scope
UK/skəʊp//skoʊp/
scope noun: the breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit. Also the ellipsis of any word ending in -scope.
Noun (1)
scope (countable and uncountable, plural scopes)
- 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.
- Coastie yanked her eye away from the night scope when those big lights were caught by it and amplified in intensity. Her entire view had gone white in an instant. “I can't see!” Temporarily blinded, she let touch become her primary sense, dropped the M40, and grabbed her alternate weapon, an M16...2014, Sgt. Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis, On Scope: A Sniper Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- telescopic sight
- Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity.
- My job doesn't give me much scope for personal development.
- It is also true that the vast majority of teachers are highly skilled and experienced professionals who are already doing an excellent job in the classroom, thus leaving relatively little scope for improvement.2001, Mike Hughes, Andy Vass, Strategies for Closing the Learning Gap, page 19
- The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
- A variable's scope is the region of a program within which the variable can be referred to by its simple name. Secondarily, scope also determines when the system creates and destroys memory for the variable. Scope is distinct from visibility, which applies only to member variables and determines...2001, Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath, Alison Huml, The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 72
- 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
- Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
Verb
scope (third-person singular simple present scopes, present participle scoping, simple past and past participle scoped)
- To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
- We don't know, so let's scope the action before having another shoot out.2004, Don Harris, The Drunk
- “Let's scope the scene.” The gang advanced, searching for humanity.2012, Khalid Patel, Hollow Shotguns
- 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.
- Before scoping the investigation and developing a work plan, it is necessary to establish reasonable goals and objectives.2003, An Introduction to Characterizing Sites Contaminated with DNAPLs, page 10
- The purpose of witness interviews is multi-faceted but generally includes scoping the investigation, understanding the facts and issues at play, and assessing the accountability of individuals and possible defences for the company and[…]2018 January 19, Judith Seddon, Practitioner's Guide to Global Investigations, Law Business Research Ltd., →ISBN
- 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.
- `Maybe there was another darker bird and it had flown away before we could scope it?' `Yes there must have been,' came the grim-faced reply.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 199
Noun (2)
scope (plural scopes)
- A bundle, as of twigs.
Also used as
scope is also the ellipsis of any word ending in -scope.
scope meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
scope in Hindi
- दायरा, दायरे
scope in Marathi
- व्याप्ती
scope in Urdu
- دائرہ کار
scope in Bengali
- পরিধি
More languagesFewer languages
- scope in Malayalam
- വ്യാപ്തി
- scope in Kannada
- ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಿ, ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಿಯನ್ನು, ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಿಯು
- scope in Punjabi
- ਸਕੋਪ
- scope in Tagalog
- saklaw
- scope in Arabic
- حَيِّز ḥayyiz
- scope in Persian
- حوزه howze
- scope in Thai
- ขอบข่าย
Examples of scope in a sentence
- Coastie yanked her eye away from the night scope when those big lights were caught by it and amplified in intensity.2014, Sgt. Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis, On Scope: A Sniper Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
- She had in fact put in a resume at another firm that gave their graphics team much more scope.2014, Mary Kitt-Neel, Lie Down in Princess Position:
- VISITORS to Balijatra will get a scope to learn about the history and richness of classical Odia language and writers who contributed towards enriching it.2025 October 10, “Balijatra to celebrate classical Odia language, its authors in 2025”, in The New Indian Express:
- A variable's scope is the region of a program within which the variable can be referred to by its simple name.2001, Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath, Alison Huml, The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page...
Synonyms of scope
Forms of scope
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | scopes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | scopes |
| present participle | scoping |
| past participle | scoped |
| past | scoped |
Origin of scope
From Italian scopo (“purpose”), from Latin scopus (“target”), from Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-. Etymologically related to skeptic and spectrum.
Derived from Latin scopa.
Words formed from scope
- beyond one's scope
- beyond someone's scope
- in-scope
- scopeless
- scope in
Phrases with scope
- no scope
- scope out
- scope bite
- scope dope
- block scope
- scope block
- scope creep
- scope dopes
- 360 no scope
- global scope
- scope blocks
- static scope
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with scope
Questions about scope
- What does scope mean?
- Scope means the breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit.
- What is scope in Hindi?
- Scope in Hindi is दायरा, दायरे. See Scope meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use scope in a sentence?
- Coastie yanked her eye away from the night scope when those big lights were caught by it and amplified in intensity.
- What part of speech is scope?
- Scope can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce scope?
- Scope is pronounced /skəʊp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of scope?
- The plural of scope is scopes.
Words near scope in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: scope (page history and authors); scope (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scope (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scope (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scope (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scope (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scope (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scope (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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