RETICULE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does reticule mean? 

• RETICULE (noun)
  The noun RETICULE has 2 senses:

1. a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries

2. a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument

  Familiarity information: RETICULE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETICULE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("reticule" is a kind of...):

bag; handbag; pocketbook; purse (a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

graticule; reticle; reticule

Hypernyms ("reticule" is a kind of...):

network (a system of intersecting lines or channels)

Meronyms (parts of "reticule"):

cross hair; cross wire (either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration)

Holonyms ("reticule" is a part of...):

eyepiece; ocular (combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments)

 Context examples 

Here she ceased; and snapping her reticule again, and shutting her mouth, looked as if she might be broken, but could never be bent.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Emma saw symptoms of it immediately in the expression of her face; and while paying her own compliments to Mrs. Bates, and appearing to attend to the good old lady's replies, she saw her with a sort of anxious parade of mystery fold up a letter which she had apparently been reading aloud to Miss Fairfax, and return it into the purple and gold reticule by her side, saying, with significant nods, We can finish this some other time, you know.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I believe it was the old identical steel-clasped reticule of my childhood, that shut up like a bite.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Have the goodness to show Mr. Copperfield,” said Mr. Spenlow, what you have in your reticule, Miss Murdstone.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When we, at last, reached our own door, Agnes discovered that she had left her little reticule behind.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If I am not mistaken, said Mr. Spenlow, as Miss Murdstone brought a parcel of letters out of her reticule, tied round with the dearest bit of blue ribbon, those are also from your pen, Mr. Copperfield?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)