"lens grinder" meaning in Englisch

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the lens grinder",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "the lens grinder",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "lens grind·er",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Wikipedia-Artikel „en:Baruch Spinoza“",
          "text": "Spinoza lived quietly as a lens grinder, turning down rewards and honors throughout his life, including prestigious teaching positions, and gave his family inheritance to his sister.",
          "translation": "Spinoza lebte ruhig als Linsenschleifer, wies alle Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen sein ganzes Leben hindurch ab, einschließlich angesehener Lehrpositionen, und gab sein Familienerbe seiner Schwester."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Wikipedia-Artikel „en:Godfrey Lundberg“",
          "text": "Alvin H. Hankins, a jeweler and lens grinder that knew Lundberg and eventually was his employer in Seattle, was present during most of the engraving.",
          "translation": "Alvin H. Hankins, ein Juwelier und Linsenschleifer, der Lundberg kannte und später dann auch sein Arbeitgeber in Seattle war, war während der meisten Zeit des Gravierens anwesend."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Let's raise a glass to the early innovators of today's telescopes von Dr. Kent Mountford",
          "text": "He [Thomas Harriot] had seen the same reports on the Dutch perspective glass that Galileo did, and hired Christopher Tooke as a lens grinder from 1605 onward."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Islam, the Greeks and the Scientific Revolution, part 3, Fjordman - 10/9/2007",
          "text": "In the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, Baruch Spinoza could make a decent living as a skilled lens grinder while working on his philosophical theories.",
          "translation": "In den Niederlanden des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts konnte Baruch Spinoza ganz gut von seiner Tätigkeit als erfahrener Linsenschleifer leben, während er an seinen philosophischen Theorien arbeitete."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Person, die optische Linsen aus Glas schleift"
      ],
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      "raw_tags": [
        "Beruf"
      ],
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    {
      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Beruf: Person, die optische Linsen aus Glas schleift",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Linsenschleifer"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lens grinder"
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    "siehe auch"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the lens grinder",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "the lens grinder",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "lens grind·er",
  "lang": "Englisch",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Wikipedia-Artikel „en:Baruch Spinoza“",
          "text": "Spinoza lived quietly as a lens grinder, turning down rewards and honors throughout his life, including prestigious teaching positions, and gave his family inheritance to his sister.",
          "translation": "Spinoza lebte ruhig als Linsenschleifer, wies alle Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen sein ganzes Leben hindurch ab, einschließlich angesehener Lehrpositionen, und gab sein Familienerbe seiner Schwester."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Wikipedia-Artikel „en:Godfrey Lundberg“",
          "text": "Alvin H. Hankins, a jeweler and lens grinder that knew Lundberg and eventually was his employer in Seattle, was present during most of the engraving.",
          "translation": "Alvin H. Hankins, ein Juwelier und Linsenschleifer, der Lundberg kannte und später dann auch sein Arbeitgeber in Seattle war, war während der meisten Zeit des Gravierens anwesend."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Let's raise a glass to the early innovators of today's telescopes von Dr. Kent Mountford",
          "text": "He [Thomas Harriot] had seen the same reports on the Dutch perspective glass that Galileo did, and hired Christopher Tooke as a lens grinder from 1605 onward."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Islam, the Greeks and the Scientific Revolution, part 3, Fjordman - 10/9/2007",
          "text": "In the Netherlands in the seventeenth century, Baruch Spinoza could make a decent living as a skilled lens grinder while working on his philosophical theories.",
          "translation": "In den Niederlanden des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts konnte Baruch Spinoza ganz gut von seiner Tätigkeit als erfahrener Linsenschleifer leben, während er an seinen philosophischen Theorien arbeitete."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Person, die optische Linsen aus Glas schleift"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "Beruf"
      ],
      "sense_index": "1"
    }
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      "lang": "Deutsch",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "Beruf: Person, die optische Linsen aus Glas schleift",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Linsenschleifer"
    }
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  "word": "lens grinder"
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