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Definitions for Scopes

[1] John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
[2] extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
[3] space for movement or activity; opportunity for operation: to give one's fancy full scope.
[4] extent in space; a tract or area.
[5] length: a scope of cable.
[6] aim or purpose.
[7] Linguistics , Logic . the range of words or elements of an expression over which a modifier or operator has control: In “old men and women,” “old” may either take “men and women” or just “men” in its scope.
[8] (used as a short form of microscope, oscilloscope, periscope, radarscope, riflescope, telescopic sight, etc.)
[9] Slang . to look at, read, or investigate, as in order to evaluate or appreciate.
[10] scope out , Slang . to look at or over; examine; check out: a rock musician scoping out the audience before going on stage. to master; figure out: By the time we'd scoped out the problem, it was too late.
[11] opportunity for exercising the faculties or abilities; capacity for action plenty of scope for improvement
[12] range of view, perception, or grasp; outlook
[13] the area covered by an activity, topic, etc; range the scope of his thesis was vast
[14] nautical slack left in an anchor cable
[15] logic linguistics that part of an expression that is governed by a given operator: the scope of the negation in PV– (q ∧ r ) is –(q ∧ r )
[16] informal short for telescope, microscope, oscilloscope
[17] archaic purpose or aim
[18] informal to look at or examine carefully

Words related to Scopes

breadth, outlook, capacity, extension, purview, sphere, opportunity, radius, leeway, fullness, ambit, span, area, liberty, field, play, run, reach, confines, latitude

Origin of Scopes

1525–35; < Italian scopo < Greek skopós aim, mark to shoot at; akin to skopeîn to look at (see -scope)

Other words from Scopes

scope·less , adjective

Word origin for Scopes

C16: from Italian scopo goal, from Latin scopus, from Greek skopos target; related to Greek skopein to watch

Synonyms for Scopes

breadth, capacity, extension, opportunity, outlook, purview, sphere, ambit, amplitude, area, compass, comprehensiveness, confines, field, freedom, fullness, latitude, leeway, liberty, margin, orbit, play, radius, reach, room, run, space, span, wideness, elbow room, field of reference