Telescopes can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
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| telescope - make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play" | ||
| telescope - crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack" | ||
Noun |
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| telescope - a magnifier of images of distant objects |
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| 1. | noun | The view of Mars through earthly telescopes suggested that all was serene. | |
| 2. | noun | So late as 1610, Galileo, a Florentine, discovered and introduced the use of telescopes, and by applying them to observe the motions and appearances of the heavenly bodies, afforded additional means for ascertaining the true structure of the universe. | |
| 3. | noun | Before astronomers had telescopes, they could only use quadrants to map objects in the sky. | |
| 4. | noun | For centuries, astronomers believed that the Milky Way made up the entire universe. Hubble was among the first to show that the fuzzy patches in the sky seen through telescopes were other galaxies, not distant parts of the Milky Way. | |
| 5. | noun | William's hobby was astronomy and he devoted most of his free time to making more and more powerful telescopes with which to look deeper into space. | |
| 6. | noun | William's reputation as a telescope maker grew to such an extent that he quit his job as a musician and devoted all of his time to the making of telescopes and to astronomy. | |
| 7. | noun | Caroline began to help her brother in the manufacture of telescopes and to share his passion for astronomy. | |
| 8. | noun | He even learned to make his own telescopes to study the sky. | |
| 9. | noun | The telescope Clyde built in 1925 was only the first of more than thirty telescopes he was to build over his lifetime. | |
| 10. | noun | Telescopes have a primary and a secondary mirror. | |
| 11. | noun | The distant worlds observed by Hubble and other telescopes are just the tip of the iceberg, according to a Hubble survey of the center of our Milky Way. The study revealed that our galaxy should be brimming with 100 billion planets, at least one planet for every star. | |
| 12. | noun | The Webb telescope will use infrared light to examine in detail the extrasolar planetary systems found by TESS and other telescopes. | |
| 13. | noun | Since Comet Siding Spring's discovery, astronomers have observed it with many telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope. | |
| 14. | noun | Scientists are sending out spacecraft and pointing telescopes to learn more about the solar system. | |
| 15. | noun | In their heydays, the Mount Wilson 60-inch and 100-inch telescopes were the most powerful instruments of their kind. | |
| 16. | verb | My hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack. |
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| The view of Mars through earthly telescopes suggested that all was serene. | |
| So late as 1610, Galileo, a Florentine, discovered and introduced the use of telescopes, and by applying them to observe the motions and appearances of the heavenly bodies, afforded additional means for ascertaining the true structure of the universe. | |
| Before astronomers had telescopes, they could only use quadrants to map objects in the sky. | |
| For centuries, astronomers believed that the Milky Way made up the entire universe. Hubble was among the first to show that the fuzzy patches in the sky seen through telescopes were other galaxies, not distant parts of the Milky Way. | |
| William's hobby was astronomy and he devoted most of his free time to making more and more powerful telescopes with which to look deeper into space. | |
| William's reputation as a telescope maker grew to such an extent that he quit his job as a musician and devoted all of his time to the making of telescopes and to astronomy. | |
| Caroline began to help her brother in the manufacture of telescopes and to share his passion for astronomy. | |
| He even learned to make his own telescopes to study the sky. | |
| The telescope Clyde built in 1925 was only the first of more than thirty telescopes he was to build over his lifetime. | |
| Telescopes have a primary and a secondary mirror. | |
| The distant worlds observed by Hubble and other telescopes are just the tip of the iceberg, according to a Hubble survey of the center of our Milky Way. The study revealed that our galaxy should be brimming with 100 billion planets, at least one planet for every star. | |
| The Webb telescope will use infrared light to examine in detail the extrasolar planetary systems found by TESS and other telescopes. | |
| Since Comet Siding Spring's discovery, astronomers have observed it with many telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope. | |
| Scientists are sending out spacecraft and pointing telescopes to learn more about the solar system. | |
| In their heydays, the Mount Wilson 60-inch and 100-inch telescopes were the most powerful instruments of their kind. | |
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| My hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack. |
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