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Man with glasses. A woman with glasses. Glasses, also known as eyeglasses, spectacles, or colloquially as specs, are vision eyewear with clear or tinted lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically utilizing a bridge over the nose and hinged arms, known as temples or temple pieces, that rest over the ears for support.
In a ceremonious context and in connection with a short speech, the English word "toast" may also be used. The Latin word comes from the verb "prodesse" (= "to benefit sth/sb", "to be beneficial"). Consequently, "prosit" is the conjugated form (3rd person Singular, Present Subjunctive, Active) and therefore an optative: "To you/ to your health ...
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
The best reading glasses require great lenses, affordability, and durability. Here, experts explain what to find in a pair, and reviewers recommend their faves. These Stylish, Doctor-Approved ...
Andrew Garfield just became a meme at the 2025 Golden Globes after putting on his reading glasses as he helped announced the winner for best performance by a female actor in a motion picture.
The English idiom "rose-colored glasses" or "rose-tinted glasses" refers to perceiving something more positively than it is in reality (also in German, French, Polish). The Romans occasionally referred to this phenomenon with the Latin phrase " memoria praeteritorum bonorum ", which translates into English roughly as "memory of good past", or ...
This may represent a single-vision lens prescription to improve near work, or the reading portion of a bifocal lens. OD is an abbreviation for oculus dexter, Latin for right eye from the patient's point of view. Oculus means eye. OS is an abbreviation for oculus sinister, Latin for left eye from the patient's point of view.
Dedication (ritual) the ritual or ceremonial establishment of a purpose for a person, place, or thing Dedication of churches; Child dedication, a Christian ceremony; Pariṇāmanā (Sanskrit), commonly rendered in English as Dedication; Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday commemorating the Maccabean Revolt; Dedication stone