kliegn.

Brit.

/kliːɡ/, U.S.

/kliɡ/

Forms: Also kleig and with capital initial.

Etymology: < the name of two brothers, A. T. and J. H. Kliegl, who invented it in the U.S.

Cinematography.

a. In full klieg light. Originally: a kind of arc lamp invented for use as a studio light. Hence: any powerful electric light used in film-making, or in television.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > arc light > types of

Jablochkoff1877

Pointolite1916

klieg1925

1925 Movie Mag. Nov. 57/1 The scene in a motion picture studio is eternally the same. It doesn't matter what difference there is in the set which raises its skeleton wings towards the Kleigs.

1927 U. Sinclair Oil! xiv. 355 The kleigs glare upon them, and a dozen moving picture cameras grind.

1931 A. Nadell Projecting Sound Pict. xiv. 250 Klieg (arc) lights are passé; they made too much noise; 1,000-watt incandescents are used.

1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvii. 237 The sunshine, vivid as a Kleig light, revealed every wrinkle in his melancholy..face.

1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety ii. 39 The polychrome Oval With its kleig lights and crowd engineers.

1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids viii. 141 At the first blink it was as dazzling as a klieg light.

1957 New Yorker 13 July 21/1 My brother and I [sc. Mr. John H. Kliegl] invented the klieg light around 1911—the first practical light for taking motion pictures indoors. It projected a beam, by means of carbons, that emitted a light of high actinic power.

1967 Economist 7 Jan. 40/2 Inaugurated in a blaze of familiar kleig lights.

1969 Rolling Stone 28 June 13 The kleig lights shine for a mercifully brief moment upon an aging cosmetic face.

b. klieg eyes n. an eye condition caused by exposure to very bright light, characterized by watering and conjunctivitis; hence klieg-eyed adj.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > conjunctivitis or ophthalmitis > types of

psorophthalmia1585

psorophthalmy1656

xerophthalmia1656

ophthalmia neonatorum1835

photophobophthalmia1842

sun blight1848

sand-blight1852

sandy blight1869

blepharoconjunctivitis1890

pink-eye1897

klieg eyes1923

bung eye1933

shipyard eye1943

red-eye1952

1923 Sci. Amer. Oct. 243/1 The burning of the eyeball by the ultra-violet rays... This malady appears so freely among motion-picture actors..that a name, ‘Kleig eyes’, has been coined for it.

1941 Amer. Cinematographer Dec. 589 The ultra-violet glare from those unshielded arcs..literally sunburned the actors' eyeballs and created the dread malady, ‘kleig eye’.

1973 Rolling Stone 30 Aug. 38 Most folks got back to San Clemente sated, klieg-eyed and tired.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	klieg
释义	kliegn. Brit. /kliːɡ/, U.S. /kliɡ/ Forms: Also kleig and with capital initial. Etymology: < the name of two brothers, A. T. and J. H. Kliegl, who invented it in the U.S. Cinematography. a. In full klieg light. Originally: a kind of arc lamp invented for use as a studio light. Hence: any powerful electric light used in film-making, or in television. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > arc light > types of Jablochkoff1877 Pointolite1916 klieg1925 1925 Movie Mag. Nov. 57/1 The scene in a motion picture studio is eternally the same. It doesn't matter what difference there is in the set which raises its skeleton wings towards the Kleigs. 1927 U. Sinclair Oil! xiv. 355 The kleigs glare upon them, and a dozen moving picture cameras grind. 1931 A. Nadell Projecting Sound Pict. xiv. 250 Klieg (arc) lights are passé; they made too much noise; 1,000-watt incandescents are used. 1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvii. 237 The sunshine, vivid as a Kleig light, revealed every wrinkle in his melancholy..face. 1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety ii. 39 The polychrome Oval With its kleig lights and crowd engineers. 1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids viii. 141 At the first blink it was as dazzling as a klieg light. 1957 New Yorker 13 July 21/1 My brother and I [sc. Mr. John H. Kliegl] invented the klieg light around 1911—the first practical light for taking motion pictures indoors. It projected a beam, by means of carbons, that emitted a light of high actinic power. 1967 Economist 7 Jan. 40/2 Inaugurated in a blaze of familiar kleig lights. 1969 Rolling Stone 28 June 13 The kleig lights shine for a mercifully brief moment upon an aging cosmetic face. b. klieg eyes n. an eye condition caused by exposure to very bright light, characterized by watering and conjunctivitis; hence klieg-eyed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > conjunctivitis or ophthalmitis > types of psorophthalmia1585 psorophthalmy1656 xerophthalmia1656 ophthalmia neonatorum1835 photophobophthalmia1842 sun blight1848 sand-blight1852 sandy blight1869 blepharoconjunctivitis1890 pink-eye1897 klieg eyes1923 bung eye1933 shipyard eye1943 red-eye1952 1923 Sci. Amer. Oct. 243/1 The burning of the eyeball by the ultra-violet rays... This malady appears so freely among motion-picture actors..that a name, ‘Kleig eyes’, has been coined for it. 1941 Amer. Cinematographer Dec. 589 The ultra-violet glare from those unshielded arcs..literally sunburned the actors' eyeballs and created the dread malady, ‘kleig eye’. 1973 Rolling Stone 30 Aug. 38 Most folks got back to San Clemente sated, klieg-eyed and tired. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1923
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