| 单词 | optic tube |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoptic tube optic tube n. now historical or archaic a telescope; also figurative. ΚΠ 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert v. ii. 16 Others with Optick Tubes the Moons scant face..Attract through Glasses. a1781 R. Jago Edge-hill i, in Poems (1784) 33 Her piercing eye extends beyond the reach Of optic tube, levell'd by midnight sage, At the moon's disk. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vi. 38 Survey With optic tubes, the systems circling round. 1930 H. T. Stetson Man & Stars vi. 55 The elders of that day refused to look through Galileo's optic tube to see the moons of Jupiter. 1962 B. Blackstone Lost Travellers 82 Armed with the optic tube of ‘indigence’, the purified senses behold concrete existence. optic tube 3. An optical instrument of tubular form, esp. a telescope: more fully optic tube. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [noun] > telescope trunk1610 trunk-glass1613 trunk-spectacle1613 telescope1619 tube1651 field glass1782 look-see1925 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert v. ii. 16 Others with Optick Tubes the Moons scant face..Attract through Glasses. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 4 Dec. (1976) IX. 384 Wrote a letter at the Board, by the help of a tube, to Lord Brouncker. 1669 S. Pepys Diary 14 Mar. (1976) IX. 482 My eyes being very bad; and..I forced to find a way to use by turns with my tube, one after another. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 490 Of his fair Deeds a distant View I took; But turn'd the Tube upon his Faults to look. 1781 W. Cowper Charity 387 Some grave optician..finds that though his tubes assist the sight, They cannot give it. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 262 On the tall decks their curious chiefs explore, With optic tube, our camp-encumber'd shore. 1867 G. Gilfillan Night iv. 116 To the silent tube in Herschel's hand A hundred suns spring up. < as lemmas |
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