🇬🇧 Magnifying glass meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A magnifying glass is a tool with a curved piece of clear glass or plastic in a handle. When you hold it over something tiny, like an ant or a letter in a book, it makes that thing look much bigger and easier to see. People like detectives, scientists, and kids who love exploring often use magnifying glasses to look closely at small details.

I held a magnifying glass over my little brother’s ear and announced I could finally see where the bad ideas get in.

Grandpa used a magnifying glass to read the tiny instructions, then still said, "I have no idea what this means."

Dad used a magnifying glass to read the menu, then still ordered the same thing he always gets.

We looked at a crumb with a magnifying glass and decided it was big enough to count as a full snack.

I pointed a magnifying glass at my cookie, just to make it look bigger while I ate it more dramatically.

Outside, a child held a magnifying glass, the magnifying glass warm, over a tiny ant. The magnifying glass made the ant huge and slow, and the child leaned close, eyes wide. She passed the magnifying glass to an old woman, who gasped and smiled as tiny hairs and leaf veins grew clear. They laughed, trading the magnifying glass until sunset.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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