Antonyms for telescope
ˈtɛl əˌskoʊptele·scope

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1. • Condense
   • Crush

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1. telescope, scopeverb

   a magnifier of images of distant objects

   Synonyms:
   reach, setting, range, cathode-ray oscilloscope, scope, ambit, background, compass, orbit, oscilloscope

2. telescopeverb

   crush together or collapse

   "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

3. telescopeverb

   make smaller or shorter

   "the novel was telescoped into a short play"

How to use telescope in a sentence?

1. Maldivian Home Minister Umar Naseer:

   There's a clear connection between the three. There could be further attacks planned. We're verifying the sniper's background, though a sniffer rifle hasn't yet been found, police have recovered a telescope and bullet used in such rifles. It's now established that the suspect knew that his target was the president. Investigations have confirmed that there was a planned sniper attack on the president.

2. Emily Petroff:

   All we can do is learn from our experience with this discovery and create a more efficient system for next time, we still spend a large amount of time looking for fast radio bursts with the Parkes telescope and the next time we are in the right place at just the right time, we'll be able to act faster than ever before and hopefully solve the mystery once and for all!

3. George Santayana:

   Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

4. Ko Arimatsu:

   This is a real victory for little projects, our team had less than 0.3 percent of the budget of large international projects. We didnt even have enough money to build a second dome to protect our second telescope! Yet we still managed to make a discovery that is impossible for the big projects.

5. J. Gustav White:

   One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.

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