scope
/skoʊp/ verb C2- 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.
He/she/it scopes · Past scoped · Past participle scoped · -ing form scoping
Verb forms
- Base form
- scope
- He/she/it
- scopes
- Past
- scoped
- Past participle
- scoped
- -ing form
- scoping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?
‘There was more scope for imagination,’ she said.
But there is so little scope for the imagination in an asylum--only just in the other orphans.
There was scope for imagination here.
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