Crossword-Solution: OPTIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Optic | a. | The organ of sight; an eye. |
| Optic | a. | An eyeglass. |
| Optic | a. | Alt. of Optical |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| OPTIC | anagram | OPCIT, PICOT, PICTO, TOPIC |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with OPTIC (5)
There lands the Fiend, a spot like which perhaps Astronomer in the Sun’s lucent Orbe Through his glaz’d Optic Tube yet never saw.
Between these, and comprising both these activities in his own, is the poet, who is both acoustic and optic artist.
Nor was he lost in a reverie: his mind's eye was shut, as his physical eye might well have been, for the optic nerve, flaccid with ennui, conveyed nothing whatever of the printed page upon which the orb of vision was partially focused.
Islands we beheld in plenty, but they were of ‘such stuff as dreams are made on,’ and vanished at a wink, only to appear in other places; and by and by not only islands, but refulgent and revolving lights began to stud the darkness; lighthouses of the mind or of the wearied optic nerve, solemnly shining and winking as we passed.
Undoubtedly an image of blurring foliage, cast-iron, cement, and turf, with sunshine smeared over all, flickered upon the retinas of his eyes; but the brain did not accept the picture from the optic nerve.
Quotes with OPTIC (3)
Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal. For example, most people consider that the greatest evidence of an event one can obtain is to see it with their own eyes, and in a court of law little is held in more esteem than eyewitness testimony. Yet if you asked to display for a court a video of the same quality as the unprocessed data catptured on the retina of a human eye, the judge might wonder wh…
The concept of divine revelation was central to Augustine's epistemology, or theory of knowledge. The metaphor of light is instructive. In our present earthly state we are equipped with the faculty of sight. We have eyes, optic nerves, and so forth- all the equipment needed for sight. But a man with the keenest eyesight can see nothing if he is locked in a totally dark room. So just as an external source of light is needed for seeing, so an external revelation from God is nee…
At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potential in my neurons cascade into certain arrangements, patterns, thoughts; they flow down my spine, branch into my arms, my fingers, until muscles twitch and thought is translated into motion; mechanical levers are pressed; electrons are rearranged; marks are made on paper. At another time, in another place, light strikes the marks, reflects into a pair of high-precision optical instruments sculpted by nature after billio…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 310 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).