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Definition: Telescoped |
TelescopedAdjective1. Shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another; "a miracle that anyone survived in the telescoped cars"; "years that seemed telescoped like time in a dream". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "telescoped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Synonym: TelescopedSynonym: shortened (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: cross classification (information), telescoped array, telescoped package (chemical industry, industry). |
Crosswords: Telescoped |
| English words defined with "telescoped": shortened ♦ telescope. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "telescoped": telescoped array. (references) |
| "Telescoped" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 35.71% of the time. "Telescoped" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 35.71% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 35.71% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 28.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "telescoped": telescoped array. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "telescoped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 挤' (Telescoping). (various references) | ||||
German | ineinandergeschoben. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 끼워넣" (Embedded, Imbedded). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | elescopedtay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Telescoped" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: telascope, teleoscope, telescoope, telescop, teliscope, telscope. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-l-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: telescope. | |
-2 letters: closeted, coleseed, depletes, deselect, selected, steepled. | |
-3 letters: celeste, cestode, coldest, deepest, deletes, deplete, elected, escoted, pestled, sleeted, speeled, steeled, steeped, steeple. | |
-4 letters: cleped, clepes, closed, closet, costed, delete, depose, depots, despot, eldest, elects, eloped, elopes, epodes, oldest, peeled, pelted, pestle, posted, scoped, secede, seeled, seeped, select, sloped, speedo, stoled, stoped, tepees, topees. | |
-5 letters: cedes, celts, cepes, cetes, clepe, clept, clods, clops, close, clots, codes, coeds, colds, coled, coles, colts, coped, copes, copse, coset, coted, cotes, decos, deeps, deets, deles, delts, depot, doest, dolce, doles, dolts, dopes, dotes, elect, elope, epees, epode, escot, estop, leets, lodes, loped, lopes, opted, pedes, peels, peles, pelts, pesto, plods, plots, poets, poled, poles, posed, scold, scope, sleep, sleet, slept, slope, socle, soled, speed, speel, spelt, spode, steed, steel, steep, stele, stole, stope, teels, teles, telos, tepee, toled, toles, toped, topee, topes. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-e-l-o-p-s-t" | |
+3 letters: preadolescent. | |
+4 letters: electrodeposit, overspeculated, preadolescents, splenectomized. | |
+5 letters: electrodeposits, electrophoresed, pseudocoelomate, septendecillion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6C 65 73 63 6F 70 65 64 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . .-.. . ... -.-. --- .--. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110011 01100011 01101111 01110000 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e l e s c o p e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006C 0065 0073 0063 006F 0070 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54717871856981827170 |
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