English word senses marked with topical category "Eyewear"

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Subcategories: Glasses

Total 79 word senses

• BCG (Noun) Initialism of birth control glasses.
• Galilean binoculars (Noun) opera glasses
• Groucho glasses (Noun) A novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.
• Harry Potter glasses (Noun) A pair of spectacles (glasses) with round lenses.
• Harry Potter spectacles (Noun) Synonym of Harry Potter glasses.
• I lost my glasses (Phrase) Indicates that the speaker has lost his or her glasses.
• John Lennon glasses (Noun) A pair of eyeglasses (spectacles) with round lenses.
• John Lennon spectacles (Noun) A pair of spectacles (glasses) with round lenses.
• Kanye glasses (Noun) A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.
• Mr. Magoo glasses (Noun) Extremely thick eyewear or the thick frames necessary to support them, particularly eyewear with thick black circular frames.
• autocuer (Noun) A device for the deaf, consisting of a pair of eyeglasses with LEDs attached, used to convert speech into visual patterns for the wearer.
• aviator glasses (Noun) Synonym of aviator sunglasses
• aviator shades (Noun) Synonym of aviator sunglasses
• aviator sunglasses (Noun) A style of sunglasses with dark, often reflective lenses and very thin metal frames.
• aviators (Noun) aviator sunglasses
• beaglepuss (Noun) A novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.
• bespectacled (Adjective) Wearing spectacles (glasses).
• bifocals (Noun) Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.
• binocles-ciseaux (Noun) Synonym of scissors-glasses
• birth control glasses (Noun) The brown-framed prescription eyeglasses issued to new recruits in the U.S. military, and perceived as notoriously unattractive.
• blinkers (Noun) Spectacles.
• cat-eye (Noun) Alternative form of cat's eye (“glass marble with colourful inclusions”)
• circle contact lens (Noun) A cosmetic contact lens that makes the eyes' irises appear larger, popular in East Asia.
• contact lens (Noun) A thin lens, made of flexible or rigid plastic, that is placed directly on to the eye to correct vision, used as an alternative to spectacles, or, if coloured, to change one's eye color cosmetically.
• cooling glasses (Noun) Sunglasses.
• corrective lens (Noun) A lens worn in front of the eye to correct disorders of the vision such as myopia.
• domino mask (Noun) A small, often rounded mask covering only the eyes and the space between them.
• eye patch (Noun) An opaque patch worn so as to cover an injured or infected eye or an eye socket in order to protect or conceal it, or to treat amblyopia in children.
• eyeglass (Noun) A monocle.
• eyeglasses (Noun) Spectacles, glasses.
• eyepro (Noun) Eye protection; protective eyewear.
• eyewear (Noun) A vision aid or similar device worn over the eyes, such as eyeglasses, contact lenses, or protective goggles.
• flyaway spectacles (Noun) A style of spectacles or sunglasses, popular in the 1950s, having approximately oval thick frames with wing-like protrusions at the top outer edges.
• four-eyed (Adjective) Wearing spectacles.
• four-eyes (Noun) A person who wears spectacles.
• gallery (Noun) A part of a monocle–a projection off the ring holding the lens–which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.
• glasses (Noun) Spectacles, frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes.
• goggle (Noun) A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye.
• goggle (Noun) A pair of protective eyeglasses.
• goggles (Noun) Glasses; spectacles.
• granny specs (Noun) A pair of spectacles with round lenses in a light metal frame.
• hipster glasses (Noun) Plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by members of the hipster and nerd subcultures.
• horn-rimmed (Adjective) Having the frames made from horn or tortoiseshell or a material that resembles it, and characterized by their bold appearance on the wearer's face, in contrast to metal frames, which appear less pronounced.
• lunettes (Noun) A particular kind of spectacles/glasses, consisting of two circles lenses connected by a half-circle bridge over the nose.
• meganekko (Noun) A female fictional character whose charm or attractiveness derives largely from wearing glasses.
• monocle (Noun) A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.
• nerd glasses (Noun) Plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by nerds and members of the hipster subculture.
• pair of eyeglasses (Noun) A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.
• pair of glasses (Noun) A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.
• pair of goggles (Noun) Protective eyewear consisting of two lenses set in a flexible frame to fit snugly against the face.
• pair of shades (Noun) sunglasses
• pair of specs (Noun) A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.
• pair of spectacles (Noun) A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.
• pair of spectacles (Noun) Synonym of pair (“score of zero runs in both innings”)
• pair of sunglasses (Noun) A pair of glasses with tinted lenses designed to protect the eyes from sunlight.
• pince-nez (Noun) temple-less eyeglasses that clip to the bridge of the nose
• prescription glasses (Noun) Glasses made for a specific user; corrective spectacles.
• problem glasses (Noun) Women's-style glasses (prescription or not) that are interpreted as signaling a prissy demeanor, especially ones that point upwards and outwards or have colorful frames.
• readers (Noun) Reading glasses
• reading glasses (Noun) Any type of spectacles intended chiefly to deal with the effects of presbyopia by magnifying details such as fine text.
• rose-colored glasses (Noun) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rose-colored, glasses.
• scissors-glasses (Noun) eyeglasses with scissoring stems, used for distance vision
• shades (Noun) Sunglasses.
• shooting glasses (Noun) A type of impact-resistant eyewear worn by shooters to prevent injury due to a cartridge or gun malfunction blowing hot gas or metal particles into the shooter's face.
• shutter shades (Noun) A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.
• smartglasses (Noun) Glasses worn to provide software functions through augmented reality.
• specs (Noun) Abbreviation of spectacles.
• spectacled (Adjective) Wearing spectacles.
• spectacles (Noun) A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.
• spectacles (Noun) Synonym of pair (“score of zero runs in both innings”)
• sunglasses (Noun) Tinted glasses worn to protect the eyes from the sun or other bright light. May also be worn as a fashion accessory.
• sunnies (Noun) Sunglasses.
• sunwear (Noun) sunglasses (as a clothing category in retail)
• tea shades (Noun) A pair of tinted eyeglasses (spectacles) with circular lenses.
• trifocals (Noun) Spectacles with corrective lenses that have three different powers per eye.
• unbespectacled (Adjective) Not wearing spectacles.
• unspectacled (Adjective) Not wearing spectacles.
• varifocals (Noun) Spectacles having varifocal lenses.
• wayfarers (Noun) A pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarer glasses.

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