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monocle
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?m?n?k?l/
Noun
monocle (plural monocles)
- A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.
- (obsolete) A one-eyed animal.
Translations
See also
- glasses
- spectacles
Anagrams
- locomen
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French monocle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mo??n?.kl?/
- Hyphenation: mo?no?cle
Noun
monocle m (plural monocles, diminutive monocletje n)
- monocle [from mid 19th c.]
Synonyms
- lorgnet
- lorgnon
- oogglas
French
Etymology
From Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).
Noun
monocle m (plural monocles)
- monocle
Descendants
- ? Dutch: monocle
- ? English: monocle
Further reading
- “monocle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
monocle From the web:
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)
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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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