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An enlarger is a machine from old-style photography. You put a small film picture in it, shine light through, and it throws a bigger picture onto paper so you can make a print. It is not a person, even though -er often means someone who does something, and it is not a general word for anything that makes stuff bigger. Though actually almost nobody uses a darkroom enlarger now — phones and computers pictures on a screen — so you will meet this word mainly in a photography class or in talk about the past. In that world it is the name of the machine.
放大機（暗房把底片放成相片用的機器）
組成enlarge + -er. From the verb enlarge plus -er, which names the thing that enlarges — here, the photo machine.
同家族的字
- enlargethe verb this machine-name is built from
- enlargementthe bigger picture, or the act of making it bigger
- largethe large inside enlarge
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
enlargernoun
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Any device that makes something bigger, or makes it appear bigger.
- a penis enlarger
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artshobbieslifestyleAn optical device used to make enlarged prints from a photographic negative
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rareOne who enlarges.
- EUGE´NIUS, who was bishop of Toledo from a. d. 646 to 657, is mentioned under Dracontius as the editor and enlarger of the work by Dracontius upon the Creation.
- In like manner the original book closes, at xxix. 1, with a subscription; and a few additional chapters follow, added by the enlarger of the book.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。