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• A form of epidiascope that projects images of opaque objects
Example sentence • The church had a collection of episcopes for use during religious services.
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• An early device for observing individual nuclear disintegrations.
Example sentence • The spinthariscopes are delicate scientific instruments used to detect and measure radioactivity.
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• medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane)
Example sentence • The doctor used auriscopes to diagnose the patient's ear infection.
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• Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)
Example sentence • The stargazers gather in the observatory to view celestial bodies using powerful scopes .
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• a long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery
Example sentence • Modern endoscopes have high-definition cameras for clear visualization.
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• a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets
Example sentence • Some people believe that horoscopes can predict their future.
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• magnifier of the image of small objects
Example sentence • Scientists use microscopes to observe tiny organisms.
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• an optical instrument that provides a view of an otherwise obstructed field
Example sentence • The submarine has multiple periscopes for the crew to see above the water.
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• an optical instrument for spectrographic analysis
Example sentence • Scientists use spectroscopes to analyze the composition of distant stars.
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• a complex pattern of constantly changing colors and shapes
Example sentence • She collected different kaleidoscopes from around the world.
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• an informal expression for a mildly depressed state
Example sentence • He's been in the mopes all day.
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• birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
Example sentence • The miners were working in the dark, narrow stopes .
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Example sentence • The technician relied on aeroscopes to assess the air quality in the laboratory.
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• a structurally different form of an element
Example sentence • The study of allotropes is important in the field of materials science.
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• graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
Example sentence • The savannah is a common habitat for antelopes .
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• someone who is elected pope in opposition to another person who is held to be canonically elected
Example sentence • There were several antipopes in the 14th century.
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Example sentence • He consulted the baroscopes to predict the upcoming storm.
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• a South African movie theater
Example sentence • She attended a lecture on the history of bioscopes .
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Example sentence • The boltropes on the sails ensured their stability in the strong winds.
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• An optical instrument used for seeing inside tight spaces, consisting of a rigid or flexible tube with an optical relay inside so that the view through a lens or window at one end of the tube may be seen from a lens or eyepiece in the opposite end of the tube.
Example sentence • With the help of borescopes , engineers can detect defects in infrastructure.
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• A form of endoscope used to examine the ureter and the bladder.
Example sentence • The surgeon used cystoscopes during the bladder surgery.
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Example sentence • Gemologists often carry dichroscopes as part of their toolkit.
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• street names for marijuana
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• take drugs to improve one's athletic performance
Example sentence • He sells dopes to high school students.
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• run away secretly with one's beloved
Example sentence • She elopes with her boyfriend and gets married in secret.
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Example sentence • Most of the population fall into the category of emmetropes .
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• a stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman's abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat
Example sentence • Doctors use fetoscopes to listen to the baby's heartbeat in the womb.
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• a flexible medical instrument involving fiber optics that is used to examine internal organs
Example sentence • The detective used fiberscopes to search for hidden compartments in the suspect's car.
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• an X-ray machine that combines an X-ray source and a fluorescent screen to enable direct observation
Example sentence • The hospital uses fluoroscopes to obtain real-time images of the patient's internal organs.
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Example sentence • The sailors climbed down the footropes to board the ship.
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• a type of endoscope for visually examining the stomach
Example sentence • The doctors used gastroscopes to examine the patient's stomach.
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• the act of groping; and instance of groping
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• feel about uncertainly or blindly
Example sentence • He gropes in the dark for the light switch.
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• rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
Example sentence • The toy drone uses gyroscopes to stabilize and maintain its position in the air.
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• (physics) scientific instrument that traces the path of a charged particle
Example sentence • The hodoscope array is composed of several layers of scintillator hodoscopes .
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• a specific instance of feeling hopeful
Example sentence • I have high hopes for the success of this project.
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• a person with hyperopia; a farsighted person
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• encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license
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• a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen
Example sentence • The film archives contain several kinescopes of classic television shows.
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Example sentence • The soldiers used nightscopes to see in the dark.
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• medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane)
Example sentence • Doctors use otoscopes to examine the ear canal.
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• A section of text forming a coherent thought, suitable for use in a speech.
Example sentence • Biblical scholars often analyze pericopes individually.
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• the head of the Roman Catholic Church
Example sentence • The popes of the Roman Catholic Church are the successors of Saint Peter.
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• a person with presbyopia; someone who is farsighted resulting from the progressive loss with aging of the elasticity of the crystalline lens
Example sentence • As people get older, they may become presbyopes .
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• a deep red garnet used as a gemstone
Example sentence • She collected various pyropes from her travels around the world.
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Example sentence • The radarscopes detected multiple aircraft in the vicinity.
5 1 noun n Example sentence • The climber tied the ropes securely before scaling the mountain.
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Example sentence • The skiascopes in the ophthalmology clinic are outdated and need to be replaced.
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• an elevated geological formation
Example sentence • The skiers navigated the steep slopes with ease.
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