Word Meanings - PHOTOTELESCOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A telescope adapted for taking photographs of the heavenly bodies.

Related words: (words related to PHOTOTELESCOPE)

• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• HEAVENLY
  1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv.
• TELESCOPE BAG
  An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other.
• ADAPTIVE
  Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
• ADAPT
  Fitted; suited. Swift.
• TAKE-IN
  Imposition; fraud.
• ADAPTATION
  1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
• ADAPTORIAL
  Adaptive.
• ADAPTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
• ADAPTER
  A connecting tube; an adopter. (more info) 1. One who adapts.
• ADAPTABILITY; ADAPTABLENESS
  The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.
• TAKE-UP
  That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
• ADAPTION
  Adaptation. Cheyne.
• ADAPTLY
  In a suitable manner. Prior.
• ADAPTIVENESS
  The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
• TAKING-OFF
  Removal; murder. See To take off , under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• OUTTAKE
  Except. R. of Brunne.
• STAKTOMETER
  A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.
• SIDE-TAKING
  A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• UNDERTAKING
  1. The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. Hakluyt. 2. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise. 3. Specifically, the business of an
• RETAKE
  1. To take or receive again. 2. To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
• WATER TELESCOPE
  1. A telescope in which the medium between the objective and the eye piece is water instead of air, used in some experiments in aberration. 2. A telescope devised for looking into a body of water.
• MISTAKE
  1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
• PARTAKER
  1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark. 2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30.
• PAINSTAKER
  One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.