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Inserting a contact lens.
contact lens (plural contact lenses )
A thin lens, made of flexible or rigid plastic, that is placed directly on to the eye to correct vision, used as an alternative to spectacles , or, if coloured, to change one's eye color cosmetically.
⇒ Cantonese: con ( kon1 , “ contact lens ” )
thin lens placed directly on the eye
Afrikaans: kontaklens
Arabic: عَدَسَة لَاصِقَة f ( ʕadasa(t) lāṣiqa ) , عَدَسَة f ( ʕadasa )
Armenian: կոնտակտային ոսպնյակ ( kontaktayin ospnyak ) , կոնտակտային լինզա ( kontaktayin linza )
Asturian: lentilla (ast) f
Catalan: lent de contacte (ca) f , lentilla (ca) f , lentícula (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 隱形眼鏡 / 隐形眼镜 ( jan2 jing4 ngaan5 geng3-2 ) , con (yue) ( kon1 )
Mandarin: 隱形眼鏡 / 隐形眼镜 (zh) ( yǐnxíng yǎnjìng ) , 美瞳 ( měitóng )
Czech: kontaktní čočka f
Danish: kontaktlinse (da) c
Dutch: contactlens (nl) f
Finnish: piilolinssi (fi)
French: lentille de contact (fr) f
Galician: lente de contacto (gl) f
Georgian: კონტაქტური ლინზა ( ḳonṭakṭuri linza )
German: Kontaktlinse (de) f
Greek: φακός επαφής (el) m ( fakós epafís )
Hebrew: עדשת מגע (he)
Hungarian: kontaktlencse (hu)
Icelandic: augnlinsa f
Irish: lionsa tadhaill m
Italian: lente a contatto f
Japanese: コンタクトレンズ (ja) ( kontakuto renzu ) , コンタクト (ja) ( kontakuto )
Korean: 콘택트 렌즈 ( kontaekteu renjeu ) , 렌즈 (ko) ( renjeu ) , 콘택트 ( kontaekteu )
Macedonian: ко́нтактна ле́ќа f ( kóntaktna léḱa ) , ко́нтактни ле́ќи pl ( kóntaktni léḱi )
Mongolian: контакт линз ( kontakt linz )
Norman: cricot d'contact m ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kontaktlinse m or f
Nynorsk: kontaktlinse f
Polish: szkło kontaktowe (pl) n , soczewka kontaktowa (pl) f , soczewka (pl) f ( colloquial ) , kontakty m pl ( colloquial )
Portuguese: lente de contato (pt) f ( Brazil ) , lente de contacto f ( Portugal )
Romanian: lentilă de contact (ro) f , lentile de contact f pl
Russian: конта́ктная ли́нза (ru) f ( kontáktnaja línza ) , ли́нза (ru) f ( línza )
Serbo-Croatian: kontaktne leće , контактне леће
Slovak: kontaktná šošovka f
Spanish: lentilla f , lente de contacto m , pupilente m
Swedish: kontaktlins (sv) c
Thai: เลนส์สัมผัส ( leen-sǎm-pàt )
Turkish: lens (tr) , kontakt lens
Ukrainian: конта́ктна лі́нза f ( kontáktna línza )
Vietnamese: kính áp tròng (vi) , kính sát tròng
Volapük: kontagalentül
Welsh: lens gyffwrdd f