-scope \-scope\ [Gr. skopo`s a watcher, spy. See Scope.]
A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing
(with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope,
telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scope \Scope\, n. [It. scopo, L. scopos a mark, aim, Gr.
skopo`s, a watcher, mark, aim; akin to ?, ? to view, and
perh. to E. spy. Cf. Skeptic, Bishop.]
1. That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind
directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or
accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose;
intention; drift; object. "Shooting wide, do miss the
marked scope." --Spenser.
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Your scope is as mine own,
So to enforce or qualify the laws
As to your soul seems good. --Shak.
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The scope of all their pleading against man's
authority, is to overthrow such laws and
constitutions in the church. --Hooker.
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2. Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for
action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent;
liberty; range of view, intent, or action.
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Give him line and scope. --Shak.
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In the fate and fortunes of the human race, scope is
given to the operation of laws which man must always
fail to discern the reasons of. --I. Taylor.
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Excuse me if I have given too much scope to the
reflections which have arisen in my mind. --Burke.
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An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or
scope. --Hawthorne.
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3. Extended area. [Obs.] "The scopes of land granted to the
first adventurers." --Sir J. Davies.
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4. Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
scope
n 1: an area in which something acts or operates or has power or
control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of
municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this
article"; "within the scope of an investigation";
"outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit
of a world power" [syn: range, reach, orbit, compass,
ambit]
2: the state of the environment in which a situation exists;
"you can't do that in a university setting" [syn: setting,
background]
3: a magnifier of images of distant objects [syn: telescope]
4: electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying
electrical quantities [syn: oscilloscope, cathode-ray
oscilloscope, CRO]
WordNet (r) 2.0
261 Moby Thesaurus words for "scope":
a leg up, actionability, affective meaning, ambit, amount,
ample scope, amplitude, applicability, area, bearing, bigness,
binoculars, blank check, body, breadth, bulk, caliber, capacity,
carry, carte blanche, chance, chromatoscope, clear sight,
clear stage, clearance, color vision, coloring, command, compass,
comprehensiveness, cone vision, connotation, consequence,
constitutional validity, constitutionalism, constitutionality,
coverage, cut, day vision, daylight vision, degree, denotation,
depth, diameter, diapason, dimension, dimensions, discernment,
domination, drift, due process, effect, elbowroom, essence,
expanse, expansion, extension, extent, eye, eye-mindedness,
eyereach, eyeshot, eyesight, fair field, fair game, farsight,
farsightedness, field, field glass, field of view, field of vision,
force, free course, free hand, free play, free scope, freedom,
full scope, full swing, fullness, gamut, gauge, girth, gist, glass,
grade, grammatical meaning, greatness, height, horizon, idea,
impact, implication, import, intension, interval, jurisdiction,
justice, justiciability, kaleidoscope, keen sight, ken, largeness,
latitude, lawfulness, leap, leeway, legal form, legal process,
legalism, legality, legitimacy, legitimateness, length, level,
lexical meaning, liberty, licitness, limit of vision,
line of sight, literal meaning, long rope, magnitude,
maneuvering space, margin, mark, mass, meaning, measure,
measurement, naked eye, night vision, no holds barred, notch,
nuance, occasion, open space, opening, opera glasses, opportunism,
opportunity, orbit, oscilloscope, outlook, outlook over, overtone,
pas, peg, perception, period, peripheral field, peripheral vision,
periscope, perspective, perspicacity, perspicuity, pertinence,
photopia, pitch, pith, place, plane, plateau, play, point,
power of sight, practical consequence, proportion, proportions,
prospect, purport, purview, quick sight, radius, range,
range of meaning, ratio, reach, real meaning, reference, referent,
register, relation, relevance, remove, rightfulness, rod vision,
room, rope, round, rung, scale, scan, scope of vision, scotopia,
sea room, seeing, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense,
sense of sight, shade, shadow, sight, sightedness, sightliness,
significance, signification, significatum, signifie, size, space,
span, span of meaning, spectroscope, spectrum, sphere, spirit,
spread, spy glass, stair, standard, step, stepping-stone,
stereoscope, stint, stretch, structural meaning, substance, sum,
sum and substance, survey, sweep, swing, symbolic meaning,
telescope, tenor, terrestrial telescope, time, tolerance,
totality of associations, transferred meaning, tread,
twilight vision, unadorned meaning, undertone, unobstructed vision,
validity, value, view, vision, vista, visual acuity, visual field,
visual sense, volume, way, wide berth, wideness, width,
zoom binoculars
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
SCOPE
SCalable Object Processing Environment (Creamware)
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
SCOPE
Simple COmmunications Programming Environment (telecommunication)
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
SCOPE
Supervisory Control Of Program Execution (OS, CDC 6000)
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
SCOPE
Software Evaluation and Certification Programme
Europe.
An ESPRIT project.
(1995-04-12)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
scope
The scope of an identifier is the region of a
program source within which it represents a certain thing.
This usually extends from the place where it is declared to
the end of the smallest enclosing block (begin/end or
procedure/function body). An inner block may contain a
redeclaration of the same identifier in which case the scope
of the outer declaration does not include (is "shadowed" or
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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