magnifying glass
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- noun
- Texting
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icono de búsqueda
- If the cursor changes to a magnifying glass, you can click on that spot for a closer look.
Examples
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In this article, we put the magnifying glass on a factor that has been neglected over the decades of research in reading and the learning sciences: moment-to-moment emotions.
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When you see a magnifying glass symbol, it indicates that you can zoom in on the selected area.
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You click on the magnifying glass in Finder, you type what you want, and you find it In File Explorer.
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In this regard, the "monumental" Collected Works project puts Frye under the magnifying glass in a way that allows comparison between him and few other great critics of our time.
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To start your search, click the magnifying glass icon on the top right of the webpage.
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Press the magnifying glass button on your smartphone to access the search feature.
How Magnified
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly built from 'magnify' (to make things look larger) and 'glass' (transparent material), so a learner who knows both words can infer an object used to enlarge/view things. The extension to a UI/search icon is a culturally common metonymy (the object stands for searching) and is widely used across languages, so the meaning remains clearly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
The noun magnifying glass also names the small picture used on websites and apps to start a search. Designers chose the image of a magnifying glass because it shows 'looking closely', so clicking or tapping it means 'search'.