telescope
/ˈtɛl.əˌskoʊp/ noun B2- A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
- Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
- A retractable tubular support for lights.
- A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
Plural telescopes
From the library
Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope!
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (“which certainly was not here before,” said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words “DRINK ME,” beautifully printed on it in large letters.
“What a curious feeling!” said Alice; “I must be shutting up like a telescope.”
“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was!
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