telescope
verb/ˈtelɪskəʊp/
/ˈtelɪskəʊp/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they telescope | /ˈtelɪskəʊp/ /ˈtelɪskəʊp/ |
| he / she / it telescopes | /ˈtelɪskəʊps/ /ˈtelɪskəʊps/ |
| past simple telescoped | /ˈtelɪskəʊpt/ /ˈtelɪskəʊpt/ |
| past participle telescoped | /ˈtelɪskəʊpt/ /ˈtelɪskəʊpt/ |
| -ing form telescoping | /ˈtelɪskəʊpɪŋ/ /ˈtelɪskəʊpɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] telescope (something) to become shorter, or make something shorter, by sliding sections inside one another
- [transitive] telescope something (into something) to reduce something so that it happens in less time
- Three episodes have been telescoped into a single programme.
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Italian telescopio or modern Latin telescopium, from tele- ‘at a distance’ + -scopium (from Greek skopein ‘look at’).
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