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Scoop
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- 1 Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
"She kept a scoop in the dog food."
- 2 a large ladle wordnet
- 3 The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
"Use one scoop of coffee for each pot."
- 4 the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe wordnet
- 5 The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
"with a quick scoop, she fished the frog out of the pond."
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- 6 street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate wordnet
- 7 A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
"He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate."
- 8 a news report that is reported first by one news organization wordnet
- 9 An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- 10 the quantity a scoop will hold wordnet
- 11 The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- 12 a hollow concave shape made by removing something wordnet
- 13 A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
"Some had lain in the scoop of the rock."
- 14 A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- 15 A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- 16 A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- 17 The peak of a cap. Scotland
- 18 A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- 19 The raised end of a surfboard.
"This brings the scoop into play as additional wetted surface and slows the board due to its fore-and-aft curvature"
- 20 A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- 21 A haul of money made through speculation. dated, slang
- 22 A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
"Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops."
- 1 To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop. transitive
"He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face."
- 2 get the better of wordnet
- 3 To make hollow; to dig out. transitive
"I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers."
- 4 take out or up with or as if with a scoop wordnet
- 5 To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else). transitive
"The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal."
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- 6 To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music. often
- 7 To pick (someone) up slang
"You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?"
- 8 To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split. slang
Etymology
From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.
From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.
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