word-vault/dist/data/cards/sc/scope.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "scope",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the opportunity or ability to do or achieve something",
            "sensetop": "scope for somethingscope (for somebody) (to do something)within somebody's scope",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There's still plenty of scope for improvement.",
                    "contextForm": "scope for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her job offers very **little scope** for promotion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The extra money will give us the scope to improve our facilities.",
                    "contextForm": "scope (for somebody) (to do something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "First try to do something that is within your scope.",
                    "contextForm": "within somebody's scope"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is limited scope for creativity in my job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These courses give students more scope for developing their own ideas."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["full", "ample", "considerable"],
                "verb + scope": ["have", "allow (somebody)", "give somebody"],
                "preposition": ["scope for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the range of things that a subject, an organization, an activity, etc. deals with",
            "sensetop": "in scopebeyond the scope of somethingoutside the scope of something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The police are broadening the scope of their investigation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our powers are limited in scope.",
                    "contextForm": "in scope"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This subject lies beyond the scope of our investigation.",
                    "contextForm": "beyond the scope of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "These issues were outside the scope of the article.",
                    "contextForm": "outside the scope of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is a novel of epic scope and grand passions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These disputes fall within the scope of the local courts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These criteria were used to determine the scope of the curriculum."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The survey is too limited in (its) scope."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The sheer scope of the project was impressive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The scope of the exhibition is disappointingly narrow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The geographical scope of product markets has widened since the war."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["broad", "wide", "epic"],
                "verb + scope": ["broaden", "enlarge", "expand"],
                "scope + verb": ["broaden", "expand", "extend"],
                "preposition": [
                    "beyond the scope of",
                    "outside the scope of",
                    "in (something’s) scope"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "an instrument for looking through or watching something with",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "microscope"
                },
                {
                    "text": "telescope"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/skəʊp/",
                "audio": "sc/scope/scope__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/skəʊp/",
                "audio": "sc/scope/scope__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "noun senses 1 to 2 mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘target for shooting at’): from Italian scopo ‘aim’, from Greek skopos ‘target’, from skeptesthai ‘look out’. noun sense 3 early 17th cent. from modern Latin -scopium, from Greek skopein ‘look at’. The verb dates from the 1970s."
}