Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small magnifying glass usually set in an eyepiece and used chiefly by watchmakers and jewelers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mass of pasty iron mingled with slag as taken from the Catalan forge when ready to be shingled. Also called
massé , in French, and in the American bloomeries most generally a bloom, but also frequently a lump, and sometimes calledloupe . - n. A lens or magnifying-glass.
Wiktionary
- n. A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
- n. A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Any of a variety of small magnifying glasses, having a magnifying power from 2X to 20X, commonly of 10X, which may be held in the hand, or in some cases held within the eyesocket without the use of a hand. It is commonly used by jewelers and watchmakers.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French loupe. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, flawed gem, probably of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Aside from the technical gear, average shoppers can snag a swan-shaped velvet ring box ($2) or jewelry soap ($3.95), or get a close look at their own gems with the jeweler's monocle known as a loupe ($20 to more than $100).”
““That good?” he asked, putting down the photographer’s proofs of turkeys—Matt was on the Butterball campaign—that he was studying with a little magnifying glass called a loupe.”
“Continuing to cruife at the entrance of the Channel, on the 31ft of Oflober he took a French (hip from Guada - loupe, which is faid by fome to have mounted forty guns, and to have had on board a cargo valued at upwards of one hundred thoufand pounds.”
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“That is where the line can become a snaking slow-paced procession leading to a Transportation Security Officers who is manually checks passengers' IDs by using a black light and magnifying loupe.”
“Analog animators use a light box for tracing and animating and film photographers use them to look at negatives with a loupe, the main difference being an animator was less concerned with the warmth of the light where as a photographer was b/c of white balance.”
“I'm fairly sure that a loupe would confirm what I suspect: Fabio has given her the best of the best.”
“Sarah Hotchkiss 's "My Vacation to the Moon" 2011 is a mini-installation—including a print, a lightbox, a loupe and a fake slide—that pays homage to Kodachrome, the now-discontinued color transparency film that from 1935 to 2009 recorded innumerable trips so vividly.”
“ The fiend ignored me and stepped through the apartment, looking at things, picking them up: a jeweler's loupe, a round tin of mints, a cantaloupe.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘loupe’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
lacis, laches, labret, labile, lability, labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, lux, luff, lour, limn and 496 more...
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Chabon, Michael
A lexicographical taste of his novels.
omniveillant, exophthalmic, loupe, golem, aetataureate, animadversion, termagancy, cuspidor, bombes, viridian, escutcheon, moderne and 6 more...
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Horological Vocabulary
Just curious about using Wordnik's list functionality.
escapement, balance, detent, regulate, complication, balance wheel, caliber, ruby, movement, rate, lunette, simple movement and 10 more...
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exlotuseater's Words
autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
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Digital Terms
Words come and go, perhaps nowhere faster than online. Some industry terms to stay current -- or to remember as they rest in peace.
tweet, cpm, crackberry, nofollow, brick-and-mortar, page view, double opt-in, opt-in, opt-out, mash-up, word of mouth, ctr and 200 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, L
lisle, lahar, loupe, labret, latten, luster, lagomorph, lamentation, limicole, lunge, lobtail, latifolious and 182 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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My all time favourites
filigree, bouzouki, rambunctious, grotesque, eleemosynary, couthy, jonquil, spokeshave, imp, cushy, banjo, loupe and 17 more...
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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Words gatherd while reading The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
eiderdown, sowbelly, shambling, linthead, bohunk, lingeringly, undervest, rosette, scroughe, gramophone, nair, tousle and 28 more...
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objects
teapot, tea cosy, kettle, bandana, canopy, crockery, cutlery, doormat, easel, loupe, allen key, bric-a-brac and 35 more...
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Trade
Words from my professional life.
loupe, klieg light, multi-image, magic lantern, glass mount, kodaliths, dupe, flat art, twelve projector ..., cell painting, overhead transpar..., bullet point and 33 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for loupe.
ecbrenner In computer software: "Loupe is a utility that displays a magnified view of whatever is beneath the mouse cursor, much like a jeweler or printer loupe. A loupe can be found in products like Adobe Acrobat, or it is available as a stand-alone desktop utility. The term is derived from a loupe magnifying glass, which is usually found to have a magnification of 10X" --Webopedia Sep 21, 2009
super-logos Le veiller est la vie des hommes.
French Emblems at Glasgow Aug 13, 2008
joshbgraham "not so much at being caught out and having to confess his lowly status to his cousin, as at this evidence of a flaw in the omniveillant maternal loupe" (Kavalier and Clay 9) Aug 12, 2008