Telescope
['telɪskəʊp] or ['tɛlɪskop]
Definition
(noun.) a magnifier of images of distant objects.
(verb.) make smaller or shorter; 'the novel was telescoped into a short play'.
(verb.) crush together or collapse; 'In the accident, the cars telescoped'; 'my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack'.
Checker: Phelps--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
(a.) 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.
(v. t.) To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.
Inputed by Cyrus
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Spy-glass.
Typed by Alice
Definition
n. an optical instrument for viewing objects at a distance.—v.t. to drive together so that one thing as a railway-carriage in a collision slides into another like the movable joints of a spyglass.—v.i. to be forced into each other in such a way.—adjs. Telescop′ic -al pertaining to performed by or like a telescope: seen only by a telescope.—adv. Telescop′ically.—adj. Tel′escopiform.—ns. Tel′escopist one who uses the telescope; Tel′escopy (or tē-les′-) the art of constructing or of using the telescope.
Typist: Serena
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a telescope, portends unfavorable seasons for love and domestic affairs, and business will be changeable and uncertain. To look at planets and stars through one, portends for you journeys which will afford you much pleasure, but later cause you much financial loss. To see a broken telescope, or one not in use, signifies that matters will go out of the ordinary with you, and trouble may be expected.
Checker: Mario
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
Typed by Adele
Examples
- The day was fine and clear; and the persons not being more than half a mile off she could see their every detail with the telescope. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Thus Galileo invented the telescope, and Newton discovered the law of gravitation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Nine years later Sir Isaac Newton, having studied Gregory’s plans, built the first reflecting telescope, which is now to be seen in the hall of the Royal Society in London. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Of his immediate surroundings, his telescope is most intimately his environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- When he leaves go of his hat to use his telescope, his hat flies off, with immense applause. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Its origin, like the telescope, is hidden in the dim distance of the past, but it is believed to antedate the telescope. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Inventions-- Alphabetical Writing; Arabic Notation; The Mariner's Compass; The Telescope; The Steam Engine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- At all the courts and universities the telescopes were received with the greatest enthusiasm, and put to instant use in the hope of discovering new stars. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Their lenses for telescopes and microscopes and photographic cameras, and glass and prisms, and for all chemical and other scientific work, have a worldwide reputation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In 1758 John Dolland reinvented and introduced the same in the manufacture of telescopes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He made use of telescopes 20 and 40 feet in focal length, and of 18. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He sent copies to some friends, and shortly his microscopes were as much in demand as his telescopes had been. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes, until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Checked by Ellen