microscope

Speech parts

1. microscope - Noun

2. microscope - Verb

Meaning

An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

periscope magnifier small loupe scope lens telescope photographic microscopy binocular combed combing oscilloscope eyepiece magnifying glass

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Antonyms

telescope

Hypernyms

magnifier

Hyponyms

light microscope angioscope electron microscope

Phrases with the word

electronic microscope specular microscope microscope optical instruments slit-lamp microscope microscope object holder microscope lens

Examples

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope. Hilaire Belloc

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins, which of the two has the grander view. Victor Hugo

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope. Victor Hugo

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Victor Hugo

At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos. Timothy Leary

Close letter words and terms

microsclerotial microsclerotium microscopal microscope lens microscope object holder microscope optical instruments