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scope out

scope out verb: to examine; to scout; to investigate.

Verb

scope out (third-person singular simple present scopes out, present participle scoping out, simple past and past participle scoped out)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To examine; to scout; to investigate.
    • The conference starts on the 12th, but the building will be open on the 11th if you want to scope out the room ahead of time.
    • Everything basically winds up the way you’d expect, with Jon heading to Dragonstone to scope out Dany while Cersei more or less successfully marshals some Tyrell bannermen and some Qyburn inventions for the defense of King’s Landing. But it doesn’t feel like a foregone conclusion.2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club
    Synonyms:
    check out, scope

scope out meaning in Bengali

scope out in Bengali

পরীক্ষা করা, অনুসন্ধান করা, তদন্ত করা

Synonyms of scope out

Forms of scope out

third-person singular presentscopes out
present participlescoping out
past participlescoped out
pastscoped out

Origin of scope out

Quite possibly from the act of surveying (something) from a distance with a scope, such as a field scope (telescope), binoculars, or periscope, as especially in military reconnoitering.

Questions about scope out

What does scope out mean?
Scope out means to examine; to scout; to investigate.
What is scope out in Bengali?
Scope out in Bengali is পরীক্ষা করা, অনুসন্ধান করা, তদন্ত করা. See Scope out meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is scope out?
Scope out is a verb.
What is the past tense of scope out?
The past tense of scope out is scoped out.

Words near scope out in the dictionary

  1. scope blocks
  2. scope creep
  3. scope dope
  4. scope dopes
  5. scope in
  6. scope out
  7. scoped
  8. scoped enumeration
  9. scoped enumerations
  10. scoped in
  11. scoped out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scope out (page history and authors); scope out (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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