"lens" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was a good instrument, made in Dorp they said, where they are good sailors and grind good lenses.
- (We were good sailors in New Viron, too - or thought we were - but did not grind lenses at all.)
- They can grind lenses.
- Rick tried to concentrate on glasses, but he didn't know anything about how you might grind lenses.
- He grinds lenses for glasses.
- Both men were interested in astronomy, and having learnt from Morton how to grind lenses, Stirling invented several optical instruments.
- He ground lenses in the weak daylight and I watched him, and then I ground mirrors for him (they are easier) as he lectured.
- I could grind lenses and only half needed to be thrown out.
- I have wasted many hours reading memoirs when I should have been grinding lenses for food money.
- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), a Dutch tradesman, learned to grind lenses and assemble them into simple microscopes.
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