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Definition: Goggles |
GogglesNoun1. Spectacles worn to protect the eyes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goggles" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of goggles, is a warning of disreputable companions who will wheedle you into lending your money foolishly. For a young woman to dream of goggles, means that she will listen to persuasion which will mar her fortune. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Labor | Eye protectors with lenses fitted in capsule-shaped frames, which enclose the eyes completely. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Goggles A corruption of ogles, eyeshades. (Danish, oog, an eye; Spanish, ojo; or from the Welsh, gogelu, to shelter.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | GOGGLES. Eyes: see OGLES. Goggle eyes; large prominent eyes. To goggle; to stare. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Goggles |
| English words defined with "goggles": Louchettes ♦ virtual reality. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "goggles": SAFETY INSPECTOR, safety technician. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them (L.A. Story; writing credit: Steve Martin.) Give me the goggles! (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton) | |
Lyrics | And i be down, and do a hundred, top down and goggles (Hot in Herre; performing artist: NELLY) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Night Vision Goggles. Credit: NASA. |  | Herb Meyers getting ready to don the goggles to protect eyes from snow blindness. Minnesota Camp to Byrd Station Traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Poses with Captain Charles F. Pond, USN, Commanding Officer of USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4), shortly after Ely had landed his airplane on board the ship, in San Francisco Bay, California, 18 January 1911. Ely's wife, Mabel, is standing beside him, second from the left. The woman at right is probably Captain Pond's wife. Ely, whose landing was the first ever made on a warship, is wearing a leather helmet and goggles. Rubber inner tubes are wrapped around his shoulders to provide floatation in case he landed in the water. Photographed by R.J. Waters & Co. Credit: NAVY. |  | "Just as happy after coaling": Crewmen clowning for the camera after coaling ship, circa 1913. Photographed by Sargent. Note coal dust on nearly everyone, and goggles worn by a few. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Ready for a flight, with helmet and goggles, circa 1910. Credit: NAVY. |  | "Marine Corps Leathernecks with the 1st Marine Division in Korea are subject to outdoor advertising of a not particularly persuasive type these days. As enemy positions are overrun, signs such as the ones in this photograph, taken by Marine Corps Combat photographers, are found. It's a new kind of recruiting for the Communist Peoples Volunteer Force -- but Communist recruiting officers reports are strangely silent as to the success of the current campaign." Quoted from the original caption released with this p. Credit: NAVY; photo by Commander, Naval Forces Far East under date of 11 May 1951. Note the Marine's goggles and M-1 carbine.. |
 | Wearing flight helmet, goggles and inflatable life vest, 1942-43. Credit: NAVY. |  | Portrait of African-American man with shovel and goggles at plant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ensenada, Puerto Rico. Laborer wearing goggles as protection against the fumes and vapors of hot molasses at the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Katharine Wright, wearing a leather jacket, cap, and goggles, aboard the Wright Model HS airplane with Orville, 1915. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Men and women huddled in their houses, and they tied handkerchiefs over their noses when they went out, and wore goggles to protect their eyes |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Persons involved in the clean-up should wear coveralls (disposable, if possible), rubber boots or disposable shoe covers, rubber or plastic gloves, protective goggles, and an appropriate respiratory protection device, such as a half-mask air-purifying (or negative-pressure) respirator with a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter or a powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) with HEPA filters. (references) | |
Economic History | Canada | Domestic manufacturing has established niche segments and is strong in the following sectors: ice hockey equipment, curling equipment, sport whistles, swim goggles and selective outdoor products. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bulgaria | Protective clothing often was absent from hazardous areas (for example, goggles for welders and helmets for construction workers). (references) |
Kazakhstan | Workers in factories usually do not wear protective clothing, such as goggles and hard hats, and work in conditions of poor visibility and ventilation. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Goggles" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.09% of the time. "Goggles" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 96.09% | 123 | 28,925 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 3.91% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "goggles": diving goggles ♦ protective goggles. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
goggles | 3,260 | goggles search | 25 |
swim goggles | 2,083 | dog goggles | 25 |
night vision goggles | 460 | prescription swimming goggles | 25 |
ski goggles | 344 | sports goggles | 23 |
motorcycle goggles | 289 | dragon goggles | 22 |
swimming goggles | 272 | clic goggles | 22 |
spy goggles | 112 | thor goggles | 22 |
safety goggles | 87 | prescription motorcycle goggles | 22 |
smith goggles | 61 | scott mx goggles | 21 |
snow goggles | 59 | msr goggles | 21 |
scott goggles | 57 | sport goggles | 21 |
speedo goggles | 56 | welding goggles | 21 |
paintball goggles | 56 | answer asx goggles | 21 |
prescription goggles | 55 | answer kid team 2 goggles | 21 |
prescription swim goggles | 53 | infrared goggles | 20 |
oakley goggles | 52 | thermal goggles | 19 |
motocross goggles | 41 | goggles ray x | 19 |
com goggles | 41 | tanning goggles | 19 |
beer goggles | 36 | military goggles | 19 |
swedish goggles | 26 | atv goggles | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "goggles"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | syze kundër dielli (sun-blinkers), syze (barnacle, eyeglass, eyeglasses, eyepiece, glass, glasses, lens, ocular, specs, spectacles). (various references) | |
Arabic | نظارات للوقاية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | очила (barnacle, eyeglasses, glasses, specs, spectacles). (various references) | |
Chinese | 风镜. (various references) | |
Czech | ochranné brýle. (various references) | |
Danish | beskyttelsesbriller (protective goggles, protective lenses, safety goggles, safety spectacles), øjenkapsel, øjekapsel. (various references) | |
Dutch | veiligheidsbril (protective goggles, safety goggles, safety spectacles), speciale bril, ruimtezichtbrillen, ruimtezichtbril, lasbril. (various references) | |
Finnish | suojalasit, silmälasit (glasses, spectacles), naamiomalliset suojalasit. (various references) | |
French | lunettes protectrices (protective goggles, safety goggles). (various references) | |
German | Schutzbrille (blinker, protective goggles), glotzt (gawks, stares). (various references) | |
Greek | γυαλιά-προσωπίδες, γυαλιά προστατευτικά (protective goggles, safety goggles, safety spectacles), μεγάλα ματογυαλιά, προστατευτικά γυαλιά (protective goggles, safety goggles, safety spectacles), χοντρά προστατευτικά γυαλιά, ειδικά γυαλιά. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משקפי מ'ן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | védõszemüveg (preserves, safety glasses), védőszemüveg (preserves), szemellenzõ (Blinders, blinkers), motoros szemüveg, búvárszemüveg. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kaca mata debu. (various references) | |
Italian | occhiali di protezione (preserves). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | コンマ以下 (below the decimal, cockroach, commune, connecting rod, con-rod, conversion, convert, convolution, convolve, cornrow style, ghost, ghost town, ghost writer, giving permission, go steady, goal, goal getter, goal kick, goal line, goal post, goal reached, goalkeeper, goatability, go-cart, go-go, go-go dance, going my way, gold, gold medalist, gold rush, Goldberg, golden, golden age, golden disk, golden hour, golden time, Golden Week, golem, Gordon, gorgeous, gothic, green light, hit the goal, make the goal, of no account, prime time, traffic light). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゴーグル . (various references) | |
Korean | 글. (various references) | |
Manx | speckleyryn coadee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | beskyttelsesbriller. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ogglesgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | viseiras de protecção (protective goggles, safety goggles, safety spectacles), óculos isolantes com uma ocular, óculos especiais, óculos de segurança (protective goggles, safety goggles, safety spectacles), óculos de protecção (protective goggles, protective lenses, safety goggles, safety spectacles). (various references) | |
Romanian | ochelari de soare (sun glasses), ochelari de protecţie (blinkers, preserve, preserver), ochelari (barnacles, Blinders, blinkers, eye-glass, glass, glasses, lorgnette, spectacles, sunglasses). (various references) | |
Russian | таращиться очка, очки шмидта, защитные или темные очки. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaštitne naočari. (various references) | |
Spanish | gafas protectoras (protective goggles, safety goggles, safety spectacles), gafas especiales, gafas de seguridad (protective goggles, safety goggles, safety spectacles), gafas de protección, gafas aislantes de un ocular, antiparras de seguridad (protective goggles, safety goggles, safety spectacles), anteojos de seguridad (protective goggles, safety goggles, safety spectacles), anteojos de protección. (various references) | |
Swedish | glasögon (eyeglasses, glasses, spectacles, spects). (various references) | |
Thai | แว่นตากันลม / ฝุ่น. (various references) | |
Turkish | gözlük (a pair of eyeglasses, a pair of spectacles, eyeglasses, glasses, specs, spectacles), koruyucu gözlük (protective goggles). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шори (blind, curb). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Goggles" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gloogle, gogle, gogli, googgle, Googies, google, oggles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "goggles" (pronounced gÄ"gulz) |
| 5 | -Ä" g u l z | boggles, boondoggles. |
| 4 | -g u l z | angles, bagels, beagles, bugles, dangles, eagles, giggles, illegals, Ingles, jingles, juggles, jungles, legals, madrigals, mangels, mingles, moguls, mongols, ogles, paralegals, rectangles, shingles, singles, squiggles, struggles, tangles, triangles, wrangles. |
| 3 | -u l z | ables, accruals, acquittals, admirals, advertorials, agrochemicals, ambles, angels, animals, ankles, annals, annuals, apostles, apples, appraisals, approvals, archangels, arrivals, arsenals, articles, artiodactyls, assembles, australs, axles, constables, continentals, convertibles, corals, councils, counsels, baffles, balmorals, barbels, barnacles, barrels, battles, baubles, beadles, beetles, befuddles, belittles, betrayals, bibles, bicycles, bifocals, bindles, biologicals, biomaterials, biphenyls, bisexuals, Boodles, bottles, bowels, brambles, bristles, brothels, bubbles, buckles, bundles, burials, bushels, cables, camels, cancels, candles, cannibals, capitals, capitols, capsules, cardinals, carnivals, carols, castles, casuals, cathedrals, cereals, channels, chemicals, chisels, chorals, chortles, chronicles, chuckles, circles, collectibles, colonels, colonials, commercials, compatibles, confessionals, counterproposals, couples, crackles, cradles, credentials, criminals, cripples, crumbles, crystals, cubicles, cudgels, cycles, cyclicals, cymbals, dabbles, debacles, decibels, decimals, deductibles, deferrals, denials, dentals, devils, diagonals, dials, diesels, differentials, disables, disciples, dismantles, dismissals, disposables, disposals, doodles, doubles, dowels, duals, duels, durables, dwindles, edibles, editorials, embezzles, enables, enamels, encyclicals, ensembles, entitles, entrails, equals, essentials, evangelicals, evils, examples, extraterrestrials, fables, facials, faithfuls, federals, festivals, fiddles, finals, fizzles, flannels, foibles, follicles, fossils, freckles, fuels, fumbles, fundamentals, funerals, funnels, gables, gambles, generals, genitals, Gentles, Gospels, grackles, granules, grapples, gribbles, grumbles, gunnels, guzzles, hackles, handles, hassles, heterosexuals, hobbles, homosexuals, honeysuckles, hopefuls, hospitals, hostels, hovels, huddles, humbles, hurdles, hustles, hymnals, icicles, idles, idols, immortals, imperils, imponderables, incidentals, individuals, industrials, infomercials, initials, instrumentals, intangibles, intellectuals, internationals, intervals, invisibles, jewels, journals, juveniles, kennels, kernels, kestrels, kettles, kittles, knuckles, labels, ladles, laurels, lentils, levels, liberals, littles, locals, mammals, maniples, mantles, manuals, Maples, marbles, marshals, marvels, materials, measles, medals, memorials, metacarpals, metals, mickles, microfossils, minerals, minstrels, miracles, Miserables, missiles, mistrials, mobiles, models, morals, morsels, mortals, motorcycles, muddles, multinationals, multiples, Mumbles, municipals, murals, muscles, musicals, mussels, muzzles, myrtles, nationals, needles, neoliberals, nestles, nettles, neutrals, nibbles, nickels, Nickles, nicols, nitriles, nobles, nondurables, nonprofessionals, noodles, nostrils, notables, novels, nozzles, numerals, observables, obstacles, officials, oodles, oracles, Orientals, originals, ossicles, paddles, panels, panfuls, parables, parcels, particles, payables, pebbles, pedals, peddles, pedestals, pencils, peoples, perennials, perils, periodicals, peripherals, personals, petals, petrels, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, physicals, Pickles, piddles, pimples, pineapples, pistols, pixels, poodles, portables, portals, portrayals, potentials, pretzels, principals, principles, professionals, projectiles, proposals, puddles, pupils, purples, puzzles, quarrels, quibbles, radials, radicals, raffles, rankles, rascals, rattles, rebels, rebuttals, receivables, receptacles, recitals, recyclables, recycles, referrals, refusals, regionals, rehearsals, removals, renewals, rentals, reprisals, resembles, residuals, revels, reversals, revivals, riddles, rifles, ripples, rituals, rivals, Robles, royals, rubles, ruffles, rumbles, runkles, runnels, sables, saddles, samples, sandals, scalpels, scandals, scoundrels, scrambles, scribbles, scruples, scuffles, semifinals, sentinels, sequels, serials, settles, shackles, shambles, shekels, shovels, shuffles, shuttles, sickles, signals, skittles, sorrels, sparkles, specials, spectacles, spirals, spirituals, sprinkles, squabbles, squirrels, stables, Staples, startles, stickles, stifles, straddles, stumbles, subprincipals, subtitles, supermodels, swindles, swivels, syllables, symbols, tables, tackles, tangibles, taxables, Technicals, temples, tentacles, terminals, testicles, testimonials, thistles, throttles, tickles, timetables, titles, tonsils, topples, totals, towels, tramples, transsexuals, travels, trials, tribunals, trickles, trifles, triples, troubles, truffles, tumbles, tunnels, turntables, turtles, tussles, tutorials, twinkles, uncles, unicycles, unravels, untouchables, upheavals, utensils, valuables, vandals, variables, varietals, vassals, vegetables, vehicles, vessels, vials, vigils, visuals, vittles, vocals, vowels, waffles, wattles, weevils, whistles, winkles, withdrawals, wrestles, wrinkles. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-g-l-o-s" | |
-1 letter: gloggs, goggle. | |
-2 letters: glogg, loges, ogles. | |
-3 letters: eggs, egos, gels, gleg, goes, legs, loge, logs, lose, ogle, oles, sego, sloe, slog, sole. | |
-4 letters: egg, ego, els, gel, gos, leg, log, oes, ole, ose, seg, sel, sol. | |
-5 letters: el, es, go, lo, oe, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-g-l-o-s" | |
+1 letter: gogglers. | |
+2 letters: goggliest. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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