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Scope (noun)
The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
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Scope (noun)
A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
“telescopic sight”
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Scope (noun)
The region of program source in which an identifier is meaningful.
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Scope (noun)
The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
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Scope (noun)
The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
“the scope of an adverb”
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Scope (noun)
A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
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Scope (noun)
Short for any medical procedure that ends in the suffix endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.}}
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Scope (verb)
To perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out.
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Scope (verb)
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.”
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Scope (verb)
To examine under a microscope.
“The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.”
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Scale (noun)
A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
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Scale (noun)
An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
“Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.”
“The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on the open-ended Richter scale.”
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Scale (noun)
Size; scope.
“The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.”
“There are some who question the scale of our ambitions.”
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Scale (noun)
The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
“This map uses a scale of 1:10.”
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Scale (noun)
A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced
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Scale (noun)
A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
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Scale (noun)
A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
“the decimal scale; the binary scale”
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Scale (noun)
Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
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Scale (noun)
A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
“Sally wasn’t the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.”
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Scale (noun)
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
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Scale (noun)
A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
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Scale (noun)
A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
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Scale (noun)
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
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Scale (noun)
The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
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Scale (noun)
Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
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Scale (noun)
Limescale.
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Scale (noun)
A scale insect.
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Scale (noun)
The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
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Scale (noun)
A device to measure mass or weight.
“After the long, lazy winter I was afraid to get on the scale.”
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Scale (noun)
Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
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Scale (verb)
To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
“We should scale that up by a factor of 10.”
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Scale (verb)
To climb to the top of.
“Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.”
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Scale (verb)
To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
“That architecture won’t scale to real-world environments.”
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Scale (verb)
To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
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Scale (verb)
To remove the scales of.
“Please scale that fish for dinner.”
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Scale (verb)
To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
“The dry weather is making my skin scale.”
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Scale (verb)
To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
“to scale the inside of a boiler”
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Scale (verb)
To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
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Scale (verb)
To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
“Some sandstone scales by exposure.”
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Scale (verb)
To scatter; to spread.
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Scale (verb)
To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.