What's the difference between spyglass and telescope?

Spyglass


Definition:

  • (n.) A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Spyglass bosses Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum are responsible for hits such as The Sixth Sense and the recent Russell Brand comedy Get Him to the Greek .
  • (2) Once in control, creditors intend to install the founders of a far smaller production company, Spyglass Entertainment, to run a slimmed-down version of MGM in the hope of reviving its fortunes.

Telescope


Definition:

  • (n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
  • (a.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
  • (2) But towards the end of the decade, Nasa expects to launch the James Webb Space Telescope , which has been designed to look further back into the history of the universe.
  • (3) However, similarly tested Keplerian telescopes exhibited significantly higher MTF's with vertical gratings.
  • (4) When the unmagnified peripheral visual field was unobstructed during adaptation, VOR gain increases were significantly less than when the unmagnified peripheral visual field was occluded, and were similar to those observed during adaptation without the wearing of telescopic spectacles at all.
  • (5) "When you live over here you see the situation from the other end of the telescope and you see things that English people simply don't."
  • (6) The periodontal and prosthetic treatment were carried out and 16 Konus telescope dentures were applied for 11 patients.
  • (7) An original apparatus and a new kind of mechanical suture were used in experiment and in clinic for the formation of telescopic anastomosis.
  • (8) "The E-ELT will have almost as much light collecting area as all the telescopes ever built, put together," said Professor Niranjan Thatte of Oxford University.
  • (9) 1) In polishing the axial surface of the inner crown of the conic telescope crown system, the milling machine with a polishing disk facilitated specular finishing without causing undercutting in the region from the occlusal surface to the dental cervix.
  • (10) The isolated site is home to several other facilities, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope , and has excellent atmospheric conditions for stargazing.
  • (11) "When I was a boy, I was doing both music and science: I belonged to an astronomy club, we built telescopes, we looked at the stars.
  • (12) Direct blocking by crown blocks, bridge prostheses, connecting bars and telescopes should include, as far as possible, all teeth.
  • (13) The bronchial anastomosis was made by the telescoping technique.
  • (14) Patient acceptance of the telescopic systems was 62%, and of the microscopic systems, 96%.
  • (15) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
  • (16) Telescopic spectacles are used as aids for the visually impaired in order to increase effective visual acuity.
  • (17) A review of 385 proximal fractures of the femur treated with a telescopic screw system revealed that in nine cases the device had cut out of the head of the femur necessitating its removal.
  • (18) The 3.5, 4.0, and 5.0 30-cm Storz bronchoscopes with a 3.95-mm (outside diameter) telescope lens were used in 10 mongrel dogs weighing between 8 and 15 kg.
  • (19) The following therapeutic proposal was adapted: On the maxilla, a three-step procedure: first step: building of metal copings on 13, 16 and 26 and metal-ceramic crowns on 11 and 21, second step: building of telescop crowns on 16 and 26 and clasps on 13, 11 and 21, third step: casting of the removable partial denture framework and soldering to the telescop crowns and clasps.
  • (20) Astronomer Jose Madiedo, who leads the Midas project at the University of Huelva, saw footage of the strike soon after the telescopes' software had processed the impact on 11 September 2013.