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Telescoped   Listen
verb
Telescope  v. t.  
1.
To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope. (Recent)
2.
To shorten or abridge significantly; as, to telescope a whole semester's lectures into one week.


Telescope  v. i.  (past & past part. telescoped; pres. part. telescoping)  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; to become compressed in the manner of a telescope, due to a collision or other force. (Recent)





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"Telescoped" Quotes from Famous Books



... and thorax being unduly approximated; the dorsal cases by the well-known hump or hunch-back, in which the spinous processes of the collapsed vertebrae constitute the apex of the hump; the thorax is telescoped from above downwards, the ribs are crowded together, the lower ones, it may be, inside the iliac crests, and the sternum projected forwards. The hunch-back from Pott's disease is often a remarkably capable person, both physically ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... the enclosure, which he found to be about three feet in length and about the same in width. His tall figure of six feet four was practically telescoped. ...
— The Southerner - A Romance of the Real Lincoln • Thomas Dixon
... compelled to shoot with one hand above my head, I was handicapped; I was able to shoot twenty-one times in ten seconds. Once we almost telescoped, and I jumped over him—his head must have passed within fifty centimeters of my wheels. That disgusted him; he went away and let me go. I came back with an intake pipe burst, one rocker torn away: the splinters ...
— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux
... another motor—a blundering brute of a motor—bursts out at fifty miles an hour in front of your nose. If you'd reached that point an instant later, your own virtuous automobile and the wretch that isn't yours would certainly have telescoped, and you'd have been sitting in the nearest tree with your head in your lap. But already I begin to notice that you may pretty well count on reaching the danger point (produced by alien autos) at precisely ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... ground face was sheeted with timber. At times polings were placed over the extended segments in order to make room for a second shove, as shown on Plate LXVIII. When the shield was advanced the nuts on the screw rods were loosened and the sections of the hoods were telescoped on to the shield. The idea was ingenious, but proved impracticable, because of the unequal relative movements of the top and bottom of the shield in shoving, bringing transverse strains ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 • James H. Brace, Francis Mason and S. H. Woodard


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