Synonyms of the word telescope


TELESCOPECONCENTRATE - CONDENSE - CRUSH - DIGEST - MAGNIFIER - MASH - SCOPE - SQUASH - SQUEEZE - SQUELCH

telescope

  • n. A monocular optical instrument possessing magnification for observing distant objects, especially in astronomy.
  • n. Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
  • v. To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
  • v. To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
  • v. To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.

concentrate

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather…
  • v. To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting…
  • v. To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
  • v. (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
  • n. A substance that is in a condensed form.

condense

  • v. (transitive) To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.
  • v. To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.
  • v. (intransitive, chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
  • adj. (archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.

crush

  • n. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
  • n. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
  • n. Crowd which produces uncomfortable pressure.
  • n. A violent crowding.
  • n. A crowd control barrier.
  • n. An infatuation or affection for.
  • n. The human object of such infatuation or affection.
  • n. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
  • n. A party, festive function.
  • n. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season that this process takes…
  • v. To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity…
  • v. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute.
  • v. To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight.
  • v. To oppress or burden grievously.
  • v. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight…
  • v. To feel infatuation with or unrequited love for.
  • v. (sports) to defeat emphatically.

digest

  • v. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for…
  • v. (transitive) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and…
  • v. (transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive…
  • v. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
  • v. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical…
  • v. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
  • v. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
  • v. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).
  • n. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads…
  • n. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
  • n. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine…
  • n. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

magnifier

  • n. That which magnifies.
  • n. A magnifying glass.

mash

  • n. (obsolete) A mesh.
  • n. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass…
  • n. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt…
  • n. Mashed potatoes.
  • n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
  • n. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.
  • v. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.
  • v. (transitive) In brewing, to convert, (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
  • v. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
  • v. (transitive, Southern US, informal) to press.
  • v. (transitive, Britain) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew (used mainly in Northern…
  • v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
  • n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
  • n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
  • n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex).

scope

  • n. The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
  • n. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
  • n. (computing) The region of program source in which an identifier is meaningful.
  • n. (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
  • n. (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
  • n. (slang) Shortened form of periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
  • v. To perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out.
  • v. (slang) To perform arthroscopic surgery.
  • v. (slang) To examine under a microscope.

squash

  • n. (uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
  • n. (Britain) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
  • n. A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
  • n. (obsolete, countable) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
  • n. (obsolete, countable, pejorative) Something unripe or soft.
  • n. (obsolete, countable) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
  • n. (slang, professional wrestling) An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
  • v. (transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
  • v. (transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.
  • v. to be hit by the vegetable described below.
  • n. (countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
  • n. Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
  • n. The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
  • n. (obsolete, zoo, countable) Muskrat.

squeeze

  • v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
  • v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
  • v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
  • n. A close or tight fit.
  • n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
  • n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
  • n. (slang) A romantic partner.
  • n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
  • n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
  • n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
  • n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
  • n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
  • n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
  • n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

squelch

  • v. (transitive, US) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
  • v. (transitive, radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions…
  • v. (intransitive, Britain) to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
  • v. (intransitive, Britain) to walk or step through a substance such as mud.
  • n. A squelching sound.
  • n. (radio technology) suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting…

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