scoop
IPA: skˈup
noun
- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- (slang, dated) A haul of money made through speculation.
- (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
verb
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
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Examples of "scoop" in Sentences
- He ate a scoop of icecream.
- How many scoops did you have
- You can put sugar on the scoop.
- He scooped sand from the basket.
- I got three scoops of ice cream.
- Everyone had the same number of scoops for dinner.
- The flesh of the melon is scooped out with the soup.
- What is the big scoop on the bottom of the airplane
- The brick trowel is used to scoop and spread mortar.
- The large scoop on the bottom is the intake for the radiator.
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