ed. 2) xxi. 347 The eye-ring of a telescope is a washer-like disc, positioned so that its circular aperture coincides with the image of the objective lens formed by the eyepiece lens.
2004 G. North Observing Variable Stars ii. 25 The eyepiece of a telescope produces a disk of light, usually known as the exit pupil, or the Ramsden disk, or sometimes as the eye ring.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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