单词 | eye end |
释义 | > as lemmaseye end eye end n. the end of something nearest an eye; the end containing an eye; spec. the end of a telescope to which the eye is applied. ΚΠ 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation i. 128/1 First, The Ten-Cross, which belongs to that side of the Staff called the Ten-Side, where the Graduations begin at about 3 Degrees, and proceeding towards the Center, or Eye-end, encrease (by 10 Minutes) to 10 Degrees. 1790 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 154 This piece of mechanism in the eye-end of the telescope. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 645 The operator, who keeps drawing the sewn cloth off at the eye-end of the needle. 1926 Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 11 157 The soft brown discoloration either at the stalk or at the eye end of the fruit. 1947 Postgraduate Med. Jrnl. 23 518/1 X-rays showed the eye end of a sewing needle inside the spinal canal. 2006 Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, Sask.) (Nexis) 8 Nov. a4 If people own modern telescopes with solar filters, the filter has to go over the end furthest from the eye, not the eye end. < as lemmas |
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