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Scoop   /skup/   Listen
noun
Scoop  n.  
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.
(Surg.) 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."
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.


verb
Scoop  v. t.  (past & past part. scooped; pres. part. scooping)  
1.
To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out. "He scooped the water from the crystal flood."
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."


Scoop  v. t.  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.





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"Scoop" Quotes from Famous Books



... rat, There is no room to bring a cat. A little rivulet seems to steal Down through a thing you call a vale, Like tears adown a wrinkled cheek, Like rain along a blade of leek: And this you call your sweet meander, Which might be suck'd up by a gander, Could he but force his nether bill To scoop the channel of the rill. For sure you'd make a mighty clutter, Were it as big as city gutter. Next come I to your kitchen garden, Where one poor mouse would fare but hard in; And round this garden is a walk No longer than a tailor's chalk; ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift
... immediate vicinity. He saw that in each font was a quantity of food, and that each Wieroo was armed with a wooden skewer, sharpened at one end; with which they carried solid portions of food to their mouths. At the other end of the skewer was fastened a small clam-shell. This was used to scoop up the smaller and softer portions of the repast into which all four of the occupants of each table dipped impartially. The Wieroo leaned far over their food, scooping it up rapidly and with much noise, and ...
— Out of Time's Abyss • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... lady, I will build for thee A grotto altar of my misery. Deep will I scoop, where darkest lies my heart, Far from the ...
— Silverpoints • John Gray
... that the object of his affections is Miss Bassett, why, then, Jeeves, hope begins to dawn a bit. He's just the sort of chap a girl like Madeline Bassett might scoop in with relish." ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
... to scoop out his nest in the snow, and settle. But it was obvious that he labored with some unusual interest; some unseen cause ...
— Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson


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