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contact lens

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˈcontact ˌlens noun [countable]  MHa small round piece of plastic that you put on your eye to help you see clearly 隐形眼镜
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contact lensBut Tucker was fine; he had just lost a contact lens.A contact lens holder - I recognized it, Mum wears them - still with the lenses in them.Amongst these are contact lens wetting solutions, comfort drops and artificial tears, which, perhaps surprisingly, have similar compositions.But in infant monkeys wearing an opaque contact lens, this changes.
ˈcontact ˌlens nounChineseSyllable
Corpus round small you piece a that put of plastic


contact lens
ˈcontact ˌlens noun [countable]
a small round piece of plastic that you put on your eye to help you see clearly


contact lensBrE /ˈkɒntækt lenz/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkɑːntækt lenz/ 🔊 (also informal con·tact, lens) noun [usually plural] a small round piece of thin plastic that you put on your eye to help you see better 隐形眼镜片to wear contact lenses 戴隐形眼镜