microscope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós)
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
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Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin mīcroscopiumlbor.
Italian microscopiobor.
English microscope
From New Latin microscopium and Italian microscopio, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to look at”), equivalent to micro- + -scope.
Affixes: micro-
-scope
Inflected forms:
form: microscopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: microscopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: microscoping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: microscoped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: microscoped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An optical instrument used for observing small objects.
pos: noun
examples: That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable.
Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
gloss: Any instrument for imaging very small objects (such as an electron microscope).
pos: noun
gloss: To examine with a microscope, to put under a microscope (literally or figuratively).
pos: verb
examples: It has a strong germicidal action, as can be verified by staining and microscoping the pus, the characteristic micro-organisms disappearing rapidly under its use.
Wright (1959), using the standard and less laborious technique of microscoping the centrifuged deposit of a sample of urine, found that 21.6% of males attending life insurance examinations had more than 10 red blood cells per high power field (rbc/hpf).
Related words: magnifying glass
telescope
Derived words: atomic force microscope
bimicroscope
biomicroscope
colpomicroscope
compound microscope
cryomicroscope
cryo-transmission electron microscope
dissecting microscope
electromicroscope
electron microscope
endomicroscope
epifluorescence microscope
field emission microscope
fluorescence microscope
fluoromicroscope
interference microscope
light microscope
microscopal
microscope slide
microscopial
microscopic
microscopical
microscopist
microscopy
monochromated scanning transmission electron microscope
optical microscope
otomicroscope
oxyhydrogen microscope
petrographic microscope
phase contrast microscope
photomicroscope
projection microscope
reflecting microscope
scanning electron microscope
scanning transmission electron microscope
scanning tunneling microscope
simple microscope
solar microscope
spectromicroscope
stereomicroscope
stereo microscope
stimulated emission depletion microscope
supermicroscope
telemicroscope
transmission electron microscope
ultramicroscope
under the microscope
videomicroscope
X-ray microscope
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