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Scopes Scopes

Spelling: [skohps]

IPA: /skoʊps/

Scopes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in Scopes (ceopss).

Definitions for Scopes

noun

1. John Thomas, 1901–70, U.S. high-school teacher whose teaching of the Darwinian theory of evolution became a cause célèbre (Scopes Trial or Monkey Trial) in 1925.
2. extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.:
3. space for movement or activity; opportunity for operation:
4. extent in space; a tract or area.
5. length:
6. aim or purpose.
7. Linguistics, Logic. the range of words or elements of an expression over which a modifier or operator has control:
8. (used as a short form of microscope, oscilloscope, periscope, radarscope, riflescope, telescopic sight, etc.)

Verb phrases

1. scope out, Slang. to look at or over; examine; check out: to master; figure out:

verb (used with object)

1. Slang. to look at, read, or investigate, as in order to evaluate or appreciate.

Origin of Scopes

1525-35; Italian scopo Greek skopós aim, mark to shoot at; akin to skopeîn to look at (see -scope)

Examples for Scopes

The statement does not claim to be scientific; I mean that there were no 'meters or 'Scopes of any kind used.

Did you ever sell any of these particular rifles with Scopes and mounts?

As everyone knows, Scopes lost the case in 1926 and the prohibition against teaching evolution remained in force.

In July 1925, the town hosted the Scopes Monkey Trial, a landmark case in the history of creationism.

So the results of the Scopes primary are in, and they are, in a way, not surprising.

Were these Scopes and mounts purchased from the same source as the rifle itself?

The Scopes Trial was a formative moment for modern creationism.

The Scopes law was explicitly aimed at what children could be taught.

But it was less the Scopes of the films which made Carmen animate than it was the virile woman who played her.

Our 'Scopes on the Cometara had not been able to locate the projectile.