telescope

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UK /ˈtɛl.ɪ.skəʊp/ US /ˈtɛl.əˌskoʊp/

noun 4verb 4

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

powerful | 26-metre, 60-millimetre, etc.

astronomical, optical, radio, space

Astronomers used a powerful astronomical telescope to discover the new planet last year.

VERB + TELESCOPE

use

look at sth with/without, see sth with/without

Through a telescope, astronomers were able to look at distant galaxies that had never been observed before.

look (at sth) through, view sth through

set up

He set up a telescope in the garden to watch the stars last night.

build

Scientists spent fifteen years building a powerful telescope to explore distant galaxies.

PREP

through a/the ~

PHRASES

the wrong end of a telescope

Looking at the problem through the wrong end of a telescope made it seem much smaller than it really was.

Definitions

noun

A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.

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.

It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.

Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).

A retractable tubular support for lights.

In some studios the telescopes are fixed to the lighting grid […]

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.

verb

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.

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 collapse, via cancellation.

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Synonyms

noun — a magnifier of images of distant objects

scope

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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.

Wiktionary

It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope.

Wiktionary

About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen dis

Wiktionary

Hugo rose to his full height, which was triple that of Grunt Buggely’s, even without his neck telescoped.

Wiktionary

We can see distant objects with a telescope.

Tatoeba · #25816

You can see the stars with your naked eye, and even better through a telescope.

Tatoeba · #41981

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