Meaning

2 senses
  1. (transitive)To film, shoot.

  2. To become thinner towards the edges.

Examples

43 sentences
  1. I'm looking for my contact lens.

    Я шукаю свою контактну лінзу. — aandrusiak

    ruЯ ищу свои контактные линзы. — odexed

    deIch suche meine Kontaktlinse. — pne

  2. Help me find my contact lens.

    Допоможи мені знайти мої контактні лінзи. — deniko

  3. Tom lost a contact lens.

    Том загубив контактну лінзу. — deniko

    ruТом потерял контактную линзу. — odexed

    deTom verlor eine Kontaktlinse. — bonny37

  4. Tom found my contact lens.

    Том знайшов мої контактні лінзи. — deniko

    ruТом нашёл мои контактные линзы. — sivelock

    deTom hat meine Kontaktlinse gefunden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Tom couldn't find his contact lens.

    ruТом не мог найти свои контактные линзы. — odexed

    deTom konnte seine Kontaktlinse nicht finden. — wolfgangth

Translations

1 languages

Origin

Borrowed from Latin lēns (“lentil”), with Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of “len

Borrowed from Latin lēns (“lentil”), with Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of “lens”, a semantic loan from Arabic عَدَسَة (ʕadasa, “lentil; optic lens”); the similar shape is the common factor.

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Forms

lenses, lensing, lensed, lensed
Base formlens · to lens
3rd person singularlenses
Present participlelensing
Past simplelensed
Past participlelensed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theylens
he, she, itlenses

Past simpleLesson

all personslensed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave lensed
he, she, ithas lensed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill lens

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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