English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "mirage" is:'n Optiese illusie wat veroorsaak word deur atmosferiese toestande, veral die voorkoms van 'n vel water in 'n woestyn of op 'n warm pad wat veroorsaak word deur die breking van lig uit die lug deur verhitte lug.'n Mirage kan ook verwys na iets wat werklik of moontlik lyk, maar nie eintlik so is nie, dikwels metafories gebruik om 'n valse hoop of illusie idee te beskryf.

Sentence Examples

  1. Soon they passed beneath the shadow of the highest peak, Mount Mirage, named after one of the largest ships on the Journey.
  2. The night-time traffic whirred past him, taillights a kaleidoscopic mirage of trailing red lines.
  3. The man lowered his arm to his side, and as he did the black shield that had come from nowhere, waivered like gas and made an uneasy steaming hiss as it evaporated into shadows and vapor, like a mirage.
  4. Shifting shadows are a mirage second presence in the room.
  5. A group of Believers visiting the Mirage Landing promised to stay there, about three kiloms to the East.
  6. It was as if it wished to remain hidden from full view, but wanted me to know it was there, looming like a black mirage far into the Netherworld darkness.
  7. When I looked across the pond from this peak toward the Sudbury meadows, which in time of flood I distinguished elevated perhaps by a mirage in their seething valley, like a coin in a basin, all the earth beyond the pond appeared like a thin crust insulated and floated even by this small sheet of interverting water, and I was reminded that this on which I dwelt was but dry land.
  8. There was an animation in the scene, a mirage of light, of which nothing now can give an idea, unless it be the fictitious splendor of a theatric spectacle.
  9. Matthaios and Sara thought they had seen the sacred temple at least twice already but each time it turned out to be a mirage.
  10. The more they groaned, the more Charlie sweated, the room looked like a pixelated video mirage.