telescope vs prism

telescope and prism both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
telescope	Yes	No	Yes	No
prism	Yes	No	No	No

telescope (noun)	prism (noun)
a magnifier of images of distant objects	optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
	a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms

telescope (verb)	prism (verb)
make smaller or shorter
crush together or collapse