telescope
[noun]
Synonyms:
- glass, spyglass
[verb]
Synonyms:
- shorten, abbreviate, abridge, compress, condense, contract, shrink

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I. tel‧e‧scope¹ /ˈteləskəʊp, ˈtelɪskəʊp $ -skoʊp/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Modern Latin; Origin: telescopium, from Greek teleskopos 'seeing a long way', from tele- ( ⇒ tele-) + skopos 'watcher']
a piece of equipment shaped like a tube, used for making distant objects look larger and closer
through a telescope
Details on the moon’s surface can only be seen through a telescope. ⇒ radio telescope

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II. telescope² verb

1. [transitive] to make a process or set of events happen in a shorter time
be telescoped into something
The whole legal process was telescoped into a few weeks.

2. [intransitive] if something telescopes, the parts of it press together or slide over each other, and it becomes smaller:
The front of the car telescoped when it hit the wall.

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telescope
noun
ADJ. powerful | 26-metre, 60-millimetre, etc. | astronomical, optical, radio, space images from the Hubble space telescope
VERB + TELESCOPE use | look at sth with/without, see sth with/without stars that cannot be seen without a telescope
look (at sth) through, view sth through | set up She set up her telescope on the balcony.
build building the largest telescope in the world
PREP. through a/the ~
PHRASES the wrong end of a telescope He felt as if he were seeing things through the wrong end of a telescope.

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