scope
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Synonyms: score, slope, scape, cope, stope, scop, scopy, shope, scove, scone, scoke
Antonyms: score, slope, scape, cope, stope, scop, scopy, shope, scove, scone, scoke
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Noun
- The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit.
- Environmental impacts lie outside the scope of this report.
- Such transactions fall within the scope of VAT.
- A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity.
- My job doesn't give me much scope for personal development.
- The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
- The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
- The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
- the scope of an adverb
- Ellipsis of any word ending in -scope, such as endoscope, periscope, telescope, microscope, oscilloscope, and so on.
- Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
Verb
- To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
- To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
- The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament.
- To define the scope of something.
- To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
- If we locally scope the user's login name, it won't be accessible from outside this function.
- To examine under a microscope.
- The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.
- To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
Noun
- A bundle, as of twigs.
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