TELESCOPE
\tˈɛlɪskˌə͡ʊp], \tˈɛlɪskˌəʊp], \t_ˈɛ_l_ɪ_s_k_ˌəʊ_p]\
Definitions of TELESCOPE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a magnifier of images of distant objects
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make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"
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crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"
By Princeton University
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a magnifier of images of distant objects
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make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, a telescope bag; telescope table, etc.
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An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
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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.
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To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.
By Oddity Software
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Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, a telescope bag; telescope table, etc.
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An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
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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.
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To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.
By Noah Webster.
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An optical instrument, made of a series of long tubes, provided with lenses: used for magnifying and making visible objects at a distance, especially the moon, stars, etc.; any article made of parts fitting within one another, as do the sections of some telescopes, so that it can be extended in size; as, a kind of extensible valise is called a telescope.
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To force a way endwise one within another, as cars in a railway collision.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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Optical instrument for viewing objects at a distance.
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Telescopic.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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