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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scope
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
room/scope for disagreement (=the possibility that people will disagree about something)
▪ There is room for disagreement about how much independence to give children.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ample
▪ They found ample scope and many became experts at so doing.
▪ They said the ultra-cautious forecasts for public finances left ample scope for tax cuts in next spring's budget.
▪ But there remains ample scope for the middlemen and traders.
▪ This news provided ample scope for gossip in the next few days.
▪ Faced with growing domestic demand, further tree growing seems desirable, offering ample scope for the development of sylvopastoral systems.
broad
▪ Albeit less impressionistic and insightful, Kemp's analysis is of broader scope and greater clarity than de Santillana's.
▪ It has a deeper and broader scope.
▪ Ears to Hear has a broader scope which encompasses radio and television journalism.
considerable
▪ In between such examples there is considerable scope for doubt as to where the line is to be drawn.
▪ It gives considerable scope to NGOs, community organisations and others to put pressure on the state to fulfil its duties.
▪ There is also considerable scope for informed speculation about the feeding mechanisms among the extinct agnathans.
▪ In fact the brain has considerable anatomical scope for being interactive.
▪ They may provide considerable scope for disputes over meaning.
▪ Within the parameters set when a contract is won there may be considerable scope for controlling costs during construction.
▪ Yet, there is often considerable scope to cut this cost without having a knock-on effect on yields.
▪ Nevertheless, there was still considerable scope for policy to affect the situation, as is clearly apparent from Table 1.
enormous
▪ The law allows enormous scope for interpretation and those who interpret are not friends of ours.
▪ First of all, every italicized phrase allows enormous scope for subjectivity and bias.
▪ Above all, I hope that the enormous scope of Presocratic vision is clear from this chapter.
▪ The plans had arrived yesterday, promising enormous scope and opportunities.
full
▪ The enclosed copy of our annual report gives you some idea of the full scope of our work.
▪ When they realized the full scope of their new positions-their predicament-they were willing to accept the risks of delegation.
▪ The Cadbury report is a masterpiece of brevity, but its full scope and implications are just beginning to be realised.
▪ Gain says the acquisition positions it to take on the full scope of designing, building and delivering large-scale multimedia systems.
great
▪ Here he had much greater scope than in London's country.
▪ Such opportunities and experiences offer great scope for professional and personal development. 11.
▪ They are produced in a multiple of shades which allow the greatest scope for individual expression.
▪ The earlier introduction of waxed and french-polished woods had already given greater scope to the imagination of the coffin-maker.
▪ Another tactic has been to give greater scope to consumers vis-à-vis public sector groups.
▪ The more slopes to a roof, the greater the scope for the unusual, but they can restrict size.
▪ With a portfolio such as this, Whitbread offers great scope for career development.
▪ There is a great deal of scope for promotion and career development in a tall hierarchy.
limited
▪ Thus there is only limited scope for crop and livestock production in Lewis and Harris.
▪ The 1964-70 Labour government found that its alliance with the trade unions limited scope for action in this field.
▪ It is investigative journalism of a very limited scope.
▪ But anomalies are bound to arise with any investigative scheme of limited scope.
▪ In other words, it has a most limited scope.
▪ Since there is a limited scope for polished versification of good sense and elegant learning, poetry declines towards extinction.
▪ His contribution was professional, but not more than that, within the limited scope available.
▪ The remarkable aspect of the first, the investigative, stage is the limited scope given to the police.
little
▪ There is therefore little or no scope for the clearing member who is not also a market member.
▪ There is little scope and seemingly no consideration for a contract by the valuer as principal.
▪ There is little scope for such matters to be controlled from within neighbourhoods by the people living within them.
▪ In some cases, such as the regional development grant, there was little scope for re-allocation as spending was demand-led.
▪ Prices and conditions were so controlled that there was little scope for initiative.
▪ There is little scope for the sort of chandeliers-and-roller-skates production evident in previous shows.
▪ Given this ambivalence towards political authority, there is little scope in the United States for heroic leadership.
▪ There is little time, and little scope for an in-depth analysis of the political-economic context of the conservation programme.
narrow
▪ Do not go too narrow in your scope because many litigation matters affect personal injury.
▪ Still, Clark downplayed the significance of the review, noting its narrow scope.
▪ The section, however, has a narrow scope applying only to directors, officers, and large shareholders.
▪ Its weakness lies in its very narrow scope.
wide
▪ It also seems to be so wide in scope that it could encompass almost anything.
▪ The first relates to the extraordinarily wide scope of the warrants.
▪ The law of contempt is a doctrine of wide scope which manifests itself in a variety of types of contempt.
▪ This report was evidently wide enough in scope to appeal to both free-trade and interventionist Liberals.
▪ Rowntree attempted no detailed quantification of rural poverty, in view of the wide scope of his inquiry.
▪ It has therefore drafted a Second General Directive, similar in principle, but much wider in scope than the First.
▪ As you said in London, Maggie works on a wide scope.
■ VERB
allow
▪ The frescoes allow more scope, but even they show little more than one event at a time.
▪ First of all, every italicized phrase allows enormous scope for subjectivity and bias.
▪ The law allows enormous scope for interpretation and those who interpret are not friends of ours.
▪ They are produced in a multiple of shades which allow the greatest scope for individual expression.
▪ Presenting less raw data might have allowed more scope to look at certain issues in more depth.
▪ But it is here that the long-standing personal relationship between borrower and lender allows scope for abuse.
▪ I might have called myself Ross Trenear:. which would have allowed a little more scope - but not much.
▪ A more generous format would have allowed her more scope.
broaden
▪ Lord Reid's judgment significantly broadens the potential scope of review.
▪ This meeting broadened the scope of the program by including topics which initially appeared to be too advanced for the developing countries.
▪ Allow pupils in group or personal study to take advantage of national databanks and broaden the scope of their study 5.
▪ Republicans are complaining that Democrats wanted to broaden the scope but are now objecting to the cost of doing so.
▪ I further suggested that he broadened the scope of the drama lesson by including all sorts of direct sense experiences.
▪ In this study we deliberately broadened the scope of the reporting under scrutiny.
▪ He broadened the scope of the Collection through the acquisition of works by early Renaissance painters.
▪ Here we argue that a comprehensive analysis should broaden the scope of the analysis to include conservationists and governments.
define
▪ It is concerned with defining the scope of judicial review.
▪ States could define the amount and scope of benefits to be provided.
▪ Similarly, some ways in which the survey is regarded define the scope of social science for its exponents.
▪ At bottom, interests theories define the scope of loss redistribution which the law imposes as a tax upon economic relations.
determine
▪ What is the question to be asked when one wishes to determine the scope of the authority of law?
▪ On the other hand the thesis allows maximum flexibility in determining the scope of authority.
▪ This enables anyone to look up and inspect the patent specification to determine its scope.
expand
▪ Since about 1840 they had been expanding the scope of their products to include the whole range of cotton-processing machinery.
▪ As the special economic zones expanded, the scope of the market expanded.
▪ He might have expanded the scope of this intriguing remark.
▪ By 1996 the strategy had succeeded in significantly expanding the scope of school-to-work in Tulsa.
▪ Beto continued the policy but expanded the scope of inmate productivity to include building on a large scale.
▪ This offers you an opportunity to expand the scope of adventuring in the Castle greatly.
▪ The remaining seven chapters, many of which have been introduced in the second edition, considerably expand the scope of coverage.
extend
▪ We have already extended the scope of the fund-holding scheme to allow general practitioners to provide services such as community nursing.
▪ It extends the scope of existing money laundering offences to cover the proceeds of other crimes.
▪ By doing this you can effectively extend the scope of the language.
▪ They do not extend the scope of authority covered by the main argument.
fall
▪ So far as this is no more than a cost-cutting exercise it falls outside the scope of this article.
▪ Yet most of these developments fall outside the scope of our expectations and often appear to be puzzling anomalies.
▪ As such, they fall outside the scope of this particular discussion.
▪ The organization could not and did not meet every need, and some needs fell outside its scope.
▪ But, the judge said, such matters did not fall within the scope of the duty of a statutory auditor.
▪ The general rule was that a company could lawfully do only that which fell within the scope of the objects clause.
▪ All this I found enthralling, but unfortunately it fell outside the scope of Oxford's history school.
give
▪ However, the speed with which copycat phenomena sometimes appear gives no scope for video nasties being the link.
▪ The earlier introduction of waxed and french-polished woods had already given greater scope to the imagination of the coffin-maker.
▪ It gives considerable scope to NGOs, community organisations and others to put pressure on the state to fulfil its duties.
▪ It gives the courts scope to be flexible and to take the facts of a particular case into account.
▪ Second, competition is difficult to ensure, giving scope for monopolistic abuse.
▪ Another tactic has been to give greater scope to consumers vis-à-vis public sector groups.
▪ Photoshop has always given users the scope to create their own filter effects.
increase
▪ The twentieth century had already seen the steadily increasing scope of local government.
▪ The mixing together of financial services has increased the scope for trading on the basis of inside information.
▪ As economic satisfactions have increased, so the scope for dissatisfaction on social issues may also have increased.
leave
▪ The mechanical following of rules would leave little scope for discretion to be exercised.
▪ The framework of the agreement allows new targets for periods beyond 2010, leaving scope for further deep cuts in the future.
▪ This leaves plenty of scope for Janine to reduce this further to lose extra weight.
▪ Combined with the suddenness of his fall, this left no scope for ambitious regional leaders to emerge.
▪ They said the ultra-cautious forecasts for public finances left ample scope for tax cuts in next spring's budget.
▪ From these it is clear that Mr Williamson has left plenty of scope for a sequel.
lie
▪ Surface decoration is another exception because this lies clearly within the scope of registered designs.
▪ He decided to defend slavery as a domestic arrangement that lay beyond the scope of busybodies.
▪ University lecturers in the humanities are making increasing use of computers for teaching purposes; but this too lies outside my scope.
▪ Exhaustive assessment of the probable incidence of such eventualities lies outside the scope of these pages.
limit
▪ Altitude, aspect, and slope may further limit the scope.
▪ He much preferred to limit the scope of his inquiry to the field of geometrics.
▪ The slump in profits has limited the scope for corporation tax offsets but economic recovery should help ease the problem.
▪ This new Star Tech effort seems much more limited in scope -- computers, games and electronic gizmos.
▪ The Government have taken no action to limit the authorities' scope for charging.
▪ In the civil case, the plaintiffs sought to shield him from such harsh treatment by limiting the scope of his testimony.
▪ The neo-Confucians, by contrast, limited the scope of human destructive power to humanity itself.
offer
▪ Retirement in poverty may offer little scope for creative use of leisure.
▪ Such opportunities and experiences offer great scope for professional and personal development. 11.
▪ Borders offer more scope for imagination.
▪ Such systems offer scope to allow aircraft maintenance engineers to transfer between aircraft types more easily.
▪ The rugged and capacious airframe offers plenty of scope for civilian operators.
▪ Pettitt sees urban services in particular offering vast scope for expansion as city fathers wake up to the dangers from the car population explosion.
▪ Grains, pasta and pulses offer unlimited scope.
▪ Continuous-process technology offers more scope for self-actualisation than machine and assembly-line technologies.
provide
▪ The latter is likely to provide some scope for active involvement in the worshipping and musical life of the parish.
▪ All are located in close proximity to one another, providing scope for multiple syndicate as well as plenary sessions.
▪ We will provide improved scope for contractors to carry mail to final delivery offices.
▪ I think this provides scope for an investigation.
▪ They may provide considerable scope for disputes over meaning.
▪ Grasslands provide more scope for combining conservation and good livestock husbandry.
▪ The pessimistic tone provides little hope that the Bundesbank will provide scope for Britain to reduce interest rates.
reduce
▪ The narrow band would reduce the scope for incidental devaluation.
restrict
▪ Those who prefer limited, selective superficial policies exert pressure to restrict the scope of the categories.
▪ A system of guaranteed successions did exist, but was much more restricted in its scope.
▪ The statutory provision is restricted in scope.
▪ Is it restricted in its scope to words spoken?
▪ This is because, as we have seen, judicial review is not restricted in its scope to governmental bodies.
widen
▪ Whilst being very happy in a secretarial role I would like to widen my scope.
▪ She had read the words, widen your scope, in a phrase book.
▪ The Law Society, which represents solicitors, welcomed the report, which would widen solicitors' scope for fee-earning.
▪ This raises the question whether these words widen the scope for challenge.
▪ Many authorities are widening the scope of discussion with general practitioners to develop appropriate means of local involvement.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A clear statement of the goal and scope of a research project is a useful reference point.
▪ I'm afraid the matter falls outside the scope of this enquiry.
▪ It was determined that the Commissioner had been acting within the scope of his official duties.
▪ Regulations are important in markets that are increasingly international in scope.
▪ Student science projects should vary in length and scope.
▪ The ruling party has granted concessions of considerable scope.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Considering the scope, the trips are fairly inexpensive.
▪ In some cases, such as the regional development grant, there was little scope for re-allocation as spending was demand-led.
▪ Many of the amendments have been introduced to clarify the meaning of the regulations and do not change their scope.
▪ Roller blinds offer a good deal of scope through colour and fabric combinations, from floral patterns to bold geometric prints.
▪ The scope and limits of teachers' end students' freedom of association is the focus of this chapter.
▪ The first is the question of its scope.
▪ The result of this is that the law relating to fraud and commercial affairs in general is strictly limited in its scope.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scope

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.

    Your scope is as mine own, So to enforce or qualify the laws As to your soul seems good.
    --Shak.

    The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church.
    --Hooker.

  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.

    Give him line and scope.
    --Shak.

    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.

    Excuse me if I have given too much scope to the reflections which have arisen in my mind.
    --Burke.

    An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or scope.
    --Hawthorne.

  3. Extended area. [Obs.] ``The scopes of land granted to the first adventurers.''
    --Sir J. Davies.

  4. Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scope

"extent," 1530s, "room to act," from Italian scopo "aim, purpose, object, thing aimed at, mark, target," from Latin scopus, from Greek skopos "aim, target, object of attention; watcher, one who watches" from metathesized form of PIE *spek-yo-, from root *spek- "to observe" (cognates: Sanskrit spasati "sees;" Avestan spasyeiti "spies;" Greek skopein "behold, look, consider," skeptesthai "to look at;" Latin specere "to look at;" Old High German spehhon "to spy," German spähen "to spy"). Sense of "distance the mind can reach, extent of view" first recorded c.1600.

scope

"instrument for viewing," 1872, abstracted from telescope, microscope, etc., from Greek skopein "to look" (see scope (n.1)). Earlier used as a shortening of horoscope (c.1600).

scope

"to view," 1807, from the source of scope (n.2). Related: Scoped; scoping.

Wiktionary
scope

n. 1 The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain. 2 A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target 3 (context computing English) The region of program source in which an identifier is meaningful. 4 (context logic English) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part. 5 (context linguistics English) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies. 6 (context slang English) Shortened form of periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope. vb. 1 To perform a cursory investigation, as ''to scope out''. 2 (context slang English) To perform arthroscopic surgery. 3 (context slang English) To examine under a microscope.

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WordNet
scope

  1. n. 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]

Wikipedia
Scope (computer science)

In computer programming, the scope of a name binding – an association of a name to an entity, such as a variable – is the part of a computer program where the binding is valid: where the name can be used to refer to the entity. In other parts of the program the name may refer to a different entity (it may have a different binding), or to nothing at all (it may be unbound). The scope of a binding is also known as the visibility of an entity, particularly in older or more technical literature – this is from the perspective of the referenced entity, not the referencing name. A scope is a part of a program that is or can be the scope for a set of bindings – a precise definition is tricky (see below), but in casual use and in practice largely corresponds to a block, a function, or a file, depending on language and type of entity. The term "scope" is also used to refer to the set of all entities that are visible or names that are valid within a portion of the program or at a given point in a program, which is more correctly referred to as context or environment.

Strictly speaking and in practice for most programming languages, "part of a program" refers to "portion of the source code (area of text)", and is known as lexical scope. In some languages, however, "part of a program" refers to "portion of run time (time period during execution)", and is known as dynamic scope. Both of these terms are somewhat misleading – they misuse technical terms, as discussed in the definition – but the distinction itself is accurate and precise, and these are the standard respective terms. Lexical scope is the main focus of this article, with dynamic scope understood by contrast with lexical scope.

In most cases, name resolution based on lexical scope is straightforward to use and to implement, as in use one can simply read backwards in the source code to determine to which entity a name refers, and in implementation one can simply maintain a list of names and contexts when compiling or interpreting a program. Basic difficulties arise in name masking, forward declarations, and hoisting, while considerably subtler ones arise with non-local variables, particularly in closures.

Scope (charity)

Scope is a disability charity working with disabled people and their families in England and Wales. It runs support services such as schools, a college, residential care, training, short breaks and runs a helpline providing information and advice on disability. Scope also campaigns for the full inclusion and equal participation of disabled people in society.

Scope

The word scope may refer to many different devices or viewing instruments, constructed for many different purposes. Uses of scope or scopes may refer to:

Scope (Irish TV series)

SCOPE was a science television series produced in conjunction with Irish broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). Each show was a 25-minute, fast moving ' MTV’-style programme targeting young people. It aimed to interest young people in science and engineering and to give a wide perspective on the range of careers available in these areas.

The 2007 series was the fourth in successive years and visited a wide range of locations, from Dublin to Las Vegas, Nevada. It covered topics such as ecological footprints, sleep deprivation, gravity and the science of laughter.

SCOPE was an initiative of the Discover Science & Engineering (DSE) awareness programme, which is managed by Forfás on behalf of the Office of Science and Technology at the Department Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Scope (mouthwash)

Scope is a brand of mouthwash made by Procter & Gamble. It was introduced in 1966, and for many years has been positioned in the marketplace as the purportedly better-tasting alternative to Listerine, the longtime dominant mouthwash product.

Originally available only in mint flavor, Scope is still currently available in original mint (green), but also in a peppermint (blue) & new Scope White. The Citrus Splash flavor was discontinued due to insufficient demand to meet the slightly higher cost of production. There is a new Scope Outlast and a new logo; the old logo on the scope mouthwash is still on sale in available stores. Scope also manufactures "Dual-Blast" mouthwash, which is claimed to remove odors such as garlic and onion from the mouth and throat. Scope is currently being marketed as part of Proctor & Gamble's Crest brand

On March 26, 2013 Scope introduced a viral video campaign for a bacon flavored mouthwash. It was intended as an April Fools' Day joke.

Scope (project management)

In project management, the term scope has two distinct uses: Project Scope and Product Scope.

Scope involve getting information required to start a project, and the features the product would have that would meet its stakeholders requirements.

Project Scope: "The work that needs to be accomplished to deliver a product, service, or result with the specified features and functions." Product Scope: "The features and functions that characterize a product, service, or result."

Notice that Project Scope is more work-oriented, (the hows,) while Product Scope is more oriented toward functional requirements. (the whats.)

If requirements aren't completely defined and described and if there is no effective change control in a project, scope or requirement creep may ensue.

Scope (Canadian TV series)

Scope is a Canadian anthology television series which aired on CBC Television from 1954 to 1955.

Scope (Australian TV series)

Scope is an Australian children science program which aired on Network Ten from 2005 until 31 October 2013. The program moved to Eleven on 7 November 2013 at 8am Thursdays.

Scope (magazine)

Scope was a South African weekly men's lifestyle magazine. The magazine was launched in the 1960s and was controversial for challenging Apartheid South Africa's strict censorship laws with its bikini-clad cover girls. The weekly was published in Durban by Republican Press until its final issue in 1996. At its peak, it was South Africa's best-selling English magazine, with a circulation of 250,000.

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Usage examples of "scope".

Presently, amidst the groanings of his spirit, it was revealed to Louis what he should do to wipe out his guilt, and these old dreams merged suddenly into a plan of scope and grandeur befitting a king who had put his soul in jeopardy and brought anathema upon his people.

The more she exerted herself to bend his resolution, and the more scope she gave to the unstudied expression of her artless sentiments, the more inextricably was the magician caught, and the more firm and inexorable was his purpose.

But without approving the extreme doctrine which General Jackson announced with the applause of his party, it is surely not an unreasonable assumption that in the case of a statute which has had no judicial interpretation and whose meaning is not altogether clear, the President is not to be impeached for acting upon his own understanding of its scope and intent:--especially is he not to be impeached when he offers to prove that he was sustained in his opinion by every member of his Cabinet, and offers further to prove by the same honorable witnesses that he took the step in order to subject the statute in dispute to judicial interpretation.

Imagination seized on distortions and ran rampant, until quivering flesh balked at mapping the scope of an ordeal driven amok.

Miss Bloomer, having lost her mother in early life, and her father being devoted to the chase, pedestrianism, and other athletic sports congenial to most country gentlemen, the young lady, his only child, had ample scope for indulging her inclinations.

All the virtues peculiar to American technique are, almost of a certainty, effects and not causes of the scope and homogeneity of the market.

In the collection he parodies some of the naive but popular futurological scenarios, while hypothesizing on ideas whose extravagance extends beyond the scope of contemporary scientific theories.

Magic Brown and Red Nicholson had leveled in on the front gate through their Litton M92 Starlight 3-power scopes.

He peered through the Litton M921 3-power starlight scope mounted on the weapon.

Their arid soil gave little scope to the territorial magnate, who was excluded from politics by the growing absolutism of the dynasty, and the government found it well to employ at a distance forces that might be turbulent at home.

He brought the glass end of the black scope up to his right eye, shut his left, and pointed it down, squaring in on Lo Manto as he ran toward Stalli, firing off four rounds in his direction.

Bertz moved his finger along the edge of the trigger, his eye still at the scope, Lo Manto well within the kill range, the shot sure to penetrate center mass.

I pictured Messinger across the street with a bolt-action sniper rifle with a l0x scope trained so he could blow my head off the minute I stirred.

Or on that loneliest of eves when afar and benighted we stood, She who upheld me and I, in the midmost of Egdon together, Confident I in her watching and ward through the blackening heather, Deeming her matchless in might and with measureless scope endued.

It has full scope under the Ordinances of the Scottish Universities to train women medical students in Clinical Midwifery if it had a sufficient number of beds.