Scope
[skəʊp] or [skop]
Definition
(noun.) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: 'the range of a supersonic jet'; 'a piano has a greater range than the human voice'; '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'.
Checked by Annabelle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Extended area.
(n.) Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.
(v. t.) To look at for the purpose of evaluation; usually with out; as, to scope out the area as a camping site.
Editor: Sharon
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Purpose, proposal, drift, tendency, aim, mark, intention, intent, purport, design, object, view.[2]. Room, opportunity, margin, range, liberty, latitude, amplitude, free course, free play, full play, elbow room.
Typist: Yvette
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Aim, object, mark, end, design, purpose, intention, drift, room, occasion,opportunity, liberty
ANT:Avoidance, nonintention, pretermission, inadvertence, accident, aimlessness,deviation
Edited by Dorothy
Definition
n. (obs.) a bundle as of twigs.
n. that which one sees space as far as one can see: room or opportunity for free outlook: space for action: the end before the mind: intention: length of cable at which a vessel rides at liberty: a target.—adjs. Scope′ful with a wide prospect; Scope′less purposeless useless.
Typist: Ralph
Examples
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Great scope is given to the natural history of man. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We cannot foretell the scope and power of such a revival; we cannot even produce evidence of its onset. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For there is a difference in the social scope of purposes and the social importance of problems. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Hence it is not surprising that men have not recognized its full scope. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But these are speculations beyond our present scope. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Set going under adequate conditions they are magnets for gathering and retaining an indefinitely wide scope of intellectual considerations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There is too large a scope of country. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Giving full scope to his imagination, he asks if the earth as well as Saturn may not have been surrounded by a ring. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The trenchant divisions between right and wrong, honest and dishonest, respectable and the reverse, had left so little scope for the unforeseen. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- We were so exceedingly genteel, that our scope was very limited. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It would be instructive, but scarcely within the scope of the narrative, to conduct the reader through this extensive plant and see its many interesting operations in detail. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For sins of omission a lack of space affords a reasonable excuse, and for those of commission the great scope of the work is pleaded in extenuation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Consequently it left unimpaired the scope of informational and abstract, or rationalistic studies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- May not even this be a feint that will increase your triumph by affording a wider scope for your revenge? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Typed by Eugenia