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telescope

Noun telescope has 1 sense

telescope, scope - a magnifier of images of distant objects
--₁ is a kind of magnifier
--₁ has parts:
aperture; finder, viewfinder, view finder; prism, optical prism
--₁ has particulars:
astronomical telescope; collimator; solar telescope; transit instrument

Verb telescope has 2 senses

telescope - crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"
--₁ is one way to squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
telescope - make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"
--₂ is one way to digest, condense, concentrate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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