Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oxford: Lense, Old English, first cited c 1156 AD, to make lean, to cleanse > From: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com> > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:43:18 -0800 > Subject: RE: [Leica] Lens / Lense > > Interesting. I looked on onelook.com, and got the following hits: > > From Variety magazine slang: > > lense -- to film a motion picture; "The project will lense in Rome and New > York." > > From the Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms: > > lense > > Pyrite, round or oval in plan and lenticular in section, ranging up to 2 > to 3 ft (0.6 to 0.9 m) in thickness and several hundred feet in the > greatest lateral dimension, that is found in coalbeds. Sometimes called > kidney sulfur. Mitchell > > And in the Mirriam-Webster online dictionary, it is listed as you posted - > as a variant of lens. I will withdraw my objection (but not very > graciously). Thinketh ye notte that itt looketh dumbe? > > Paul > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jim Brick [mailto:jimbrick@photoaccess.com] >> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 5:34 PM >> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> Subject: [Leica] Lens / Lense >> >> >> Webster: >> >> Main Entry: 1lens >> Variant(s): also lense /'lenz/ >> >> Function: noun >> Etymology: New Latin lent-, lens, from Latin, lentil; from its shape >> Date: 1693 >> >> 1 a : a piece of transparent material (as glass) that has two >> opposite regular >> surfaces either both curved or one curved and the other plane >> and that is used >> either singly or combined in an optical instrument for >> forming an image by >> focusing rays of light >>