tele·scope [telescopetelescopestelescopedtelescoping] noun, verb BrE [ˈtelɪskəʊp] NAmE [ˈtelɪskoʊp] noun a piece of equipment shaped like a tube, containing lenses, that you look through to make objects that are far away appear larger and nearer •to look at the stars through a telescope see also ↑radio telescope
Word Origin: mid 17th cent.: from Italian telescopio or modern Latin telescopium, from tele- ‘at a distance’ + -scopium (from Greek skopein ‘look at’).
Example Bank: •I looked at the moon through a telescope. •She set up her telescope on the balcony. •These stars are too faint to been seen without a telescope. •They've built the largest telescope in the world. •We can't simply point a telescope at a star and see its orbiting planets directly. •images from the Hubble space telescope •stars that cannot be seen without a telescope
verb 1. intransitive, transitive ~ (sth) to become shorter, or make sth shorter, by sliding sections inside one another 2. transitive ~ sth (into sth) to reduce sth so that it happens in less time •Three episodes have been telescoped into a single programme. Verb forms:
Word Origin: mid 17th cent.: from Italian telescopio or modern Latin telescopium, from tele- ‘at a distance’ + -scopium (from Greek skopein ‘look at’).
