telescope
part of speech
noun (a telescope, telescopes)
meaning for a pupil
A tube with lenses or mirrors that makes far-away things, like stars and planets, look bigger and closer. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons about space, pupils learn that telescopes helped people discover moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn. Some telescopes, like the Hubble and James Webb telescopes, are in space. Phrases: look through a telescope, space telescope, telescope lens.
examples
- We looked at the Moon through a telescope. tree →
- Galileo used a telescope to see Jupiter's moons. tree →
- The Hubble Space Telescope takes photos of faraway galaxies. tree →
- My telescope makes the stars look brighter. tree →
- Pirates used a small telescope to look for ships. tree →
- Astronomers work with huge telescopes. tree →
- Now the Wicked Witch of the West had but one eye, yet that was as powerful as a telescope, and could see everywhere. tree →
note
Countable: a telescope, telescopes. "Tele-" means far, "-scope" means look. A microscope makes tiny things look bigger; a telescope makes far things look bigger. Safety: never look at the Sun through a telescope or binoculars; it can blind you.
In the corpora
- Alice wishes she could "shut up like a telescope", meaning fold down smaller like a pull-out telescope.
- The telescope was invented in the Netherlands in 1608, and Galileo built better ones and turned them to the sky.
- "I saw a man on a hill with a telescope" is ambiguous: the telescope could be yours or the man's.
- Heaven is not a place in the sky that can be seen with a telescope; the Bible describes it with pictures.
- Telescopes such as ALMA in Chile have photographed dusty discs around young stars where new planets are forming right now.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «telescope» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.