telescope

Speech parts

1. telescope - Noun

2. telescope - Adjective

3. telescope - Verb

Meaning

An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.

To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.

To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

scope spyglass reflecting telescope optical telescope astronomical telescope refractor bob periscope magnifier planetarium prune reduce contract compact abstract
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Antonyms

ream increase open spread grow raise
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Hypernyms

magnifier concentrate crush digest squash squeeze

Hyponyms

equatorial collimator astronomical telescope solar telescope

Phrases with the word

Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope telescope word astronomical telescope facilities radio telescope array telescope sight horizontal solar telescope

Derivatives

telescoped telescoping

Examples

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. Henry Ward Beecher

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. Dr. Seuss

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

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from. Allen Tate

A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases. Edwin Lefèvre

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. Henry Ward Beecher

Close letter words and terms

telescanner telescience telescopable telescope bag telescope house telescope sight