scoped

Verb

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

1. (informal, transitive) 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
2. (colloquial) 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.
3. 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
4. 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.
5. (informal) To examine under a microscope.
   • The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.
6. (informal) 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

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