different between scope vs diapason

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk??p/
• IPA^(key): /?sko?p/
• Hyphenation: scope
• Rhymes: -??p

Etymology 1

From Italian scopo (“purpose”), from Latin scopus (“target”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (skopós), from ????????? (sképtomai), from Proto-Indo-European *spe?-. Etymologically related to skeptic and spectrum.

Noun

scope (countable and uncountable, plural scopes)

1. The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
2. (weaponry) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.

   Synonym: telescopic sight

   • 2014, Sgt. Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis, On Scope: A Sniper Novel, St. Martin's Press (?ISBN)

3. Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.
   • 2001, Mike Hughes, Andy Vass, Strategies for Closing the Learning Gap (page 19)

     It is also true that the vast majority of teachers are highly skilled and experienced professionals who are already doing an excellent job in the classroom, thus leaving relatively little scope for improvement.

   • 2014, Mary Kitt-Neel, Lie Down in Princess Position

     She had in fact put in a resume at another firm that gave their graphics team much more scope.

4. (programming) The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
   • 2001, Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath, Alison Huml, The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, Addison-Wesley Professional (?ISBN), page 72

5. (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
6. (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.

7. (slang) A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
8. (medicine, colloquial) Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• in-scope
• scopeless

Descendants

• ? Irish: scóp

Translations

Verb

scope (third-person singular simple present scopes, present participle scoping, simple past and past participle scoped)

1. (informal, transitive) To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
2. (medicine, colloquial) 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.

3. (programming) 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.

4. (informal) To examine under a microscope.

   The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.

5. (birdwatching, informal) To observe a bird using a spotting scope.

Translations

Etymology 2

Latin scopa

Noun

scope (plural scopes)

1. (obsolete) A bundle, as of twigs.

References

Anagrams

• OPSEC, Pecos, copes, copse

Italian

Noun

scope f

1. plural of scopa

Anagrams

• cespo, pesco, pescò, speco

Latin

Noun

scope

1. vocative singular of scopus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin diapason, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diapasôn), that is ??? (diá, “through”) + ????? (pasôn, “all”) (?????? (khordôn, “notes”)), “through all (notes)”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da???pe?z?n/, /da???pe?s?n/
• Rhymes: -e?z?n, -e?s?n

Noun

diapason (plural diapasons)

1. (music) The musical octave.
2. (by extension, literary) The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument.

   Synonyms: range, scope
3. (music) A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Octave on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Flue pipe#Diapasons on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Organ stop#Classifications of stops on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin diapason, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diapasôn), that is ??? (diá, “through”) + ????? (pasôn, “all”) (?????? (khordôn, “notes”)), “through all (notes)”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dja.pa.z??/

Noun

diapason m (countable and uncountable, plural diapasons)

1. (music, uncountable) range, diapason
2. (countable) a tuning fork

   Synonym: accordoir

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: diapasão

Further reading

• “diapason” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

diapason m (plural diapason)

1. (music) tuning fork

   Synonym: corista

2. diapason

Derived terms

• dare il diapason

Further reading

• diapason on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• diapason in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana