Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A convex lens used to focus the sun's rays and produce heat, especially for ignition.
  • noun Eyeglasses with tinted or polarizing lenses to protect the eyes from the sun's glare.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as shade-glass; a screen of colored glass attached to a sextant to diminish the apparent brightness of the sun.
  • noun A burning-glass.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A convex lens of glass for producing heat by converging the sun's rays into a focus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Singular form of sunglasses; used chiefly in compounds

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a convex lens that focuses the rays of the sun; used to start a fire

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Examples

  • Bullies at school will be met with federal agents' sunglass'd stares instead of lunch money or swirlies.

    The wild speculation that Sarah Palin is not the real mother of the new baby she presents as her own. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Glasses $2200 with magnetic sunglasses and since he lost the last set in a year we bought an extra magnetic sunglass for an additional $400 pesos.

    eye glasses 2009

  • In select bike shops, complete kits of sunglass parts in all the available colors will be available for shop employees to custom built glasses on the spot for customers.

    Interbike Tech Gallery: Enve Composites, Honey Stinger, Oakley, and more 2010

  • She is an employee of a sunglass company, Oakley Inc., the liaison to Armstrong, who was paid handsomely to wear the firm's glasses.

    Jonathan Littman: Lance Armstrong Witnesses on Hot Seat Jonathan Littman 2010

  • On Tuesday, she could be found in the basement of Ilori, the luxury sunglass retailer in SoHo, with Fabiola Beracasa and Jessica Joffe, as waiters passed around chocolate bars and guests wrote missives in erasable, colorful ink on a big mirror.

    At New York Parties,Visions of Grandeur Marshall Heyman 2011

  • The cost, complete with two pairs of progressive (trifocal blended) lenses (one sunglass type) and the frames was around $2500 pesos.

    eye glasses 2009

  • Glasses $2200 with magnetic sunglasses and since he lost the last set in a year we bought an extra magnetic sunglass for an additional $400 pesos.

    eye glasses 2009

  • "Same to you, man—whatever that means!" yells a young man who works at a sunglass store on Washington Street.

    "We Are the Last Minority" Say Surrealist Poets Con Chapman 2011

  • The cost, complete with two pairs of progressive (trifocal blended) lenses (one sunglass type) and the frames was around $2500 pesos.

    eye glasses 2009

  • In April, the Crocs brand will extend to children's apparel through an agreement with A Group and Eye King LLC will start selling branded sunglasses and sunglass accessories in May.

    Crocs Licenses Brand for Accessories, Apparel Melodie Warner 2012

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