| Definitions of 'telescope' |
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1. (verb) telescope, scope
a magnifier of images of distant objects
2. (verb) telescope
crush together or collapse
"In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"
3. (verb) telescope
make smaller or shorter
"the novel was telescoped into a short play"
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| Definitions of 'telescope' |
Webster 1913 Dictionary |
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1. (adj) telescope
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
2. (noun) telescope
an optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies
3. (verb) telescope
to cause to come into collision, so as to telescope
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