[{"word":"scoping","phonetic":"/ˈskoʊpiːŋ/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ˈskoʊpiːŋ/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament."},{"definition":"To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"If we locally scope the user's login name, it won't be accessible from outside this function."},{"definition":"To examine under a microscope.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it."},{"definition":"To observe a bird using a spotting scope.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The act of adding a scope","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scope","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scoping"]}]