Definition of Telescope

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Telescope

Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, a telescope bag; telescope table, etc.

An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.

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 cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.

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Telescope Quotations

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
Will Rogers

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Henry David Thoreau

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
Fred Allen

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Theodor Geisel

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
Wernher von Braun

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
Simon Newcomb

Telescope Translations

telescope in Dutch is sterrenkijker, telescoop, verrekijker
telescope in German is Fernrohr, Fernrohr, Fernrohrs
telescope in Italian is telescopio
telescope in Swedish is teleskop, kikare

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