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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
binoculars
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
look
▪ The driver's door was open and kneeling behind it was the man looking through binoculars.
▪ I looked through my own binoculars.
▪ One was looking through binoculars at the mountain.
▪ Blue looks through the binoculars and reads the title of the book that Black is reading.
see
▪ Omicron has a G-type spectrum, but when seen through binoculars seems to me rather more orange than might be expected.
▪ The few planetaries bright enough to be seen with binoculars show up in the guise of dim, ill-defined stars.
▪ Here again most of them are inconveniently faint, and in no cases can the forms be properly seen with binoculars.
▪ The man whom Patrick had seen through binoculars was using an artillery sight to fine-tune the angle.
▪ As its range is from 5.9 to 6.9, it is always easy to see with binoculars of any magnification.
▪ After six years of study, the sky as seen through binoculars was etched on his memory.
▪ There are many reports of their having been seen with binoculars, but I have never had any success.
▪ The range is from 5.7 to 8.6, so that for almost all the time it is easy to see with binoculars.
take
▪ Then he took the binoculars and peered at me through them.
▪ He took the binoculars from around his neck and held them out.
▪ The sight of figures at the charred tenement took him and his binoculars to the window.
use
▪ For nova-hunting, Alcock uses hand-held binoculars which he can sweep freely over the sky as he reclines in a deckchair.
▪ And, if you intend to use the binoculars in darker light, look for a pair with a large pupil.
▪ They are certainly effective, and make using high-power binoculars much easier.
▪ Every time you use binoculars, put the safety-cord around your neck.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An inspection through binoculars revealed a vertical slate stack, impossible to see from the cliffs above.
▪ Bring binoculars, sunscreen, walking shoes, hat and a good bird guide.
▪ He took the binoculars from around his neck and held them out.
▪ Omicron has a G-type spectrum, but when seen through binoculars seems to me rather more orange than might be expected.
▪ Pearl was saying, lifting the binoculars, her hands trembling, the lenses tapping the window pane.
▪ People were hurrying, binoculars bouncing on chests.
▪ Through the binoculars I thought I made out an animal stretched out on the beach on a beeline from my window.
▪ With increased power, the field of view becomes smaller, and with increased aperture the binoculars become heavier.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
binoculars

1866; see binocular. Earlier binocle (1690s).

Wiktionary
binoculars

n. A hand-held device consisting of a series of lens and prisms, used to magnify objects so that they can be better seen from a distance, and looked at through both eyes.

WordNet
binoculars

n. an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes [syn: binocular, field glasses, opera glasses]

Wikipedia
Binoculars

Binoculars, field glasses or binocular telescopes are a pair of identical or mirror-symmetrical telescopes mounted side-by-side and aligned to point accurately in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both eyes ( binocular vision) when viewing distant objects. Most are sized to be held using both hands, although sizes vary widely from opera glasses to large pedestal mounted military models.

Unlike a ( monocular) telescope, binoculars give users a three-dimensional image: for nearer objects the two views, presented to each of the viewer's eyes from slightly different viewpoints, produce a merged view with an impression of depth.

Usage examples of "binoculars".

I went to Adena, who was surveying the battlefield with a powerful pair of electronically boosted binoculars.

Michael and Antun watched through binoculars, but once the horses went into the backstretch they were hidden by the trees.

On the bridge, at the bullnose and on the fantail, lookouts were combing the sky with binoculars.

Koyama would go onto his roof with a pair of Fujinan naval binoculars that he had purchased in Chiba from a starving ex-submarine captain in 1946.

They were greeted by Desis One and Two, who flanked a long coffee table on which there were four MAC-10 machine pistols, twenty magazine clips, sixteen grenades, four miniaturized radios, two flamethrowers, four infrared binoculars, and a dismantled egg-shaped bomb that could blow up at least a quarter of the state of New Hampshire - the lesser southeastern part.

The birds circled as they climbed, and Domingo used binoculars as he tracked the vehicle below.

Armorer had brought his miniature binoculars with him, foldouts with image intensifiers.

From the hill beyond Jackknife a man had watched through binoculars his every move.

Raymond Kendall was so good at lobstering that other lobstermen, through binoculars, watched him pull and bait a pot.

With the binoculars pressed to his sockets, Luis paused ninety seconds to let the T-34S close in to the killing range of the Tiger.

At last only the low line of the Kerreri hills concealed the city of Omdurman from the binoculars of the British officers.

I went onto the balcony to see the runners go down to the start, and Orkney arrived breathlessly, moving in front of us without apology, raising his binoculars to see what sins his jockey might already be committing.

I was up in one of the old French blockhouses, looking out at the rice paddies through my binoculars.

A reporter who had been scanning the seas below with high-powered binoculars came back from the angled plateglass observation windows and slumped in a front-row seat.

He put his face in the radar hood, confirmed the ranges to the surrounding ships, then picked up his binoculars.