lens
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5.7
- noun
- /lɛnz/
- The principle of koinonia is an important lens through which to understand salvation.
- a theoretical lens
- a critical lens
- use the lens
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Watch on YouTubeIt's just they can't because their lens is different, right?
- It's just they can't because their lens is different, right?
- And if you see through that lens, it's shocking.
- Understanding through a new lens what their behavior is.
- But when you see it from our lens, we just see dead people walking.
- And he says, but the world hasn't heard what your lens on Tokyo is.
- But I don't think of that through the lens of anxiety.
- So he's giving us a lens into how things are are going.
- Because it's putting a mystical lens on the natural human condition.
- Like you actually choose the lens through which your emotions hit you.
- Information allows us to construct a lens for seeing the world.
- So just, you know, apply a skeptical lens to what they're saying.
- And I think you're going to relish his unique lens on sport.
- Do you do yours to the lens I was in.
- We see life through a lens that civilians do not.
- And so that's the way we, that's the lens that we see it at.
Examples
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But we do have to look at it through the lens of health and environment.
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Focus groups of six to ten students offer the researcher/practitioner a lens into respondents' experiences and feelings.
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But when you see it from our lens, we just see dead people walking.
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If you build systems with an equity lens, everybody benefits.
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As I mentioned, policy is too narrow a lens by which the situation can be seen.
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Through this self-reflection, we become aware of the lens through which we view ourselves and our students.
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By viewing military policy through the lens of socioeconomics, a more complete picture is possible.
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Understandably, courts want jurors to use their personal experience as a lens through which to view the evidence.
Academic text (2017) -
School restructuring efforts have also been studied through the lens of transformational leadership.
Academic text (2008) -
We should analyze this issue through the lens of social justice.
Synonyms
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4.1
A way of thinking shaped by your beliefs or experiences
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4.1
A person's way of thinking about something
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1.2
An act of looking carefully at something
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6.0
Looking at something from a certain point of view
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6.6
A way of looking at things based on past experiences
Idioms
Compounds
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4.0
A camera lens that shows more of a scene, makes near objects look bigger, and stretches edges
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3.7
A camera lens that lets you make distant objects appear nearer without changing lenses
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4.4
An attachment that fits the front of a camera lens to block stray light and protect it
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3.9
The lens nearest the object in a microscope or telescope that makes the main image
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3.9
A curved piece of clear glass or plastic that focuses light in cameras and microscopes
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4.4
A clear part behind the colored part of the eye that focuses light on the back of the eye
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1
5.4
A camera part with a wide opening that blurs backgrounds for photos of people
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8.6
A thin lens made of rings that focuses light for lighthouses and projectors
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4.2
A curved piece of glass or plastic that helps you see things more clearly in instruments
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1
4.2
A group of curved glass parts that bend light to make images, for example in cameras or microscopes
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6.9
A lens made of more than one part that reduces color blur in camera images
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3.9
A system of several lenses lined up to make images clearer or larger
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4.1
A clear artificial lens placed in the eye to replace a cloudy natural lens after cataract surgery
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4.6
A small clear plastic piece put in the eye to replace the part that focuses light after cataract surgery
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7.3
A curved piece of glass at the far end of devices like binoculars or microscopes that gives a wider view
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1
4.6
A lens that is thinner in the middle than at the edges and makes parallel light rays spread out
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A clear curved part behind the colored part of the eye that focuses light onto the back of the eye
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1
4.4
A very small glass piece that makes tiny things look bigger in a microscope
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A small glass piece you attach to a camera to focus on objects close to the camera
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A lens made from a kind of clear glass that gives sharp images with little color blur
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A lens that makes parallel light rays spread out after passing through it
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A device that uses electric or magnetic fields to focus a beam of electrons
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A small artificial lens placed in the eye that moves to help you see near and far
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A lens that makes images sharp across the whole picture without distortion
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A plant grown for lentils, with edible seeds and leaves used as animal feed
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An artificial lens with one focus placed in the eye to give clear distance vision after cataract surgery
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An artificial device put in the eye that helps you see near and far without glasses
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A clear artificial lens placed inside the eye to replace the natural lens after cataract surgery
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The curved piece of glass in a microscope or telescope nearest the object that makes the first image
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Lens is used for a 'way of seeing' because people compared it to the glass lens that changes how we see things, and that glass took its name from the Latin lens meaning 'lentil'. So looking through a 'lens' means seeing with a particular view or idea.