English Dictionary

scope

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈskəʊp/

動詞

くだけた表現 他動詞 口語

(informal, transitive) To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.

日本語の意味

ざっと調べる / 一通り確認する / 簡易調査する

Before we commit to the renovation, let's scope the attic for structural issues.

改装を決める前に、屋根裏をざっと調べて構造上の問題がないか確認しよう。

意味（1）

(informal, transitive) To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.

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

意味（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.

意味（3）

To define the scope of something.

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

意味（4）

(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.

意味（5）

(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.

意味（6）

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

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.

scopes （ present singular third-person ）

scoping （ participle present ）

scoped （ participle past ）

scoped （ past ）