microscopen.

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪkrəskəʊp/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪkrəˌskoʊp/

Forms: 1600s mycroscop, 1600s mycroscope, 1600s– microscope.

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian microscopio.

Etymology: < Italian microscopio (J. Faber 1625: see Let. 13 Apr. in Galileo Opere (1903) XIII. 264), apparently < post-classical Latin microscopium (attributed to Demiscianus 1614) < micro- micro- comb. form + -scopium (in telescopium telescope n.). Compare French microscope (1656), German †Mikroskopium (1687), Mikroskop (early 19th cent.), Spanish microscopio (1709). Compare -scope comb. form and discussion at that entry.

I. Technical uses.

a. An optical instrument used to view very small objects, typically consisting of an arrangement of lenses that provide a magnification of several hundred times. Also called light microscope, optical microscope.An instrument with a single lens is more usually known as a magnifier or magnifying glass.comparison, compound, phase contrast, polarization microscope, etc.: see the first element.For an account of the history and development of the microscope see e.g. G. L'E. Turner Micrographia Historica (1972); S. Bradbury Evol. Microscope (1967).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope

glass1646

microscope1648

engyscope1685

engyscope1832

X-ray microscope1948

1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. xvi. 115 We see what strange discoveries of extream minute bodies, (as lice, wheal-worms, mites, and the like) are made by the Microscope, wherein their severall parts (which are altogether invisible to the bare eye) will distinctly appear.

1651 N. Highmore Hist. Generation viii. 70 The white circle..by a Microscope appears now to be the Carina or back and neck of the Chick.

1662 S. Patrick Brief Acct. Latitude-men 21 The severall discoveries we are beholden to the new invented microscope for.

1678 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 233 Pollishing glasses for prospectives and spectackles and mycroscops.

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 244 The Effects of Prejudice..are the same with those of Microscopes.

1742 H. Baker Microscope made Easy ii. xxv. 201 The minute Spiders appear very agreeable in the Microscope.

1778 F. Burney Early Jrnls. (1955) 189 The very Soul, & all it's most secret recesses..are..laid as open to the View, as the blood Globules circulating in a frog's foot, when seen thro' a Microscope.

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 436 When we examine the human Louse with the microscope, its external deformity strikes us with disgust.

1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 333 Under the microscope, the cells of the intima and of the middle and external coats were found to be considerably increased in number.

1926 W. Lewis Art of being Ruled i. ii. 13 Our life and personality, viewed as science obliges us to, is not humanly true or personally useful, any more than is the scarified, repellent picture of our skin under the microscope.

1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) ii. 56 After dissection from their hosts such parasites are examined under a microscope in Ringer's solution.

1976 Beano 13 Mar. 13 I'll have a close look at the germs through my microscope.

1993 Ontario Hog Farmer Q. Mag. Aug. 13/1 The company offers all the supplies you need—from bottles, beakers and extenders to coolers and microscopes.

b. Any of various devices used to project images of very small objects. Chiefly with distinguishing word indicating the source of light used in the device, as lucernal microscope, oxyhydrogen microscope, solar microscope. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for projecting image > [noun] > magic lantern

magic lantern1696

solar microscope1743

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope > other microscopes

lucernal microscope1743

gas microscope1833

oxyhydrogen microscope1839

binocular1871

orthostereoscope1892

pseudostereoscope1892

ultramicroscope1906

acoustic microscope1910

hodoscope1915

optical microscope1928

light microscope1934

comparison microscope1940

phase microscope1946

stereomicroscope1962

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > magic lantern > types of

lucernal microscope1743

megascope1831

oxyhydrogen microscope1839

physioscope1844

aphengescope1869

sciopticon1870

stereopticon1875

anarithmoscope1882

tri-unial1891

triple1892

episcope1909

1743 Boston Gaz. 27 Dec. 2/2 Now to be Seen in a large commodious Room at the House of Mr. Browne in Kingstreet, Boston , The Solar or Camera Obscura Microscope, Invented by the ingenious Mr. Liberkhun.

1787 G. Adams Ess. Microscope 65 This [sc. lucernal] microscope was originally thought of, and in part executed by my father.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 725 The improved lucernal microscope.

a1830 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) III. 470/2 The solar microscope differs entirely..from those above described.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 188/2 A few achromatic glasses for oxy-hydrogen microscopes have been made.

1865 (title) Directions for the use of the magic lantern, dissolving view apparatus, and oxy-hydrogen microscope, etc.

1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 381 A short exhibition with the oxy-hydrogen microscope was given, in addition to the use of more than fifty table microscopes.

1930 Science 29 Aug. 212/2 The lucernal was a simple compact form of projection microscope which could be conveniently demonstrated to a number of people at the same time.

1995 Independent 21 Oct. (Weekend section) 22/2 This is also the microscopist's spiritual home—solar microscopes, lucernal microscopes and compound microscopes abound.

c. Any of various instruments using radiation of a shorter wavelength than visible light to provide greater magnification than is possible with the light microscope, allowing the investigation of ultrastructure. Chiefly with distinguishing word, indicating the radiation source.acoustic, electron, field emission, scanning electron, transmission electron microscope, etc.: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope > electron microscopes

microscope1907

electron microscope1932

field emission microscope1941

field ion microscope1952

scanning electron microscope1953

SEM1968

stereoscan1968

transmission electron microscope1969

STM1982

1907 Science 9 Aug. 180/2 Within two years he [sc. Köhler] was able..to publish numerous plates showing the remarkable performances of this new ultra-violet microscope.

1927 G. L. Clark Appl. X-rays i. 5 The ultraviolet microscope..discloses a fine structure which appears perfectly homogeneous under visible light rays.

1939 Electronics & Television & Short-wave World 12 637/3 The electron source..might be made completely independent from the microscope.

1957 Duncomb & Cosslett in V. E. Cosslett et al. X-ray Microsc. & Microradiogr. 374 The purpose of the microscope is to form a picture of a surface by its X-ray emission and to analyze the elements in a selected volume of about one cubic micron in the surface by the characteristic lines emitted.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VIII. 371/2 In the electron, proton, x-ray, and β-ray microscopes, the image is usually recorded on a fluorescent screen or is photographed.

1975 Science 30 May 905/1 A scanning acoustic microscope based on acoustic radiation with this short wavelength has now been developed.

1989 New Scientist 18 Nov. 21/1 This is the closest step yet towards the goal of sequencing DNA with a scanning probe microscope.

1991 Pop. Sci. May 20/1 They have used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to take detailed pictures showing both the deposition and stripping of copper atoms.

II. Extended uses.

2. In figurative uses. Frequently in under the microscope: subject to close scrutiny; also to put under the microscope.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [noun]

examininga1325

examinationa1450

examine1494

examen1502

scanning1560

scrutation1593

scrutiny1604

pervestigation1610

microscope1671

introspectiona1676

scan1706

bolting1771

conning1823

grubbing1831

vivisection1880

searchlight1891

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 57 Many a fair Edifice..(so well I have dispos'd My Aerie Microscope) thou may'st behold Outside and inside both.

1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 225 The Critic Eye, that microscope of wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit.

1765 J. Boswell Jrnl. 1 Jan. in Boswell on Grand Tour (1953) I. 304 There are few men who can keep their glory when they are examined under the microscope.

1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 150 Watching the thoughts of men and angels Through moral microscopes.

1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance ix. 83 If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitable tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again.

1903 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 7/1 The Board would work..under the microscope of a Committee of Censure.

1929 Amer. Speech 4 188 If one should put the new meaning under the microscope, the following explanation might appear. That meaning of momentarily which is described by the N.E.D. in its definition no. 2, brings into mind a series of moments one after the other... But in the new meaning..one of them is to become of greater importance than the others.

1968 Economist 13 July p. xviii/2 American motor insurance is now to be put under the microscope.

1992 Rugby World & Post Mar. 41/1 We all know that we are under the microscope after various events in the past, but I think we can control ourselves.

3. Astronomy. With the and capital initial. (The English name of) the constellation Microscopium. Chiefly as a conscious translation.

ΚΠ

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 188/2 Microscopium, (the Microscope), a constellation of Lacaille, situated above Grus and Indus at the junction of Capricornus and Sagittarius.

1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 14/1 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille..introduced the following new constellations:—..Microscopium (Microscope).

1987 P. Moore Astron. Encycl. 254/3 Microscopium (the Microscope), a small southern constellation, adjoining Grus.

Compounds

General attributive.

† microscope glass n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1753 N.Y. Gaz. & Weekly Post-boy 21 May 3/3 (advt.) Grinds all sorts of Optic Glasses.., such as Microscope Glasses, Spying Glasses of all Lengths.

1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 67 Mr. Baker now returns the microscope glasses, which the Royal Society did him the honour to refer to his examination.

microscope maker n.

ΚΠ

1858 Househ. Words 11 Dec. 27/1 French microscope-makers.

1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 429 Dr. Hagen has so little to say of American microscope makers.

1941 Science 3 Jan. p. ix (caption) C. A. Spencer, the first American microscope maker.

1965 Science 20 Aug. 806 (advt.) A German microscope-maker named Carl Zeiss.

microscope objective n.

ΚΠ

1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 428 All the exhibitors of microscope objectives.

1901 Photogr. Jrnl. July 324 Remarkably perfect microscope objectives—the Abbe apochromats.

1944 C. P. Shillaber Photomicrogr. in Theory & Pract. iii. 234 As a rule parfocalization can be attained for all microscope objectives except those of great focal length.

1961 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 260 476 Even an oil immersion microscope objective can be used for observations.

1998 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 1417/1 A water-immersion microscope objective.

microscope slide n.

ΚΠ

1876 Proc. Royal Soc. 1875–6 24 376 My collection of Crustacea and the microscope-slides of the larvæ.

1884 G. Allen Philistia I. 198 Looking up from the microscope slides she had begun to mount.

1951 W. S. Bullough Pract. Invertebr. Anat. xviii. 391 They are then ready to be..mounted in canada balsam on a microscope slide.

1994 New Yorker 19 Sept. 58/1 Holmes's paragraphs teem with life, like a cell culture on a microscope slide.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

microscopev.

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪkrəskəʊp/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪkrəˌskoʊp/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: microscope n.

Etymology: < microscope n. Compare earlier microscoping n., microscopize v.

rare.

transitive. To examine, expose, or render as if by means of a microscope; to scrutinize minutely; to magnify. Also: to minimize, reduce in scale or importance. Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > magnify [verb (transitive)]

magnifya1631

multiply1647

microscope1888

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)]

through-seekOE

gropea1250

to search outa1382

ensearch1382

boltc1386

examinea1387

ransackc1390

ripea1400

search1409

overreach?a1425

considerc1425

perquirec1460

examec1480

peruse?1520

grounda1529

study1528

oversearch1532

perscrute1536

scrute1536

to go over ——1537

scan1548

examinate1560

rifle1566

to consider of1569

excuss1570

ripe1573

sift1573

sift1577

to pry into ——1581

dive1582

rub1591

explore1596

pervestigate1610

dissecta1631

profound1643

circumspect1667

scrutinize1671

perscrutatea1679

introspect1683

rummage1690

reconnoitre1740

scrutinate1742

to look through1744

scrutiny1755

parse1788

gun1819

cat-haul1840

vivisect1876

scour1882

microscope1888

tooth-comb1893

X-ray1896

comb1904

fine-tooth comb1949

1888 T. De W. Talmage in Voice (N.Y.) 6 Sept. He talked against you. He microscoped your faults.

1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 206 He looked much more likely to spring upon her unawares, and microscope her.

1926 Sci. Monthly Mar. 189/2 In American we were microscoping the four-million-year ancestry of the horses.

1967 Punch 4 Oct. 521/1 600 jumbo pages microscoping a single family out of one hundred selected for this treatment.

1991 E. Lax Woody Allen v. 290 The result is that Woody's life and work have microscoped. The acquisition of his editing room and screening room in 1979 allowed him to do all things connected with assembling his films in one place.

1999 N.Y. Times 22 Aug. ii. 28/2 The Hip-Hop Nation reconfigures American geography with a Saul Steinberg-like eye, maximizing cities where the most important hip-hop has come from, microscoping other places.

Derivatives

ˈmicroscoped adj. minutely selected.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [adjective] > scrutinized

well-examined1581

exploratea1628

well-studied1842

microscoped1889

1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 87 The specialist's literature of microscoped minutiae.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	microscope
释义	microscopen. Brit. /ˈmʌɪkrəskəʊp/, U.S. /ˈmaɪkrəˌskoʊp/ Forms: 1600s mycroscop, 1600s mycroscope, 1600s– microscope. Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian microscopio. Etymology: < Italian microscopio (J. Faber 1625: see Let. 13 Apr. in Galileo Opere (1903) XIII. 264), apparently < post-classical Latin microscopium (attributed to Demiscianus 1614) < micro- micro- comb. form + -scopium (in telescopium telescope n.). Compare French microscope (1656), German †Mikroskopium (1687), Mikroskop (early 19th cent.), Spanish microscopio (1709). Compare -scope comb. form and discussion at that entry. I. Technical uses. 1. a. An optical instrument used to view very small objects, typically consisting of an arrangement of lenses that provide a magnification of several hundred times. Also called light microscope, optical microscope.An instrument with a single lens is more usually known as a magnifier or magnifying glass.comparison, compound, phase contrast, polarization microscope, etc.: see the first element.For an account of the history and development of the microscope see e.g. G. L'E. Turner Micrographia Historica (1972); S. Bradbury Evol. Microscope (1967). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope glass1646 microscope1648 engyscope1685 engyscope1832 X-ray microscope1948 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. xvi. 115 We see what strange discoveries of extream minute bodies, (as lice, wheal-worms, mites, and the like) are made by the Microscope, wherein their severall parts (which are altogether invisible to the bare eye) will distinctly appear. 1651 N. Highmore Hist. Generation viii. 70 The white circle..by a Microscope appears now to be the Carina or back and neck of the Chick. 1662 S. Patrick Brief Acct. Latitude-men 21 The severall discoveries we are beholden to the new invented microscope for. 1678 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 233 Pollishing glasses for prospectives and spectackles and mycroscops. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 244 The Effects of Prejudice..are the same with those of Microscopes. 1742 H. Baker Microscope made Easy ii. xxv. 201 The minute Spiders appear very agreeable in the Microscope. 1778 F. Burney Early Jrnls. (1955) 189 The very Soul, & all it's most secret recesses..are..laid as open to the View, as the blood Globules circulating in a frog's foot, when seen thro' a Microscope. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 436 When we examine the human Louse with the microscope, its external deformity strikes us with disgust. 1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 333 Under the microscope, the cells of the intima and of the middle and external coats were found to be considerably increased in number. 1926 W. Lewis Art of being Ruled i. ii. 13 Our life and personality, viewed as science obliges us to, is not humanly true or personally useful, any more than is the scarified, repellent picture of our skin under the microscope. 1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) ii. 56 After dissection from their hosts such parasites are examined under a microscope in Ringer's solution. 1976 Beano 13 Mar. 13 I'll have a close look at the germs through my microscope. 1993 Ontario Hog Farmer Q. Mag. Aug. 13/1 The company offers all the supplies you need—from bottles, beakers and extenders to coolers and microscopes. b. Any of various devices used to project images of very small objects. Chiefly with distinguishing word indicating the source of light used in the device, as lucernal microscope, oxyhydrogen microscope, solar microscope. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for projecting image > [noun] > magic lantern magic lantern1696 solar microscope1743 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope > other microscopes lucernal microscope1743 gas microscope1833 oxyhydrogen microscope1839 binocular1871 orthostereoscope1892 pseudostereoscope1892 ultramicroscope1906 acoustic microscope1910 hodoscope1915 optical microscope1928 light microscope1934 comparison microscope1940 phase microscope1946 stereomicroscope1962 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > magic lantern > types of lucernal microscope1743 megascope1831 oxyhydrogen microscope1839 physioscope1844 aphengescope1869 sciopticon1870 stereopticon1875 anarithmoscope1882 tri-unial1891 triple1892 episcope1909 1743 Boston Gaz. 27 Dec. 2/2 Now to be Seen in a large commodious Room at the House of Mr. Browne in Kingstreet, Boston , The Solar or Camera Obscura Microscope, Invented by the ingenious Mr. Liberkhun. 1787 G. Adams Ess. Microscope 65 This [sc. lucernal] microscope was originally thought of, and in part executed by my father. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 725 The improved lucernal microscope. a1830 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) III. 470/2 The solar microscope differs entirely..from those above described. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 188/2 A few achromatic glasses for oxy-hydrogen microscopes have been made. 1865 (title) Directions for the use of the magic lantern, dissolving view apparatus, and oxy-hydrogen microscope, etc. 1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 381 A short exhibition with the oxy-hydrogen microscope was given, in addition to the use of more than fifty table microscopes. 1930 Science 29 Aug. 212/2 The lucernal was a simple compact form of projection microscope which could be conveniently demonstrated to a number of people at the same time. 1995 Independent 21 Oct. (Weekend section) 22/2 This is also the microscopist's spiritual home—solar microscopes, lucernal microscopes and compound microscopes abound. c. Any of various instruments using radiation of a shorter wavelength than visible light to provide greater magnification than is possible with the light microscope, allowing the investigation of ultrastructure. Chiefly with distinguishing word, indicating the radiation source.acoustic, electron, field emission, scanning electron, transmission electron microscope, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > microscope > electron microscopes microscope1907 electron microscope1932 field emission microscope1941 field ion microscope1952 scanning electron microscope1953 SEM1968 stereoscan1968 transmission electron microscope1969 STM1982 1907 Science 9 Aug. 180/2 Within two years he [sc. Köhler] was able..to publish numerous plates showing the remarkable performances of this new ultra-violet microscope. 1927 G. L. Clark Appl. X-rays i. 5 The ultraviolet microscope..discloses a fine structure which appears perfectly homogeneous under visible light rays. 1939 Electronics & Television & Short-wave World 12 637/3 The electron source..might be made completely independent from the microscope. 1957 Duncomb & Cosslett in V. E. Cosslett et al. X-ray Microsc. & Microradiogr. 374 The purpose of the microscope is to form a picture of a surface by its X-ray emission and to analyze the elements in a selected volume of about one cubic micron in the surface by the characteristic lines emitted. 1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VIII. 371/2 In the electron, proton, x-ray, and β-ray microscopes, the image is usually recorded on a fluorescent screen or is photographed. 1975 Science 30 May 905/1 A scanning acoustic microscope based on acoustic radiation with this short wavelength has now been developed. 1989 New Scientist 18 Nov. 21/1 This is the closest step yet towards the goal of sequencing DNA with a scanning probe microscope. 1991 Pop. Sci. May 20/1 They have used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to take detailed pictures showing both the deposition and stripping of copper atoms. II. Extended uses. 2. In figurative uses. Frequently in under the microscope: subject to close scrutiny; also to put under the microscope. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [noun] examininga1325 examinationa1450 examine1494 examen1502 scanning1560 scrutation1593 scrutiny1604 pervestigation1610 microscope1671 introspectiona1676 scan1706 bolting1771 conning1823 grubbing1831 vivisection1880 searchlight1891 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 57 Many a fair Edifice..(so well I have dispos'd My Aerie Microscope) thou may'st behold Outside and inside both. View more context for this quotation 1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 225 The Critic Eye, that microscope of wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit. 1765 J. Boswell Jrnl. 1 Jan. in Boswell on Grand Tour (1953) I. 304 There are few men who can keep their glory when they are examined under the microscope. 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 150 Watching the thoughts of men and angels Through moral microscopes. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance ix. 83 If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitable tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 7/1 The Board would work..under the microscope of a Committee of Censure. 1929 Amer. Speech 4 188 If one should put the new meaning under the microscope, the following explanation might appear. That meaning of momentarily which is described by the N.E.D. in its definition no. 2, brings into mind a series of moments one after the other... But in the new meaning..one of them is to become of greater importance than the others. 1968 Economist 13 July p. xviii/2 American motor insurance is now to be put under the microscope. 1992 Rugby World & Post Mar. 41/1 We all know that we are under the microscope after various events in the past, but I think we can control ourselves. 3. Astronomy. With the and capital initial. (The English name of) the constellation Microscopium. Chiefly as a conscious translation. ΚΠ 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 188/2 Microscopium, (the Microscope), a constellation of Lacaille, situated above Grus and Indus at the junction of Capricornus and Sagittarius. 1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 14/1 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille..introduced the following new constellations:—..Microscopium (Microscope). 1987 P. Moore Astron. Encycl. 254/3 Microscopium (the Microscope), a small southern constellation, adjoining Grus. Compounds General attributive. † microscope glass n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1753 N.Y. Gaz. & Weekly Post-boy 21 May 3/3 (advt.) Grinds all sorts of Optic Glasses.., such as Microscope Glasses, Spying Glasses of all Lengths. 1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 67 Mr. Baker now returns the microscope glasses, which the Royal Society did him the honour to refer to his examination. microscope maker n. ΚΠ 1858 Househ. Words 11 Dec. 27/1 French microscope-makers. 1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 429 Dr. Hagen has so little to say of American microscope makers. 1941 Science 3 Jan. p. ix (caption) C. A. Spencer, the first American microscope maker. 1965 Science 20 Aug. 806 (advt.) A German microscope-maker named Carl Zeiss. microscope objective n. ΚΠ 1870 Amer. Naturalist 4 428 All the exhibitors of microscope objectives. 1901 Photogr. Jrnl. July 324 Remarkably perfect microscope objectives—the Abbe apochromats. 1944 C. P. Shillaber Photomicrogr. in Theory & Pract. iii. 234 As a rule parfocalization can be attained for all microscope objectives except those of great focal length. 1961 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 260 476 Even an oil immersion microscope objective can be used for observations. 1998 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 1417/1 A water-immersion microscope objective. microscope slide n. ΚΠ 1876 Proc. Royal Soc. 1875–6 24 376 My collection of Crustacea and the microscope-slides of the larvæ. 1884 G. Allen Philistia I. 198 Looking up from the microscope slides she had begun to mount. 1951 W. S. Bullough Pract. Invertebr. Anat. xviii. 391 They are then ready to be..mounted in canada balsam on a microscope slide. 1994 New Yorker 19 Sept. 58/1 Holmes's paragraphs teem with life, like a cell culture on a microscope slide. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). microscopev. Brit. /ˈmʌɪkrəskəʊp/, U.S. /ˈmaɪkrəˌskoʊp/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: microscope n. Etymology: < microscope n. Compare earlier microscoping n., microscopize v. rare. transitive. To examine, expose, or render as if by means of a microscope; to scrutinize minutely; to magnify. Also: to minimize, reduce in scale or importance. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > magnify [verb (transitive)] magnifya1631 multiply1647 microscope1888 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)] through-seekOE gropea1250 to search outa1382 ensearch1382 boltc1386 examinea1387 ransackc1390 ripea1400 search1409 overreach?a1425 considerc1425 perquirec1460 examec1480 peruse?1520 grounda1529 study1528 oversearch1532 perscrute1536 scrute1536 to go over ——1537 scan1548 examinate1560 rifle1566 to consider of1569 excuss1570 ripe1573 sift1573 sift1577 to pry into ——1581 dive1582 rub1591 explore1596 pervestigate1610 dissecta1631 profound1643 circumspect1667 scrutinize1671 perscrutatea1679 introspect1683 rummage1690 reconnoitre1740 scrutinate1742 to look through1744 scrutiny1755 parse1788 gun1819 cat-haul1840 vivisect1876 scour1882 microscope1888 tooth-comb1893 X-ray1896 comb1904 fine-tooth comb1949 1888 T. De W. Talmage in Voice (N.Y.) 6 Sept. He talked against you. He microscoped your faults. 1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 206 He looked much more likely to spring upon her unawares, and microscope her. 1926 Sci. Monthly Mar. 189/2 In American we were microscoping the four-million-year ancestry of the horses. 1967 Punch 4 Oct. 521/1 600 jumbo pages microscoping a single family out of one hundred selected for this treatment. 1991 E. Lax Woody Allen v. 290 The result is that Woody's life and work have microscoped. The acquisition of his editing room and screening room in 1979 allowed him to do all things connected with assembling his films in one place. 1999 N.Y. Times 22 Aug. ii. 28/2 The Hip-Hop Nation reconfigures American geography with a Saul Steinberg-like eye, maximizing cities where the most important hip-hop has come from, microscoping other places. Derivatives ˈmicroscoped adj. minutely selected. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [adjective] > scrutinized well-examined1581 exploratea1628 well-studied1842 microscoped1889 1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 87 The specialist's literature of microscoped minutiae. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1648v.1888
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