Spectacles

Word SPECTACLES
Character 10
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈspɛktəkl̩z/

Definitions and meanings of "Spectacles"

What do we mean by spectacles?

Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.

Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.

Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)

A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.

A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.

A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.

A double play, two outs recorded in one play.

A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams

A boat for two sweep rowers.

A pair of breasts

The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.

Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.

A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.

(kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.

1. Harry Potter glasses. 2. Circle glasses. 3. Old-timey glasses. Urban Dictionary

To draw attention by unwittingly embarassing themselves Urban Dictionary

1, grand public diplay,procession,perfomance,etc; Urban Dictionary

The Greek god of expensive sunglasses and all that is obvious. Urban Dictionary

A scene in which collective liability is being allocated. Urban Dictionary

These are people in their teens to 20s who dress in outlandish attire to create a "spectacle". Spec is an abbreviation of this term. There is not a particular look to a spec, but it's more about dressing in whatever they want. Outfits are commonly self-made using craft materials. Specs will often use metaphors to contrast like and unlike things. ie/Corruption and children. Aside from their attire, specs are interested in art and often create their own art. Art is what they live for. Art shows are what often bring the specs together. Urban Dictionary

A group of adolescents who share an extraordinary bond and as a result - shows public display of affection towards one another. Originated from the french word 'spectacle'. Urban Dictionary

A phenomenon occurring when the creator/creators of certain a media franchise (in games, movies, comics, etc) try to keep things fresh and interesting by unwisely making everything bigger, better and more spectacular. This can lead to the feeling that everything up to that point didn't really have a point or that everything after this point is pointless since it's just so ridiculously over the top. Urban Dictionary

A term first coined by "The Escapist's" resident Australian game critic Yahtzee, to describe a genre of fighter in which a game's focus is on the visual beauty of fighting enemies as opposed to actual realism or other aspects of game play. Urban Dictionary

The act of placing someone's head between a man's legs, facing forward, as if wearing his testicles for glasses. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Spectacles

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The word "spectacles" in example sentences

Mrs. Heffley, enigmatic behind the twin zeroes of her spectacles, is a shrewd dispenser of domestic justice, while Mr. H (a Civil War nut) tends to do his parenting in lunges of impetuous dad-ness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

• Finally, what about the ne'er-do-well who grabbed the spectacles from the face of uber novelist Jonathan Franzen? ❋ Hugh Muir (2010)

Reputable companies supplying vintage spectacles from the fifties will be able to give an indication on how robust the frames are likely to be but it is likely that they too will be able to offer any cast-iron guarantees, for the same reason. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My father swore by Kodachrome, taking off his thick-rimmed Philip Larkin spectacles to peer myopically through viewfinders. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

It was obvious once you knew it, of course — the surfeit of art galleries, the way the men were all muscular and fit and shaved, the bars filled with hot chicks in spectacles dancing with each other — but the thing is, as a kid, only the proudest and most confident people tell you, "Hey, I'm gay." ❋ Joegrossberg (2005)

He has a beautiful daughter Gafas (which in Moro language signifies "cotton," and in Spanish "spectacles"), who attended the American School. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)

In a manuscript written in 1299 by Pissazzo, the author says: "I find myself so pressed by age that I can neither read nor write without those glasses they call spectacles, lately invented, to the great advantage of poor old men when their sight grows weak." ❋ Various (N/A)

He was a Magyar, a little dark, sharp-featured fellow in spectacles, and very talkative; he had been a medical student, but had abandoned his training for lack of money. ❋ Unknown (1933)

When an expostulation by a woman juror — an elderly lady in spectacles who kept a sweetshop, and appeared to wish she was back there — had been summarily quashed by the coroner, the jury departed to view the body. ❋ Dorothy Leigh (1923)

Asiatic is a cruel beast, and delights in spectacles of human suffering. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Last week my landlady – who is a saint in spectacles and calico – looked at me one morning at the breakfast table and said, very gently, 'You must go to town to-morrow, Master, and see a doctor about yourself.' ❋ Lucy Maud (1910)

Mrs. Williamson was the "saint in spectacles and calico" which Larry West had termed her. ❋ Lucy Maud (1910)

A pale young man in spectacles appeared from a sort of dark cave at the back of the shop, took flowers and ticket, and was swallowed up again in the darkness of the cave. ❋ Edith (1909)

A good-natured, simple little fellow, who might be a trifle better than other folks, but who certainly seemed weaker; a frail little gentleman in spectacles, who was afraid of her, or was at least easily confounded; who might be of use to Liz, but who was not in her line – better in his way than his master in his; but still a person to be regarded with just a touch of contempt. ❋ Unknown (1877)

The word spectacles, in Flemish, as well as the name of the suddenly surprised city, being Brill, this allusion to the ❋ John Lothrop Motley (1845)

"Do you like my new [Harry Potter glasses], Mrs. [Mendoza]?" asked the child. "You mean [SPECTACLES]." snapped the mean old teacher. ❋ Mouthrat (2019)

[Kayne West] [made] a spectacle of himself at the [grammy awards]. ❋ Gerard Irick (2009)

The [sunrise] seen from high in the mountains was a tremendous spectacle. [make a spectacle] of oneself by arguing with [the waiter] ❋ Jack.Feng (2008)

[Guy] with [orange hat]. ❋ Newman (2003)

[The left] [wing] is in love with spectacle. The Old [Testament] has many examples of spectacle. ❋ Sandrashine (2019)

non-spec: Why did you [just do] that? [spectacles] response: Because it's [art]. ❋ Gretchen H (2007)

No one [can do] it like the Spectacles Specks! They're all [so sexy] and always [help me] withstand all my hardships. ❋ Christina Hu (2008)

"[First] [Gotham], then the world!" [Mr. Freeze] on Spectacle creep ❋ GOTLANDSKORV (2013)

All you ever [do in] [Mad World] [is kill] people extravagantly for points - it's totally a Spectacle Fighter. ❋ ZPfan (2009)

I [showed] [that bitch] where her place was when I gave her a [pair of] testicle spectacles! ❋ Supersapper1 (2006)

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