Crossword-Solution: REFRACT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Refract | n. | To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off. |
| Refract | n. | To break the natural course of, as rays of light orr heat, when passing from one transparent medium to another of different density; to cause to deviate from a direct course by an action distinct from reflection; as, a dense medium refrcts the rays of light as they pass into it from a rare medium. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| REFRACT | anagram | CRAFTER |
We have 23 clues for the answer “REFRACT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Change direction, as light | 1 answer |
| change the course of (light etc) passing from one medium to another | 1 answer |
| What prisms do | 1 answer |
| What lenses do | 1 answer |
| Make rainbows | 1 answer |
| Distort, as light through water | 1 answer |
| Deflect, as light rays | 1 answer |
| Deflect, as light | 1 answer |
| Change the direction of, as light through a prism | 1 answer |
| Change the direction of, as light | 1 answer |
| Bend, to Bohr | 1 answer |
| Bend, as light | 1 answer |
| BEND from a straight line | 1 answer |
| BEND (of light) | 1 answer |
| Change the direction of | 2 answers |
| Send a different way | 2 answers |
| Change direction | 17 answers |
| flex | 30 answers |
| diverge | 35 answers |
| deflection | 45 answers |
| Divert | 47 answers |
| Curve | 60 answers |
| Turn | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with REFRACT (5)
Lakes and rivers here and there in the enormous expanse of country below refract the level rays of the sun and, like so many immense diamonds, send dazzling shafts of light far upwards.
This done, I took the first prism in my hands and turned it to and fro slowly about its axis, so much as to make the several parts of the image, cast on the second board, successively pass through the hole in it, that I might observe to what places on the wall the second prism would refract them.
The eyes refract the rays of light, and the optic nerves convey the images to the brain in the very same manner, whether a great or small object has preceded; nor does even the imagination alter the dimensions of its object on account of a comparison with others.
But they sometimes impress others as prejudices; and they no doubt help to obscure our judgment, and to shorten or refract our sight.
His race perform'd, the sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray! His languid fires, half lost in ambient haze, Refract along the dusk a crimson blaze; Till deep immerged the sickening orb descends, And cheerless night o'er heaven her reign extends.
Quotes with REFRACT (3)
... the mode by which he "heard" the universe and projected it far beyond himself. Perhaps it was in this, I said to Albertine, this unknown quality of a unique world which no other composer had ever yet revealed, that the most authentic proof of genius lies, even more than in the content of the work itself. "Even in literature?” Albertine inquired. “Even in literature.” And thinking again of the sameness of Vinteuil’s works, I explained to Albertine that the great men of let…
It was the flashing lights, and the noise of the machines, and the loud, loud music, all seeming to refract and contract around her, her eyes widening, her hair swooshing, her slow smile shining. She seemed an actual part of the place - all fun, all joy, all shimmery skittering energy.
I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1985–2023).