room vs scope

room

noun
  • Space for something, or to carry out an activity. 

  • The people in a room. 

  • A space between the timbers of a ship's frame. 

  • Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant. 

  • A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room. 

  • Sufficient space for or to do something. 

  • A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings. 

  • An area for working in a coal mine. 

  • A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. 

  • A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. 

  • An IRC or chat room. 

  • (One's) bedroom. 

verb
  • To assign to a room; to allocate a room to. 

  • To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant. 

adv
  • Off from the wind. 

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 room and scope occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )