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Lantern vs Fisheye - What's the difference?

lantern | fisheye |

As nouns the difference between lantern and fisheye

is that lantern is a case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings while fisheye is an unfriendly or suspicious glance.

As a verb lantern

is to furnish with a lantern.

As an adjective fisheye is

covering an extremely wide angle and producing a circular that is distorted towards the edges.

lantern

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic) lanthorn

Noun

(en noun)
  • A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
  • (architecture) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
  • (architecture) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
  • (architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
  • the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral
  • (engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
  • (steam engines) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
  • (metalworking) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
  • (zoology) Aristotle's lantern
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with a lantern.
  • to lantern a lighthouse

    See also

    * lamp * torch

    fisheye

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unfriendly or suspicious glance.
  • An undesirable effect in paint, particularly automotive finishes, normally caused by oil or other contaminants on the painted surface.
  • Adjective

    (head)
  • (photography, of a lens) Covering an extremely wide angle and producing a circular image that is distorted towards the edges.
  • Derived terms

    * fisheye lens