lens
noun /lenz/
  /lenz/
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enlarge imagea curved piece of glass or plastic that makes things look larger, smaller or clearer when you look through it- a pair of glasses with tinted lenses
 
Extra Examples- Put your hand in front of your right lens and just look through your left lens.
 - She wears glasses with very thick lenses.
 
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- strong
 - thick
 - coloured/colored
 - …
 
- cap
 - cover
 
- through a/the lens
 
- a piece of equipment that is part of a camera, containing one or more lenses
- a camera with an adjustable lens
 - a view of Mount Kilimanjaro as seen through Eddie's camera lens
 - a lens cap/cover
 - a long-lens shot of a rare bird
 
 - (informal) a contact lens (= a small round piece of thin plastic that you put on your eye to help you see better)
- Have you got your lenses in?
 
 - (anatomy) the clear part of the eye, behind the pupil, that focuses light so that you can see clearlyTopics Bodyc1
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Word Originlate 17th cent.: from Latin, ‘lentil’ (because of the similarity in shape).


