scope : Idioms & Phrases

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-scope

-scope
Etymology
Gr. skopo`s a watcher, spy. See Scope.
Definitions
  1. A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.
Webster 1913

john scopes

  • noun Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)
    Scopes; John Scopes.
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john thomas scopes

  • noun Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970)
    Scopes; John Scopes.
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scopes trial

  • noun a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed
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t-scope

  • noun scientific instrument used by psychologists; presents visual stimuli for brief exposures
    tachistoscope.
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