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Telescope vs Magnify - What's the difference?

telescope | magnify |

As verbs the difference between telescope and magnify

is that telescope is to extend or contract in the manner of a telescope while magnify is to praise, glorify (someone or something, especially god).

As a noun telescope

is a monocular optical instrument possessing magnification for observing distant objects, especially in astronomy.

telescope

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A monocular optical instrument possessing magnification for observing distant objects, especially in astronomy.
  • Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
  • Derived terms

    * telescopic * radio telescope * reflecting telescope * refracting telescope * terrestrial telescope

    Verb

    (telescop)
  • To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
  • 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.
  • See also

    * binoculars * microscope

    magnify

    English

    Verb

  • To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially god).
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts X:
  • For they herde them speake with tonges, and magnify God.
  • * 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
  • For he who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declare as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best cov'nant of his fidelity [...].
  • To make (something) larger or more important.
  • * Grew
  • The least error in a small quantitybe proportionately magnified .
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), title=Internal Combustion
  • , chapter=2 citation , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. This only magnified the indispensable nature of the oligopolists.}}
  • To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
  • To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}
  • (intransitive, slang, obsolete) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.
  • (Spectator)

    Derived terms

    * magnifier * magnifying glass * magnification