Antonyms for telescoped


Grammar : Adj, verb
Spell : tel-uh-skohp
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp


Definition of telescoped

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 concentrated : adj condensed, reduced
  • As in compress : verb compact, condense
  • As in condense : verb abridge
  • As in fold : verb lay in creases
Example sentences :
  • It is true that this process may be telescoped through the operation of the word-habit.
  • Extract from : « The Analysis of Mind » by Bertrand Russell
  • "Lima" Bean's ribs were telescoped, and there wasn't a good shin in the house.
  • Extract from : « At Good Old Siwash » by George Fitch
  • The train was telescoped, and many passengers were terribly hurt.
  • Extract from : « The Story of My Life, volumes 4-6 » by Augustus J. C. Hare
  • What they stand for is telescoped, as it were, into what they are.
  • Extract from : « Essays in Experimental Logic » by John Dewey
  • In some instances the cartilage is “telescoped” into the crushed end of the bone.
  • Extract from : « Scurvy Past and Present » by Alfred Fabian Hess
  • So Browning's characters all have the Browning abundance of telescoped metaphor.
  • Extract from : « The Critical Game » by John Albert Macy
  • Time had telescoped and he was back again in the early eighties.
  • Extract from : « The Lost Valley » by J. M. Walsh
  • His silk hat had been telescoped in the process of smacking a Frenchman's eye.
  • Extract from : « The Three Black Pennys » by Joseph Hergesheimer
  • Suppose two such globes of energy, covered with dust, were to be telescoped or attached together, would you marvel at the fact?
  • Extract from : « Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. » by John Uri Lloyd
  • A narrow planking ran along each side of the telescoped boxes, and upon these frail foundations we stood to view the sluicing.
  • Extract from : « Alaska » by Ella Higginson

Synonyms for telescoped

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