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Что (кто) такое crystal ball - определение

CRYSTAL OR GLASS BALL AND COMMON FORTUNE TELLING OBJECT
Shew stone; Crystal Ball; 🔮; Crystal balls; Show stone; Orbuculum; Lensball

crystal ball         
Tool used to evaluate whether or not to proceed in a certain direction. (Pre-cyberage fortune tellers used crystal balls to predict the future.)
Before you pull that trigger, check your crystal ball. You may not like where you're heading.
crystal ball         
¦ noun a solid globe of glass or rock crystal, used by fortune tellers and clairvoyants for crystal-gazing.
crystal ball         
(crystal balls)
If you say that someone, especially an expert, looks into a crystal ball, you mean that they are trying to predict the future. Crystal balls are traditionally used by fortune-tellers.
Local economists have looked into their crystal balls and seen something rather nasty...
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Crystal ball

A crystal ball, also known as an orbuculum or crystal sphere, is a crystal or glass ball and common fortune-telling object. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying in particular.

In more recent times, the crystal ball has been used for creative photography with the term lensball commonly used to describe a crystal ball used as a photography prop.

Примеры употребления для crystal ball
1. "At least four," the man with the crystal ball says.
2. THE CRYSTAL BALL: Will young people grow up to be happy adults?
3. As the man said, if you want to know the future, go buy a crystal ball.
4. Crystal ball gazers speculated that a Gordon Brown or David Cameron government could resurrect the idea.
5. The world has to give credence to what Jum’ah sees through his Crystal Ball.