Television vs Telescope - What's the difference?
television | telescope |
(uncountable) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
(countable) A device for receiving television signals and displaying them in visual form.
(uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
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).
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.
As nouns the difference between television and telescope
is that television is an electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound while telescope is a monocular optical instrument possessing magnification for observing distant objects, especially in astronomy.As verbs the difference between television and telescope
is that television is to watch television while telescope is to extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.television
English
(wikipedia television)Noun
- It’s a good thing that television doesn’t transmit smell.
- I have an old television in the study.
- fifty-seven channels and nothing on television