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- noun Common misspelling of
lens . (presumably a back-formation from the plurallenses )
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- noun a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
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Examples
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Clay, speaking about the crosshair Movement proble, If using a scope with adjustable objective lense, this can happen when the objective lense is adjusted wrong.
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Clay, speaking about the crosshair Movement proble, If using a scope with adjustable objective lense, this can happen when the objective lense is adjusted wrong.
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- The flip side of the “progress” you see in publishers looking at the things they publish through a “human rights” lense is the chill that might bring to legitimate topics of discussion.
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The analysis of Twitter through your blogging lense is interesting.
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My lense is my lense, and yours is your own and I respect that.
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If you listen to Obama's victory speech, and with that "lense" view Obama's remarks you see that he was referring to the "old style" politics that Bill has been mired in.
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We see the jungle, then get to see what Spiderman sees as the camera does a zoom through his mask, through some kind of lense, and to Pete's eye, at which point it turns around and looks through the lens to see the interior of the building, sans holographics.
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"lense" of soil and have contaminated groundwater on Long Island with impunity.
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"lense" of soil and have contaminated groundwater on Long Island with impunity.
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For all-around fishing use I would go with an amber lense, although vermillion is also a good choice.
tbtabby commented on the word lense
In entertainment industry slang, "to shoot a movie."
August 26, 2009