different between glasses vs telescope

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??læs?z/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??las?z/, /??l??s?z/
• Rhymes: -??s?z

Noun

glasses

1. plural of glass

glasses pl (plural only)

1. Spectacles, frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes.
2. Field glasses; binoculars.

Usage notes

• A sight-improving lens for a single eye is a monocle.
• Though confusion is unlikely, clarity as to quantity is improved by using the expressions "a pair of glasses" (or "a pair of eyeglasses") or "(however many) pairs of eyeglasses".

Synonyms

• (spectacles): eyeglasses (US), specs, bioptikon

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Translations

Verb

glasses

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glass

See also

• bifocals
• contact lens
• monocle
• pince-nez
• shades
• varifocals

Further reading

• glasses on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• gasless

Middle English

Noun

glasses

1. plural of glas

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)

1. A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
2. Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
3. (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
   • 1963, Television Engineering: Report (page 245)

     In some studios the telescopes are fixed to the lighting grid […]

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Translations

Verb

telescope (third-person singular simple present telescopes, present participle telescoping, simple past and past participle telescoped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
3. (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