Bude light () A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil. |
Camera (n.) A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura. |
Camera lucida () An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form, or an arrangement of mirrors, causes an apparent image of an external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface, as of paper or canvas, so that the outlines may conveniently traced. It is generally used with the microscope. |
Camera obscura () An apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a darkened chamber, or box, so that the outlines may be traced. |
Camera obscura () An apparatus in which the image of an external object or objects is, by means of lenses, thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface placed at the back of an extensible darkened box or chamber variously modified |
Drummond light () A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition, upon a ball of lime |
Field (n.) Cleared land |
Field (n.) A piece of land of considerable size |
Field (n.) A place where a battle is fought |
Field (n.) An open space |
Field (n.) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected. |
Field (n.) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view. |
Field (n.) The whole surface of an escutcheon |
Field (n.) An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement |
Field (n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting. |
Field (n.) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond |
Field (v. i.) To take the field. |
Field (v. i.) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball. |
Field (v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder. |
Light (n.) That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. |
Light (n.) That which furnishes, or is a source of, light, as the sun, a star, a candle, a lighthouse, etc. |
Light (n.) The time during which the light of the sun is visible |
Light (n.) The brightness of the eye or eyes. |
Light (n.) The medium through which light is admitted, as a window, or window pane |
Light (n.) Life |
Light (n.) Open view |
Light (n.) The power of perception by vision. |
Light (n.) That which illumines or makes clear to the mind |
Light (n.) Prosperity |
Light (n.) The manner in which the light strikes upon a picture |
Light (n.) Appearance due to the particular facts and circumstances presented to view |
Light (n.) One who is conspicuous or noteworthy |
Light (n.) A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame |
Light (superl) Having light |
Light (superl) White or whitish |
Light (n.) To set fire to |
Light (n.) To give light to |
Light (n.) To attend or conduct with a light |
Light (v. i.) To become ignited |
Light (v. i.) To be illuminated |
Light (superl.) Having little, or comparatively little, weight |
Light (superl.) Not burdensome |
Light (superl.) Easy to be endured or performed |
Light (superl.) Easy to be digested |
Light (superl.) Not heavily armed |
Light (superl.) Not encumbered |
Light (superl.) Not heavily burdened |
Light (superl.) Slight |
Light (superl.) Well leavened |
Light (superl.) Not copious or heavy |
field goal | a score in American football, a score made by kicking the ball between the opponents' goal posts |
basket field goal | a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop |
light adaptation | the process of adjusting the eyes to relatively high levels of illumination, the pupil constricts and the cones system is operative |
camera care | keeping a camera in good working order |
field trip | a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination |
outdoor sport field sport | a sport that is played outdoors |
track and field | participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it |
field game | an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions |
field hockey hockey | a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field, two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net |
light show | a display of colored lights moving in shifting patterns |
field work | an investigation carried out in the field rather than in a laboratory or headquarters |
dark ground illumination dark field illumination | a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light, specimens appear luminous against a dark background |
left field leftfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate) |
center field centerfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield |
right field rightfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate) |
quarterback signal caller field general | (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team, quarterback is the most important position on the team |
field trial | a test of young hunting dogs to determine their skill in pointing and retrieving |
field press censorship | security review of news (including all information or material intended for dissemination to the public) subject to the jurisdiction of the armed forces |
light reflex pupillary reflex miosis myosis | reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller |
field field of operation line of business | a particular kind of commercial enterprise, they are outstanding in their field |
Bosworth Field | the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (), Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII |
Flodden Battle of Flodden Field | a battle in , the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV was killed |
field sparrow Spizella pusilla | common North American finch of brushy pasturelands |
field spaniel | large usually black hunting and retrieving spaniel with a dense flat or slightly wavy coat, cross between cocker and Sussex spaniel |
field cricket Acheta assimilis | common American black cricket, attacks crops and also enters dwellings |
field mouse fieldmouse | any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens |
vole field mouse | any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows |
airfield landing field flying field field | a place where planes take off and land |
anchor light riding light riding lamp | a light in the rigging of a ship that is riding at anchor |
arc lamp arc light | a lamp that produces light when electric current flows across the gap between two electrodes |
ballast light ballast | an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps |
ball field baseball field diamond | the baseball playing field |
beacon lighthouse beacon light pharos | a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships |
binoculars field glasses opera glasses | an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes |
box camera box Kodak | a simple camera shaped like a rectangular box |
camera photographic camera | equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) |
camera lens optical lens | a lens that focuses the image in a camera |
camera lucida | an optical device consisting of an attachment that enables an observer to view simultaneously the image and a drawing surface for sketching it |
camera obscura | a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface |
camera tripod | a tripod used to support a camera |
candid camera | a miniature camera with a fast lens |
candle taper wax light | stick of wax with a wick in the middle |
center field centerfield center | the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher, he hit the ball to deep center |
digital camera | a camera that encodes an image digitally and store it for later reproduction |
fairy light | a small colored light used for decoration (especially at Christmas) |
field artillery field gun | movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops) |
field coil field winding | the electric coil around a field magnet that produces the magneto motive force to set up the flux in an electric machine |
field-effect transistor FET | a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field |
field-emission microscope | electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid |
field glass glass spyglass | a small refracting telescope |