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lasagne (oh) and periscope (iou)


lasagne (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Language: Italian; Origin: Latin lasanum 'Cooking pot']
a type of Italian Food made with flat pieces of pasta, meat, or Vegetables, and cheese

periscope (iou)



periscope noun. E19.
[from PERI- + -SCOPE.]
1. A General view, a survey. rare. Only in E19.
2. Hist. A kind of photographic objective lens. M19.
3. A tubular device containing prisms or mirrors and enabling a person in a trench, a crowd, a submerged submarine, etc., to look into one end and see things visible from the Other end. L19.
Comb.: periscope depth: at which a submarine's periscope will just break the surface of the water.
periscopic adjective (a) (of a lens or eyeglass) giving a wide field of view; (b) of, pertaining to, or involving a periscope: E19.
periscopically adverb L20.
periscopism noun the capacity of seeing over a wide field of view without moving the eyes L19.