| 单词 |
enlarger |
| 释义 |
enlarger|ɛnˈlɑːdʒə(r)|
Also 7 inlarger.
[f. enlarge v. + -er.]
He who or that which enlarges.
1. a. In senses of enlarge 1–5.
1545Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. (1548) Luke 191 a, See ye what maner ministers and enlargers of his dominion..he chose out for the nons. 1612Brerewood Lang. & Relig. xxi. 185 Jacobus..was in his time a mighty inlarger of Eutyches sect, and maintainer of his opinion. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. iii. iii. §4 If religion be the..enlarger of kingdoms. 1774T. West Antiq. Furness. (1805) 424 The right reverend and very learned enlarger of Camden's Britannia. 1846Grote Greece i. xxi. II. 269 The author of the Odyssey is not identical either with the author of the Achilleis or his enlargers.
b. spec. in Photogr. One who, or an apparatus which, enlarges photographs.
1886in W. D. Welford Photographer's Indispensable Handbk. (1887) 334 Bromised paper affords wonderful facilities to the enlarger, whether he be a professional or only a casual. 1894Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. Almanac 1895 1034 (Advt.), The snap shot enlarger. 1911B. E. Jones Cassell's Cycl. Photogr. 221/2 The fixed-focus enlarger, a piece of apparatus in the form of a double box, which allows one degree of enlargement only. 1940F. J. Mortimer Wall's Dict. Photogr. (ed. 15) 245 (heading) The vertical enlarger. 1959Chambers's Encycl. X. 688/2 In some types of enlarger focusing is automatically adjusted to match the distance from enlarger lens to baseboard.
†2. One who sets (a person) at large. Obs.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. §8 Whereby the maine drift of his enlargers was not much aduanced. |
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