Antonyms for telescope

Grammar : Verb

Spell : tel-uh-skohp

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp

Definition of telescope

Origin : 1640s, from Italian telescopio (used by Galileo, 1611), and Modern Latin telescopium (used by Kepler, 1613), both from Greek teleskopos "far-seeing," from tele- "far" (see tele-) + -skopos "seeing" (see -scope). Said to have been coined by Prince Cesi, founder and head of the Roman Academy of the Lincei (Galileo was a member). Used in English in Latin form from 1619.

As in compress : verb compact, condense
As in condense : verb abridge
As in fold : verb lay in creases

Example sentences :

The worst I do is to look at them the wrong way of the telescope.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

The night before I had looked at them with a telescope from the foot of the mountain.
Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall

This telescope had not been of great service to him since the autumn of 1671.
Extract from : « The Black Tulip » by Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

Their financial rating was so high that you couldn't see it without a telescope.
Extract from : « Pee-wee Harris » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

This was the great mission of the telescope in Galileo's hands.
Extract from : « Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works » by Edward Singleton Holden

With a telescope this is seen to be two stars, some 5″ apart.
Extract from : « Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works » by Edward Singleton Holden

If the eye is assisted by a telescope, the ratio is quite different.
Extract from : « Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works » by Edward Singleton Holden

He raised his telescope to continue his observation of the buccaneers.
Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini

Telescope in hand on the quarter-deck, Don Miguel was issuing his orders.
Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini

For under the plane there was no world at all, save through the telescope.
Extract from : « Lords of the Stratosphere » by Arthur J. Burks

Synonyms for telescope

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