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noun | verb telescopetelescope1 /ˈtɛləˌskoʊp/ ●●○ noun [countable] ETYMOLOGYtelescope1Origin: 1600-1700 Modern Latin telescopium, from Greek teleskopos seeing a long way, from tele- ( ➔ TELE-) + skopos watcher science a piece of scientific equipment shaped like a tube with special lenses inside, used for making distant objects such as stars and planets look larger and closer → see also radio telescope noun | verb telescopetelescope2 verb VERB TABLEtelescope |
Present | I, you, we, they | telescope | | he, she, it | telescopes | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | telescoped | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have telescoped | | he, she, it | has telescoped | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had telescoped | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will telescope | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have telescoped |
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Present | I | am telescoping | | he, she, it | is telescoping | | you, we, they | are telescoping | Past | I, he, she, it | was telescoping | | you, we, they | were telescoping | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been telescoping | | he, she, it | has been telescoping | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been telescoping | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be telescoping | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been telescoping |
1[transitive usually passive] to make a process or set of events happen in a shorter time: be telescoped into something The play’s three acts are telescoped into a two-hour program.2[intransitive, transitive] if something telescopes or you telescope it, it becomes longer or shorter by sliding parts over each other: The legs telescope to make the tripod higher or lower. |