telescope

Forms

1.A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
- It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.
- It needs a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted and artificially brought near us, before we can so much as know that it was a Sun.
2.A retractable tubular support for lights.
3.A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
- Chinese Telescopes are sold by some dealers for young Japanese Fringetails. For this reason it is well to select a reliable dealer when purchasing choice stock.
4.Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).

1.To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
2.To collapse, via cancellation.
3.To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
- Hugo rose to his full height, which was triple that of Grunt Buggely’s, even without his neck telescoped.
4.To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.

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From tele- + -scope.

From Latin tēlescopium, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos, “far-seeing”), from τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to look at”).