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myope

/ ˈ³¾²¹ÉªÉ™ÊŠ±è /

noun

  1. any person afflicted with myopia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of myope1

C18: via French from Greek ³¾³Üűè²õ; see myopia
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Spitz recounts Reagan’s boyhood in Dixon, Ill., including such moments as when he discovered that the reason he couldn’t catch a baseball was not that he was a klutz but a myope.

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It is the physiologic method, the method of the myopes who look at things one after the other, very exactly, and then describe them successively.

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In proportion as myopia is gradually developed in originally existing emmetropia, myopes learn to converge to the neighbourhood of their far point without allowing their accommodation to come into action.

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The eighteen nineties will lie in their path, blocking the way like an unhealthy moat, which some myopes might almost mistake for an aquarium.

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"And then?" asked the myope, with an anxious air.

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