miragen.

Brit.

/mᵻˈrɑːʒ/,

/ˈmɪrɑːʒ/, U.S.

/məˈrɑʒ/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mirage.

Etymology: < French mirage (1753 in sense 1, 1829 in sense 2, 1956 in sense 4) < mirer to be reflected (see mire v.²) + -age -age suffix.

1. A deceptive image of a distant object formed by light that is refracted as it passes through air of varying temperature; the appearance of such images as an atmospheric phenomenon; esp. the appearance of what looks like a distant sheet of water in a desert or over a hot road surface.Mirages are of three principal kinds, inferior, superior, and lateral, according to whether the image is seen, respectively, below, above, or to one side of the source. The commonest occurs when the air in contact with the ground is warmer than the overlying air. Light travelling downwards from the sky is bent upwards to an observer's eye and produces an inverted image of the sky below ground level; this commonly appears as a distant pool of water, shimmering as a result of the movement of the intervening air. If the lower air is cooler than the overlying air (e.g. over water), an aerial image is produced, as in the Fata Morgana.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > hot weather > [noun] > shimmering or undulating effect of hot air

summer colts1686

mirage1812

haze1847

Laurence1907

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > mirage

mirage1812

seraba1835

mountain spectre1880

1803 W. H. Wollaston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 1 The phenomenon known to the French by the name of mirage, which their army had daily opportunities of seeing, in their march through the deserts of Egypt.]

1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee v, in Tales Fashionable Life I. 383 Cupid can..lead us into a mirage, and leave us in a dismal desert.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xxxi. 261 There is produced the appearance of two persons moving in opposite directions, constituting what has been termed a lateral mirage.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 261/2 This kind of mirage is not peculiar to Egypt; it is known in Persia also, where it is called Serab or Sir-ab (miraculous water).

1862 R. F. Burton City of Saints (ed. 2) i. 78 The dashing rains and angry winds have cut the old line of road at its base into a regular moat with a semicircular sweep, which the mirage fills with a mimic river.

1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 449/1 Target shooting has its pleasures, the principal of which is the overcoming of the difficulties caused by changeable light, bad winds, and mirage.

1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life iv. 129 The mirage is one of Nature's obscure and cheerless jokes.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VIII. 506/1 If the air closer to the ground is much colder than the air above, the..object then seems to be elevated or floating in the air, the superior mirage.

1983 R. Rendell Speaker of Mandarin v. 64 Could he convince himself it was a mirage he had seen in that river village, a trick of the heat and light.

2. An illusion or fantasy; something that appears real or possible but is not in fact so.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] > an instance of, illusion

wielOE

illusionc1374

phantoma1375

delusion1552

allusion1595

blandation1612

prestigy1615

mirage1813

1813 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 8 322 Against this Goliath of the philosophists [sc. Godwin] Mr. Malthus stept forth, at a time, when the mirage in which the champion had made his appearance was pretty well dispersed, and had left him in his natural dimensions.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 164 If the Self-examinant will..exchange the safe circle of Religion and practical Reason for the shifting Sand-wastes and Mirages of Speculative Theology.

1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 141 They lie beyond the horizon of the every-day world and become visible only when the mirage of fantasy lifts them up.

1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 57 It is perhaps the craving for some such donnée which draws us on toward the present mirage of poetic drama.

1940 Economist 13 July 37/1 The efficacy of blockade is a mirage, a delusion comparable to the Maginot-complex that bemused and enervated France.

1989 Far Eastern Econ. Rev. 30 Mar. 41/3 For despite its often squalid reality, Delhi continues to be for many a mirage city, a promised land of plenty.

3. A pale colour, in later use usually blue, grey, or turquoise. Also modifying the names of colours, as mirage blue, mirage grey, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [noun]

uncolouredness1660

colourlessness1672

achromatism1797

achromaticity1821

blankness1850

huelessness1861

mirage1927

the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > relating to tone > light or pale

whiteeOE

palec1350

lighta1398

whitey1556

bleak1566

wan1567

whitish1577

pasty1607

mirage1927

1927 Underwear & Hosiery Rev. Oct. 63 Mirage is a shade paler than Grain.

1932 Index to Color Names (Textile Color Card Assoc. of U.S.) 34 Mirage Blue... F[all] '31.

1964 New Yorker 5 Sept. 86/1 (advt.) Slip into the Runabout Shift... Desert cloth..in desert tones..mirage-aqua, sunset-red [etc.].

1976 Scotsman 20 Nov. 10/1 The pale blue mirage coat with its Lucca lamb shawl collar is a dream.

1976 Liverpool Echo 22 Nov. 15/5 (advt.) Marina..Coupe..,mirage grey, one owner.

4. In form Mirage. Any of various French-made fighter planes.

ΚΠ

1956 Aviation Week 12 Mar. 227 (table) MD-550... Mirage..Interceptor.

1975 Times 15 Jan. 6/5 The Belgians, who have already bought Mirages, inclined towards the French aircraft.

1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 22 Jan. a1/1 An Iraqi anti-aircraft missile battery..fixed its radar on the U.S. planes and a French F-1 Mirage flying with them.

Compounds

General attributive.

C1.

mirage dream n.

ΚΠ

1908 Daily Chron. 3 Aug. 3/2 It was like one of those mirage dreams which lure the gambler to his doom.

mirage-water n.

ΚΠ

1918 E. Sitwell Clowns' Houses 11 Then, mirage-waters as they flow, Or dream-perfumes, they fade and go.

C2. Similative, instrumental, and objective.

mirage-bright adj.

ΚΠ

1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty xvii. 65 Mirage-bright It lies, that dusty gold.

mirage-lifted adj.

ΚΠ

1874 J. G. Whittier Sea Dream in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 160 And watched the mirage-lifted wall Of coast, across the dreamy bay.

mirage-making adj.

ΚΠ

1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk i. 13 And the wide rolling downs quivered and danced with the same beautiful mirage-making islands of kopjes.

mirage-reflected adj.

ΚΠ

1923 R. Graves Whipperginny 9 Mirage-reflected drink At the clear pool's brink.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mirage
释义	miragen. Brit. /mᵻˈrɑːʒ/, /ˈmɪrɑːʒ/, U.S. /məˈrɑʒ/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mirage. Etymology: < French mirage (1753 in sense 1, 1829 in sense 2, 1956 in sense 4) < mirer to be reflected (see mire v.²) + -age -age suffix. 1. A deceptive image of a distant object formed by light that is refracted as it passes through air of varying temperature; the appearance of such images as an atmospheric phenomenon; esp. the appearance of what looks like a distant sheet of water in a desert or over a hot road surface.Mirages are of three principal kinds, inferior, superior, and lateral, according to whether the image is seen, respectively, below, above, or to one side of the source. The commonest occurs when the air in contact with the ground is warmer than the overlying air. Light travelling downwards from the sky is bent upwards to an observer's eye and produces an inverted image of the sky below ground level; this commonly appears as a distant pool of water, shimmering as a result of the movement of the intervening air. If the lower air is cooler than the overlying air (e.g. over water), an aerial image is produced, as in the Fata Morgana. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > hot weather > [noun] > shimmering or undulating effect of hot air summer colts1686 mirage1812 haze1847 Laurence1907 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > mirage mirage1812 seraba1835 mountain spectre1880 1803 W. H. Wollaston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 1 The phenomenon known to the French by the name of mirage, which their army had daily opportunities of seeing, in their march through the deserts of Egypt.] 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee v, in Tales Fashionable Life I. 383 Cupid can..lead us into a mirage, and leave us in a dismal desert. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xxxi. 261 There is produced the appearance of two persons moving in opposite directions, constituting what has been termed a lateral mirage. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 261/2 This kind of mirage is not peculiar to Egypt; it is known in Persia also, where it is called Serab or Sir-ab (miraculous water). 1862 R. F. Burton City of Saints (ed. 2) i. 78 The dashing rains and angry winds have cut the old line of road at its base into a regular moat with a semicircular sweep, which the mirage fills with a mimic river. 1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 449/1 Target shooting has its pleasures, the principal of which is the overcoming of the difficulties caused by changeable light, bad winds, and mirage. 1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life iv. 129 The mirage is one of Nature's obscure and cheerless jokes. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VIII. 506/1 If the air closer to the ground is much colder than the air above, the..object then seems to be elevated or floating in the air, the superior mirage. 1983 R. Rendell Speaker of Mandarin v. 64 Could he convince himself it was a mirage he had seen in that river village, a trick of the heat and light. 2. An illusion or fantasy; something that appears real or possible but is not in fact so. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] > an instance of, illusion wielOE illusionc1374 phantoma1375 delusion1552 allusion1595 blandation1612 prestigy1615 mirage1813 1813 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 8 322 Against this Goliath of the philosophists [sc. Godwin] Mr. Malthus stept forth, at a time, when the mirage in which the champion had made his appearance was pretty well dispersed, and had left him in his natural dimensions. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 164 If the Self-examinant will..exchange the safe circle of Religion and practical Reason for the shifting Sand-wastes and Mirages of Speculative Theology. 1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 141 They lie beyond the horizon of the every-day world and become visible only when the mirage of fantasy lifts them up. 1920 T. S. Eliot Sacred Wood 57 It is perhaps the craving for some such donnée which draws us on toward the present mirage of poetic drama. 1940 Economist 13 July 37/1 The efficacy of blockade is a mirage, a delusion comparable to the Maginot-complex that bemused and enervated France. 1989 Far Eastern Econ. Rev. 30 Mar. 41/3 For despite its often squalid reality, Delhi continues to be for many a mirage city, a promised land of plenty. 3. A pale colour, in later use usually blue, grey, or turquoise. Also modifying the names of colours, as mirage blue, mirage grey, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [noun] uncolouredness1660 colourlessness1672 achromatism1797 achromaticity1821 blankness1850 huelessness1861 mirage1927 the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > relating to tone > light or pale whiteeOE palec1350 lighta1398 whitey1556 bleak1566 wan1567 whitish1577 pasty1607 mirage1927 1927 Underwear & Hosiery Rev. Oct. 63 Mirage is a shade paler than Grain. 1932 Index to Color Names (Textile Color Card Assoc. of U.S.) 34 Mirage Blue... F[all] '31. 1964 New Yorker 5 Sept. 86/1 (advt.) Slip into the Runabout Shift... Desert cloth..in desert tones..mirage-aqua, sunset-red [etc.]. 1976 Scotsman 20 Nov. 10/1 The pale blue mirage coat with its Lucca lamb shawl collar is a dream. 1976 Liverpool Echo 22 Nov. 15/5 (advt.) Marina..Coupe..,mirage grey, one owner. 4. In form Mirage. Any of various French-made fighter planes. ΚΠ 1956 Aviation Week 12 Mar. 227 (table) MD-550... Mirage..Interceptor. 1975 Times 15 Jan. 6/5 The Belgians, who have already bought Mirages, inclined towards the French aircraft. 1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 22 Jan. a1/1 An Iraqi anti-aircraft missile battery..fixed its radar on the U.S. planes and a French F-1 Mirage flying with them. Compounds General attributive. C1. mirage dream n. ΚΠ 1908 Daily Chron. 3 Aug. 3/2 It was like one of those mirage dreams which lure the gambler to his doom. mirage-water n. ΚΠ 1918 E. Sitwell Clowns' Houses 11 Then, mirage-waters as they flow, Or dream-perfumes, they fade and go. C2. Similative, instrumental, and objective. mirage-bright adj. ΚΠ 1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty xvii. 65 Mirage-bright It lies, that dusty gold. mirage-lifted adj. ΚΠ 1874 J. G. Whittier Sea Dream in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 160 And watched the mirage-lifted wall Of coast, across the dreamy bay. mirage-making adj. ΚΠ 1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk i. 13 And the wide rolling downs quivered and danced with the same beautiful mirage-making islands of kopjes. mirage-reflected adj. ΚΠ 1923 R. Graves Whipperginny 9 Mirage-reflected drink At the clear pool's brink. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). miragev. Brit. /mᵻˈrɑːʒ/, /ˈmɪrɑːʒ/, U.S. /məˈrɑʒ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mirage n. Etymology: < mirage n. N.E.D. (1906) indicates the stress as miˈrage. transitive. To produce as a mirage; to cause to shimmer or otherwise resemble a mirage. ΚΠ 1861 Ladies' Repository Oct. 603 Visions beautiful below Seem like angels miraged there. 1876 H. Melville Clarel I. ii. xxxv. 286 The inventor miraged all the maze, Obscured it with prudential haze. 1895 T. Hardy Jude i. iii. 20 It was Christminster, unquestionably; either directly seen, or miraged in the peculiar atmosphere. 1925 Cent. Mag. Jan. 423 You'd rather trust the cool hardness of glass, miraging your lost universe, your leaves and your grass. 1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. xvii. 96 I was as helpless as Adam at the preview of early oriental history, miraged in his apple orchard. 1999 Q. Troupe Choruses III. 68 A grave from where four dooky flames used to shoot orange lizard tongues rippling skyward, miraging air with heat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1812v.1861
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miragen.

Compounds

miragev.