Periscope vs Microscope - What's the difference?
periscope | microscope |
A form of viewing device that allows the viewer to see things at a different height level and usually with minimal visibility.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
(obsolete): A general or comprehensive view.
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To rise and peer around, in the manner of a periscope.
* 1951 , National Geographic Magazine: Volume 99 ,
* 1987 , Field & Stream March 1987 ,
* 2008 , Doug Stamm, The Springs of Florida page 99
* 2010 , Jim Moran, The Sentinel: A Wildfire Story page 236
An optical instrument used for observing small objects.
Any instrument for imaging very small objects (such as an electron microscope).
As nouns the difference between periscope and microscope
is that periscope is a form of viewing device that allows the viewer to see things at a different height level and usually with minimal visibility while microscope is an optical instrument used for observing small objects.As a verb periscope
is to rise and peer around, in the manner of a periscope.periscope
English
(wikipedia periscope)Noun
(en noun)- The waters grew suddenly lighter, and my spirits rose accordingly. I shouted down to those below that I saw daylight ahead, and a great shout of thanksgiving reverberated through the ship. A moment later we emerged into sunlit water, and immediately I raised the periscope and looked about me upon the strangest landscape I had ever seen.
Verb
(periscop)- Thousands of ungainly black-beaked heads would periscope and freeze in the direction of the approaching intruder.
- The second summer I had a great deal of interest but weeks passed before I worked up the nerve to approach her, the confidence finally gained when I caught a queen snake that periscoped within reach, one of the last I ever saw swimming in Cross Creek.
- Areas of barren sand are likely spots to look for its [the turtle's] periscoping head. Its fondness for the bottom is equally matched by its ability to quickly disappear and tunnel into it.
- Her black and white head suddenly popped out from under the covers and periscoped around.