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.
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. Dr. Seuss
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once. Henry David Thoreau
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. Henry Ward Beecher
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
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings
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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