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scope

1

[ skohp ]

noun

  1. extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.:

    an investigation of wide scope.

  2. space for movement or activity; opportunity for operation:

    to give one's fancy full scope.

    Synonyms: liberty, room, sweep, reach, range, extent, breadth, ambit

  3. extent in space; a tract or area.
  4. length:

    a scope of cable.

  5. aim or purpose.
  6. Linguistics, Logic. the range of words or elements of an expression over which a modifier or operator has control:

    In “old men and women,” “old” may either take “men and women” or just “men” in its scope.

  7. (used as a short form of microscope, oscilloscope, periscope, radarscope, riflescope, telescopic sight, etc.)


verb (used with object)

, scoped, scop·ing.
  1. Slang. to look at, read, or investigate, as in order to evaluate or appreciate.

verb phrase

  1. Slang.
    1. to look at or over; examine; check out:

      a rock musician scoping out the audience before going on stage.

    2. to master; figure out:

      By the time we'd scoped out the problem, it was too late.

-scope

2
  1. a combining form meaning “instrument for viewing,” used in the formation of compound words:

    telescope.

-scope

1

combining form

  1. indicating an instrument for observing, viewing, or detecting

    microscope

    stethoscope

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


scope

2

/ skəʊp /

noun

  1. opportunity for exercising the faculties or abilities; capacity for action

    plenty of scope for improvement

  2. range of view, perception, or grasp; outlook
  3. the area covered by an activity, topic, etc; range

    the scope of his thesis was vast

  4. nautical slack left in an anchor cable
  5. logic linguistics that part of an expression that is governed by a given operator: the scope of the negation in PV– ( q r ) is –( q r )
  6. informal.
  7. archaic.
    purpose or aim
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. informal.
    to look at or examine carefully
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • -scopic, combining_form:in_adjective
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Other Words From

  • scopeless adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of scope1

First recorded in 1525–35; from Italian scopo, from Greek skopós “aim, mark to shoot at”; akin to skopeîn “to look at” ( -scope )

Origin of scope2

< New Latin -scopium < Greek -skopion, -skopeion, equivalent to skop ( eîn ) to look at (akin to sképtesthai to look, view carefully; skeptic ) + -ion, -eion noun suffix
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Word History and Origins

Origin of scope1

from New Latin -scopium, from Greek -skopion, from skopein to look at

Origin of scope2

C16: from Italian scopo goal, from Latin scopus, from Greek skopos target; related to Greek skopein to watch
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Synonym Study

See range.
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Example Sentences

The campaign is “much larger in scope and complexity than seasonal influenza or other previous outbreak-related vaccination responses,” said the playbook for states from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From Fortune

Various organizations have already tried to reduce the scope of the new law, and some worrying provisions, though none mentioned here, have been removed.

Documents obtained by Voice of San Diego showed Zandvliet wrote many exemptions for reasons well outside the scope of accepted medical science.

One indication of the scope of those ambitions came recently, when Walmart surprised everyone by teaming up with Microsoft to bid on social-media platform TikTok.

From Quartz

My concerns are with the size, scope and speed of what is being reopened on Monday.

Special praise goes to Kudrow for the way she broadened the scope of Valerie Cherish in Season 2.

Most of the actions taken by prior presidents were more limited in size, scope and benefits.

The story of Alstory Simon has all the scope and scale, the cruel reversals, and pointless waste of proper tragedy.

“We are talking a very broad scope here,” one senior committee staff member said.

I mean, most people on here are literally openly hoping for the leaks to continue and expand in scope and scale.

Not only do children thus of themselves extend the scope of our commands, they show a disposition to make rules for themselves.

What are these numerous Acts of Parliament and what are their objects, scope, and intentions?

Curt as is the cable it has yet scope to show up a little more of our great K.'s outfit.

A few words will suffice to explain the general scope of those alterations.

On reaching the front the volunteer captain soon found scope for his pencil.

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