"bifocals" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "bifocals pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Navajo terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Glasses",
          "orig": "en:Glasses",
          "parents": [
            "Eyewear",
            "Clothing",
            "Eye",
            "Vision",
            "Human",
            "Face",
            "Senses",
            "All topics",
            "Head and neck",
            "Perception",
            "Fundamental",
            "Body parts",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Two",
          "orig": "en:Two",
          "parents": [
            "Numbers",
            "All topics",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 116",
          "text": "He unfolded a pair of bifocals and thrust them as far up the bridge of his nose as possible.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses."
      ],
      "id": "en-bifocals-en-noun-JCp99R3h",
      "links": [
        [
          "Spectacles",
          "spectacles"
        ],
        [
          "corrective",
          "corrective"
        ],
        [
          "lens",
          "lens"
        ],
        [
          "different",
          "different"
        ],
        [
          "power",
          "power"
        ],
        [
          "distance",
          "distance"
        ],
        [
          "reading",
          "reading"
        ],
        [
          "glasses",
          "glasses"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bifocal"
        },
        {
          "word": "multifocals"
        },
        {
          "word": "trifocals"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
          "word": "kaksiteholasit"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "verres bifocaux"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
          "tags": [
            "masculine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "verres double foyer"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Bifokalbrille"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Zweistärkenbrille"
        },
        {
          "code": "nv",
          "lang": "Navajo",
          "sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
          "word": "nákʼee sinilí naakijįʼ bee hootʼínígíí"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "bifocals"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bifocals"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "bifocals pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bifocal"
    },
    {
      "word": "multifocals"
    },
    {
      "word": "trifocals"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Navajo terms with redundant script codes",
        "en:Glasses",
        "en:Two"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 116",
          "text": "He unfolded a pair of bifocals and thrust them as far up the bridge of his nose as possible.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Spectacles",
          "spectacles"
        ],
        [
          "corrective",
          "corrective"
        ],
        [
          "lens",
          "lens"
        ],
        [
          "different",
          "different"
        ],
        [
          "power",
          "power"
        ],
        [
          "distance",
          "distance"
        ],
        [
          "reading",
          "reading"
        ],
        [
          "glasses",
          "glasses"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "bifocals"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
      "word": "kaksiteholasit"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "verres bifocaux"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "verres double foyer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bifokalbrille"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zweistärkenbrille"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "spectacles with two different powers",
      "word": "nákʼee sinilí naakijįʼ bee hootʼínígíí"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bifocals"
}