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English to English adjective
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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. |  | source: webster1913
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Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, a telescope bag; telescope table, etc. | | source: webster1913 noun
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a magnifier of images of distant objects | | source: wordnet30
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An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies. | | source: webster1913 verb
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crush together or collapse | | Example: In the accident, the cars telescoped
my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack
source: wordnet30
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make smaller or shorter | | Example: the novel was telescoped into a short play
source: wordnet30
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To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope. | | source: webster1913
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