scoop
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (6)scoops
- the quantity a scoop will holdSynonyms: scoopfulType of containerful
- a hollow concave shape made by removing somethingSynonyms: pocketType of concave shape, concavity
- a news report that is reported first by one news organization“he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials”Synonyms: exclusiveType of report, news report
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrateSynonyms: soapmaxliquid ecstasygrievous bodily harmgoopGeorgia home boyeasy layType of gamma hydroxybutyrate, GHB
- the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoeSynonyms: scoop shovelType of shovelPart of backhoe, dredge
- a large ladle“he used a scoop to serve the ice cream”Type of ladle
Verb (2)scoops, scooped, scooping
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop“scoop the sugar out of the container”Synonyms: scoop outlift outscoop uptake upMore general remove, takeMore specific dip
- get the better of“the goal was to best the competition”Synonyms: outdooutflanktrumpbestMore general beat, beat outMore specific outmaneuver, outmanoeuvre
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. schüppe, and also to E. shove. See Shovel.
1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
3. Surgery A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.— Joseph Rodman Drake
5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
7. a quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; — used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop; as, an ice cream cone with two scoops.
8. an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat. Newspaper or laboratory cant
9. news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?. informal
Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. — Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.
Origin: OE. scopen. See Scoop, noun
1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
He scooped the water from the crystal flood.— John Dryden
2. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint.— John Arbuthnot
to report a story first, before (a rival); to get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival); — used commonly in the passive; as, we were scooped. Also used in certain situations in scientific research, when one scientist or team of scientists reports their results before another who is working on the same problem.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC, 1913 supplement, GCIDE editors
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