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What does lens mean?
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lens

A lens is a specially shaped piece of glass that is used in cameras or telescopes to bend light.

lens

a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood the writer is the lens through which history can be seen

Lens

genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils

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Simple sentences

Through the lens the image was inverted.
Will you find my contact lens for me?
I'm looking for my contact lens.
Tom lost a contact lens.
She used a zoom lens.
I still haven't found my contact lens.
Tom found my contact lens.
Mary asked me to help her find her contact lens.
Tom found his contact lens near the table.
Tom couldn't find his contact lens.

Movie subtitles

And get me that 2-inch lens.
A lens grinder.
Could you help me find a German lens grinder named Schindler?
We've rigged the epidiascope to reflect whatever the Martian lens picks up.
I've got the proof here in my lens.
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens.
This was made with an ordinary, wide-angle lens.
Concentrating between Arras and Lens, the major said.
Yes, the lens is cracked.
One lens cracked.
Infrared lens.
Red alert for lens pits or other accesses and Selenites.
They've broken through the lens pit.
Their eye is flexible, like a large camera lens. Yes.
Come on, Bill, make it snappy. And get me that 2-inch lens.
No, you've been panting on the lens.
Telephoto lens.
The camera's old, the lens is old.
Afternoon, Jacques. Keep your lens clean.
The lens is broken.
Look into the lens.
It's a lens of some kind.
The telephoto lens.
Well kids, the camera is old, the lens is old, this ain't Hollywood, you know.
Their eye is flexible, like a large camera lens.
Perhaps we can throw a coat over the lens.
And when the lens looks the other way, throw something over it.
No, It's the mud. Wlpe the mud off the lens.
Lens-type, manually operated, light-activated.
Put your hand on the glass, look in the lens.
I used a normal lens at first, but it was ineffective against the intense light that emanates from these beings.
You could use an infrared film, a 25 filter on a 35 mil camera with a telephoto lens and.
That's a German lens.
This is an adaptor, it's not a lens.

News and current affairs

The conventional production function of neoclassical economics offers a dangerously misleading lens through which to interpret the processes of frontier innovation.
CAMBRIDGE - China's current economic woes have largely been viewed through a single lens: the government's failure to let the market operate.
Many broad policy issues are distorted when viewed through a lens that focuses only on domestic inequality and ignores global inequality.
BERKELEY - However bad you think the global economy is today in terms of the business cycle, that is only one lens through which to view the world.
Viewed through the lens of history, the main job of US presidents is to be mature and wise enough to stand up to the permanent war machine.
Viewing economic policies through the lens of learning provides a different perspective on many issues.
His tendency to view Africa through an American lens is thus both understandable and inevitable.
TOULOUSE - For the last half-century, the world's leading universities have taught microeconomics through the lens of the Arrow-Debreu model of general competitive equilibrium.
Yale historian Jonathan Spence has long cautioned that the West tends to view China through the same lens as it sees itself.
And, because women generally expect to bear most of the responsibility for nurturing children, they tend to evaluate social policies through this lens.
The question is whether any US president, Republican or Democrat, would be willing to risk alienating those who still view Taiwan through the lens of its conflict with the People's Republic.
Both books apply to the past the lens that Argentines are accustomed to using when they look at the present: the lens of the press.
But is this really the best lens through which to see China now?
Of course, no single novel provides a perfect lens through which to view any society.
Whenever I have doubts about a potential Chinese policy shift, I examine the options through the stability lens.
The import boom in the United States was much smaller than that on the EU periphery, but the recent downward revision of US GDP can be seen through the same lens.
On the surface, the situation certainly appears worrisome - especially when viewed through the currency lens, which captures shifts in Chinese prices relative to those in the rest of the world.
Panic about terrorism and climate change doesn't blind us entirely to other problems facing the planet, but our fear does distort the lens through which we see the big picture.
Viewing the current conflict between such formidable military powers as Israel and Iran through a similar lens can only breed untold catastrophe.
Much of this debate can be viewed through the lens of American involvement with Iraq.

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