Vision vs Scope - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between vision and scope

is that vision is the sense or ability of sight while scope is the breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.

As verbs the difference between vision and scope

is that vision is to imagine something as if it were to be true while scope is to perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out.

vision

English

(wikipedia vision)

Noun

(label) The sense or ability of sight.

Something seen; an object perceived visually.

* 1610 , , I. ii. 270:

For to a vision so apparent rumour / Cannot be mute

*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=7, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!}}

(label) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.

(label) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.

(John Locke)

(label) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.

(label) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.

(label) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.

Synonyms

* (ability) sight, eyesight, view, perception * (something imaginary) apparition, hallucination, mirage * (ideal or goal) dream, desire, aspiration, fantasy

Derived terms

* binocular vision * double vision * personal vision * prevision * visible * visibility * vision statement * visionary * visioner * visual

Verb

(en verb)

To imagine something as if it were to be true.

To provide with a vision.

Synonyms

* (imagine) envision

Derived terms

* envision * prevision

Anagrams

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scope

English

Noun

(en noun)

The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.

A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target

(computing) The region of program source in which an identifier is meaningful.

(logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.

(linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.

the scope of an adverb

(slang) Shortened form of periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.

Derived terms

* scopeless

Verb

(scop)

To perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out .

(slang) To perform arthroscopic surgery.

The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament.

(slang) To examine under a microscope.

The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.

Anagrams

* copes * copse ----