scope

We don't know, so let's scope the action before having another shoot out.

The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament.

Before scoping the investigation and developing a work plan, it is necessary to establish reasonable goals and objectives.

If we locally scope the user's login name, it won't be accessible from outside this function.

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

`Maybe there was another darker bird and it had flown away before we could scope it?' `Yes there must have been,' came the grim-faced reply.