telescope

telescope is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
2. adjective. To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
3. transitive verb. To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.
4. noun. a magnifier of images of distant objects

   Synonyms: scope

5. verb. make smaller or shorter

   "the novel was telescoped into a short play"

6. verb. crush together or collapse

   "In the accident, the cars telescoped"

   "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"

Synonyms

scope

Common word forms

telescoped, telescopes, telescoping

Words from these letters

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