different between scope vs massiveness

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

massive +? -ness

Noun

massiveness (usually uncountable, plural massivenesses)

1. The property of being massive.
   • 1896 Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Chapter 2,^[1]

     Her height and massiveness in the low room gave her the look of a huge sibyl, while the strange fragrance of the mysterious herb blew in from the little garden.

   • 1914, H. G. Wells, “The Common Sense of Warfare” in An Englishman Looks at the World (U.S. title: Social Forces in England and America), New York: Harper & Brothers, § 2, pp. 163-164,^[2]

     The progress of invention makes both the big ship and the army crowd more and more vulnerable and less effective. A new phase of warfare opens beyond the vista of our current programmes. Smaller, more numerous and various and mobile weapons and craft and contrivances, manned by daring and highly skilled men, must ultimately take the place of those massivenesses.

   • 1920, G. K. Chesterton, The New Jerusalem, Chapter 11,^[3]

     A Norman capital can be heavy because the Norman column is thick, and the whole thing expresses an elephantine massiveness and repose.

   • 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: William Heinemann, Chapter 11,

     There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo's compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night.