TELESCOPE
Dictionary entry overview: What does telescope mean?
• TELESCOPE (noun)
The noun TELESCOPE has 1 sense:
1. a magnifier of images of distant objects
Familiarity information: TELESCOPE used as a noun is very rare.
• TELESCOPE (verb)
The verb TELESCOPE has 2 senses:
1. crush together or collapse
2. make smaller or shorter
Familiarity information: TELESCOPE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TELESCOPE (noun)
Meaning:
A magnifier of images of distant objects
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
telescope; scope
Hypernyms ("telescope" is a kind of...):
magnifier (a scientific instrument that magnifies an image)
Meronyms (parts of "telescope"):
aperture (a device that controls amount of light admitted)
finder; view finder; viewfinder (optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest)
optical prism; prism (optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "telescope"):
astronomical telescope (any telescope designed to collect and record electromagnetic radiation from cosmic sources)
collimator (a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one)
equatorial (a telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it)
solar telescope (a telescope designed to make observations of the sun)
transit instrument (a telescope mounted on an axis running east and west and used to time the transit of a celestial body across the meridian)
• TELESCOPE (verb)
Meaning:
Crush together or collapse
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context examples:
In the accident, the cars telescoped / my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack
Hypernyms (to "telescope" is one way to...):
crush; mash; squash; squeeze; squelch (to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Make smaller or shorter
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
the novel was telescoped into a short play
Hypernyms (to "telescope" is one way to...):
concentrate; condense; digest (make more concise)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
