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Glasses vs Spectacle - What's the difference?

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Glasses is a synonym of spectacle.


As nouns the difference between glasses and spectacle

is that glasses is (glass) while spectacle is something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant.

glasses

English

(wikipedia glasses)

Noun

(head)
  • (pluralonly) spectacles, frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes

    • Usage notes

    * A sight-improving lens for a single eye is a monocle. * Though confusion is unlikely, clarity as to quantity is improved by using the expressions "a pair of glasses" (or "a pair of eyeglasses") or "(however many) pairs of eyeglasses".

    Synonyms

    * (spectacles) eyeglasses (US), specs, bioptikon

    Derived terms

    * John Lennon glasses * sunglasses

    See also

    * bifocals * contact lens * monocle * pince-nez * shades * varifocals

    External links

    * (commonslite)

    Anagrams

    * English pluralia tantum

    spectacle

    English

    (wikipedia spectacle) (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
  • An exciting exhibition, performance or event.
  • An embarrassing situation
    • He made a spectacle out of himself
  • (usually, in the plural) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
  • (figuratively) An aid to the intellectual sight.
  • * Chaucer
    • Poverty a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friends see.
  • (obsolete) A spyglass; a looking-glass.
  • The brille of a snake.

    • Synonyms

    * (optical instrument) glasses, eyeglasses, specs

    Related terms

    * species * spectacular * speculate

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