(n.) That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object.
(n.) Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view, intent, or action.
(n.) Extended area.
(n.) Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.
(v. t.) To look at for the purpose of evaluation; usually with out; as, to scope out the area as a camping site.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(2) The scope and limitations of the procedure and its complications should be carefully explained to the parents, as should the risk of the detectable genetic disorder compared with the risk of the diagnostic procedure.
(3) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(4) In the scope of our research about the antimicrobial activity of aldehyde-amin-condensates a number of partly new unsymmetrically substituted animals was synthesized by reaction of formaldehyde with different secondary amines.
(5) Absent English-language material tends to be ephemeral or otherwise out of scope for the resource libraries.
(6) The use of different theoretical models is discussed, taking into consideration their specific scope and drawbacks.
(7) Our discussion has dealt with the nature of our field as a science and also as a discipline, the nature of the training for it, the nature of its research, and the nature and scope of its professional practice.
(8) But even away from this disaster, facts about the industry's cost and scope to meet Europe's energy needs should be enough to give nuclear supporters pause.
(9) The particular problems of reference methods for the determination of the catalytic activity concentration of enzymes are outside the scope of this review.
(10) Obama permitted them to operate with minimal restriction, proliferating the physical scope of the global war on terrorism to Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Mali and Niger and the digital scope around the world.
(11) These results extend the scope of immunologic circadian rhythms to the reticuloendothelial system as a feature of a bioperiodic defense mechanism, most active during the habitual rest light span of nocturnally active mice.
(12) While the results reflect antiandrogenic and antispermatogenic action of V. rosea, the selective retention of the spermatogonia provides scope for the much desired revival of spermatogenesis on cessation of the treatment.
(13) Also, longer term interest rates in the eurozone are already very low, which reduces the scope for QE to influence financial markets by pushing down bond yields.
(14) It would also be likely to lend scope to ill-conceived prosecutions jeopardising ordinary free speech rights, such as the notorious Twitter Joke Trial .
(15) Successful applicants will carry out further scoping work to decide where exactly to build the farms before submitting planning applications.
(16) Until we can effectively prevent vertical transmission of HIV, the scope of the AIDS epidemic in children will reflect that of HIV infection in women of childbearing age.
(17) As I outlined during our meeting, I believe we can strengthen both of our companies by bringing them together, enhancing their worldwide scale and scope, and capitalizing on significant opportunities, building on the position of Kraft Foods Inc. ("Kraft Foods") as a global powerhouse in snacks, confectionery and quick meals for the benefit of all of our respective stakeholders.
(18) The nurse executive's role can be viewed from many perspectives: its scope, its value, its structure, its content.
(19) This program engages more medical professions and represents an integral part of multilateral medical measures with the purpose of realizing health policy and its main scope, i.e.
(20) Bates also rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of a major collection program for the third time in three years.
Sphere
Definition:
(n.) Rank; order of society; social positions.
(n.) A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.
(n.) Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.
(n.) The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
(n.) In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions.
(n.) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
(n.) Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.
(n.) An orbit, as of a star; a socket.
(v. t.) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.
(v. t.) To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
(3) The relation between genetic counseling and the procreation sphere among the studied families is presented.
(4) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
(5) I care far more that women are absolutely essential to political life, influential at every level, and are leading dynamic conversations in the public sphere around social and cultural change.
(6) The algorithm is an improvement over the sphere model in that it considers two distinct surfaces: an ellipsoid, to model the region of the skull on which the sensors are placed, and a sphere as the medium in which the current dipole model is considered.
(7) The yolk spheres, which were free of precipitates, gave the characteristic signal of the nitrogen K-edge.
(8) In family therapy, the analysis of secret implies not only to define the network of the concerned persons, but also the definition of the bonds between the secret and loyalties, the distribution of power, the alliances and the definitions of the private sphere (proper to each family) and of the protective function of the secret.
(9) The sphering agent lysolecithin is less effective in reducing red cell deformability, when the external calcium-concentration is kept low.
(10) The magnitude of changes in both energy interaction and intensity were used to explore the degree of outer and inner sphere coordination, incidence of covalency and the extent of metal 4f-orbital involvement in chemical bonding.
(11) Ultrastructurally, hemolytic concentrations of tributyltin can be visualized in the electron microscope by osmium staining during fixation as electron-dense spheres penetrating the lipid bilayer of the erythrocyte plasma membrane.
(12) In the present paper the images produced by spheres of varying diameter (d = 4,6,8,10 mm) embedded in a homogeneous substance of varying densities (H' = 3,48,93,137 Hounsfield units) as produced by computer tomography were studied.
(13) The typical elements of risk (tobacco, age, socio-professional sphere) reappear in this study.
(14) Our results showed that a lower percentage of normal subjects and a lower percentage of constipated patients were able to pass a 1.8 cm incompressible sphere compared with a 50 ml deformable balloon, although constipated patients found it more difficult than normal subjects to expel both types of simulated stool.
(15) A transient 5-coordinate intermediate might play a role in the mechanism of action of carbonic anhydrase by facilitating ligand exchange reactions within the inner coordination sphere of the Zn(II) ion at the active center.
(16) The expression of WAP appears to be dependent upon the formation of the alveoli-like spheres: prevention of sphere formation by fixation or drying of the matrix abolishes the expression of WAP.
(17) The SAR patterns in birds, however, varied markedly from those obtained from spheres of comparable mass.
(18) The depth of FAD incorporation into the enzyme molecule as calculated according to the outer sphere electron transfer theory is 6.1 A.
(19) For the hard-sphere model used in these calculations, it was found that current helix-coil transition theory does not predict the correct perturbed dimensions.
(20) These questions are the points of collision of two immensely important spheres of interest in our everyday life.