different between scope vs scopa

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 1

From Vulgar Latin sc?pa (“broom”) (Latin sc?pae (“twigs, broom”) ). Compare Spanish escoba (“broom”)

Noun

scopa (plural scopae)

1. Any of various body parts of non-parasitic bees that serve to carry pollen. In parasitic Hymenoptera it refers to a local patch of hairs, regardless of function.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian

Noun

scopa (uncountable)

1. (card games) A Neapolitan card game.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pasco, capos, copsa, pacos, posca

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sc?pa.

Noun

scopa f (plural scope)

1. broom, besom
2. (card games) A Neapolitan card game.
3. (botany) briar, tree heat

Related terms

• scopaio
• scopare
• scopatura
• scopeto
• scopista

Verb

scopa

1. third-person singular present indicative of scopare
2. second-person singular imperative of scopare

Anagrams

• pasco, scapo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *skap-. Cognate with Latin Sc?pi?, sc?pus, scamnum, cippus, Ancient Greek ?????? (sk?pt?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sko?.pa/, [?s?ko?pä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sko.pa/, [?sk??p?]

Noun

sc?pa f (genitive sc?pae); first declension

1. branch of a plant
2. (plural, in Classical Latin) broom, besom

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• sc?p?
• scopula

Descendants

Verb

sc?p?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sc?p?

References

• scopa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scopa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• scopa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette