lantern slide
- noun
- /ˈlæn.tɚn slaɪd/
- Archaic
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diapositiva de linterna
- During the lecture, the speaker displayed a lantern slide that illustrated the key points of his research.
- lantern slides and pictures
- lantern-slide returns
- projected by lantern slide
Examples
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The museum produced and sold many lantern slide sets, including one called "Okondo's village." (Okondo was an important Mangbetu chief.)
Academic text (1991) -
The professor used a lantern slide to show the class images from the historic expedition.
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Father Kristof's report on the Chinese mission will be with lantern slides.
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In 1907, the presentation of election returns by lantern slide was not a new development.
Academic text (2011) -
In the early exhibitions studied and reported here, pictures were entered in two media: prints and lantern slides.
Academic text (2004) -
Recently, a set of tinted lantern slides turned up that was used by Chapin himself and by others in the education department.
Academic text (1991) -
During this same period, photographic lantern slides began to proliferate and replace the hand-drawn ones often used earlier in the century.
Academic text (2017) -
Aided by a series of lantern slides, Walker's lecture was a visual tour through the history of typography.
Academic text (2017) -
The report specified that the library should collect materials such as maps, pictures, lantern slides, and Victrola records (CLOE 1920, 14).
Academic text (2008) -
At the art gallery, we viewed a collection of lantern slides depicting various landscapes.
Synonyms
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2.4
A single image or page in a presentation
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6.3
A picture on clear film for a projector
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'lantern' (a light/projector) with 'slide' (an image or frame to be shown): it denotes a slide intended for use with a lantern projector. This is a regular noun+noun compositional pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning even if the technology is somewhat dated.
Etymology
Lantern slide: The noun lantern slide comes from old projectors called 'magic lanterns' and the thin framed picture called a slide. A clear photo or drawing was put on a small glass frame and light from the lantern shone through it to make a large image on a wall, so the term means a thin mounted picture made to be projected.