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鏡 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fingerboard noun A mostly flat piece running along an instrument's neck against which a player presses the strings to shorten them and so raise their pitch.
  • lens noun A curved piece of glass or plastic that bends light to focus or spread it out, used in glasses, cameras, and telescopes.
  • lentil noun A small, disc-shaped edible seed from a legume plant, commonly dried and used in soups and stews.
  • riser noun Someone who gets out of bed, especially described by how early or late.

Senses

鏡 is used for these senses in English:

  • fingerboard (music, lutherie) A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.
  • lens A device which focuses or defocuses electron beams.
  • lentil Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
  • riser (carpentry) A vertical part of a step on a staircase.

fingerboard — full definition

  1. noun A mostly flat piece running along an instrument's neck against which a player presses the strings to shorten them and so raise their pitch.
  2. noun A miniature skateboard or snowboard that a person moves and controls with their fingers.

lens — full definition

  1. noun A curved piece of glass or plastic that bends light to focus or spread it out, used in glasses, cameras, and telescopes.
  2. noun The clear part inside the eye that focuses light onto the retina.
  3. noun A particular way of looking at or interpreting something.
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