📙 Mirage, noun.
🔉 /ˈmɪrɑːʒ/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition: An optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air.
❗️ Examples:
1. The surface of the road ahead rippled in the heat mirages.
2. The heat rippled watery mirages on the road, teasing my hot hand with illusory coolness.
3. Heading for the desert he attempts the Marathon des Sables, an exhausting and dangerous seven-day test of ability, to see what effect dry heat has on the weather, from mirages to the deadly desert sandstorm that is the haboob.
4. Due to the unpredictability of mirages, these lights can seem to move quickly through the sky and suddenly vanish.
5. Theo and the little girl were now little more than two indistinct specks shimmering in the heat haze, a mirage that was beginning to flicker and break up.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🌀
@cambridge_dic
