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单词 kaleidoscope
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kaleidoscopen.

Brit. /kəˈlʌɪdəskəʊp/, U.S. /kəˈlaɪdəˌskoʊp/
Etymology: < Greek καλός beautiful + εἶδος form + -scope comb. form. Named by its inventor, Sir David Brewster, in 1817. Calidoscope in Newman, Gramm. Assent i. v. (1870) 107.
a. An optical instrument, consisting of from two to four reflecting surfaces placed in a tube, at one end of which is a small compartment containing pieces of coloured glass: on looking through the tube, numerous reflections of these are seen, producing brightly-coloured symmetrical figures, which may be constantly altered by rotation of the instrument.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > optical and scientific toys > [noun]
multiplying-glass1639
Cartesian devil1731
kaleidoscope1817
myriorama1823
thaumatrope1827
bottle imp1833
phantasmascope1833
phenakistoscope1834
stroboscope1836
anorthoscope1842
tantalus-cup1842
phantascope1851
phantoscope1861
Pharaoh's serpent1863
phosphoroscope1866
zoetrope1866
wheel of life1872
praxinoscope1878
zoopraxiscope1881
phantoscope1894
Newton's cradle1971
1817 D. Brewster Specif. Patent 4136 (heading) A new optical instrument called the Kaleidoscope.
1818 Murray Let. to Byron in Smiles Mem. (1891) I. xvi. 398 I send you a very well-constructed Kaleidoscope, a newly-invented toy.
1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 20 The Kaleidoscope of Dr. Brewster is here fabricated in a rude style, and in quantities so great, that it is given as a plaything to children.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 62 The beautifully symmetrical shapes seen in a common kaleidoscope.
b. figurative. A constantly changing group of bright colours or coloured objects; anything which exhibits a succession of shifting phases.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] > changeable person or thing
weathercocka1300
wind?a1513
Proteus1528
chameleon1586
moon's man1598
vane1598
mooncalf1607
remover1609
tarand1641
inconstant1647
mutables1652
changeablea1711
kaleidoscope1819
phantasmagoria1822
palimpsest1845
variable1846
the world > matter > colour > variegation > iridescence > [noun] > iridescent appearance or formation
irisa1616
iridescency1799
kaleidoscope1819
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II xciii. 165 This rainbow look'd like hope—Quite a celestial kaleidoscope.
1824 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings I. 82 The mind of Petrarch was a kaleidoscope.
1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel Pref. 29 To allow truth and falsehood to be jumbled together in one ever-shifting kaleidoscope of opinions.
1878 R. H. Hutton Scott i. 8 A hundred changing turns of the historical kaleidoscope.
c. attributive.
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1834 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 69 The few kaleidoscope passages, where ambitious words and crowded figures are so richly embroidered in.
1855 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) x. 314 A kaleidoscope quickness and variety of intellect.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

kaleidoscopev.

Brit. /kəˈlʌɪdəskəʊp/, U.S. /kəˈlaɪdəˌskoʊp/
Etymology: < kaleidoscope n.
To present the appearance of a brightly coloured and constantly changing pattern; to cause to come together or coalesce with pleasing results.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > iridescence > be iridescent [verb (intransitive)]
play1698
opalize1811
opalesce1819
iridesce1884
kaleidoscope1900
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (transitive)] > intimately or harmoniously
unanimy1596
complicate1621
kaleidoscope1900
1900 Literature 14 July 25/1 In ‘Isis’..Villiers kaleidoscoped from his memory and imagination what he had read in many Oriental and medieval books.
1933 Discovery July 218/2 The sitting-rooms, parlour, drawing-room, morning room, study, library, ballroom and so on have all been kaleidoscoped into the living room.

Derivatives

kaˈleidoscoping adj. and n.
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1891 Daily News 5 Mar. 5/3 The spectators in the gallery cheered heartily when some particularly effective kaleidoscoping of colours happened amongst the dancers on the floor below.
1894 Daily News 1 Feb. 3/1 If the ladies and gentlemen so industriously kaleidoscoping below only cared, they might do something better on these carnival nights than play at devils and clowns.
1971 Guardian 4 Jan. 9/2 These days of kaleidoscoping time.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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