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eyeglass
English
Etymology
eye +? glass
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?a???læs/
Noun
eyeglass (plural eyeglasses)
- An artificial lens, especially one of a pair.
- A monocle.
- An eyepiece.
- (obsolete) The lens of the eye.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
- Ha' not you seen, Camillo? / (But that's past doubt; you have, or your eye-glass / Is thicker than a cuckold's horn)
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
Translations
Anagrams
- glass eye, glasseye
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telescope
English
Etymology
tele- +? -scope.From Latin t?lescopium, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (t?leskópos, “far-seeing”), from ???? (têle, “afar”) + ?????? (skopé?, “I look at”).
Coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei. Doublet of Telescopium.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?t?l?sk??p/
- (US) IPA(key): /?t?l??sko?p/
- Hyphenation: tele?scope
Noun
telescope (plural telescopes)
- A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
- Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
- (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
- 1963, Television Engineering: Report (page 245)
- In some studios the telescopes are fixed to the lighting grid […]
- 1963, Television Engineering: Report (page 245)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
telescope (third-person singular simple present telescopes, present participle telescoping, simple past and past participle telescoped)
- (transitive, intransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
- (transitive, intransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
- (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
See also
- binoculars
- microscope
References
- telescope at OneLook Dictionary Search
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