province vs scope

province

noun
  • An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept. 

  • The parts of a country outside its capital city. 

  • An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor. 

  • An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses. 

  • A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country. 

  • An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China. 

  • An area under the jurisdiction of a provincial within a monastic order. 

scope

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

  • The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part. 

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

  • The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed. 

  • The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies. 

  • Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc. 

  • Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom. 

  • A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope. 

verb
  • To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc. 

  • To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out. 

  • To define the scope of something. 

  • To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code. 

  • To examine under a microscope. 

  • To observe a bird using a spotting scope. 

How often have the words province and scope occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )