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scoop

  [skoop]
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–noun
1. a ladle or ladlelike utensil, esp. a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
2. a utensil composed of a palm-sized hollow hemisphere attached to a horizontal handle, for dishing out ice cream or other soft foods.
3. a hemispherical portion of food as dished out by such a utensil: two scoops of chocolate ice cream.
4. the bucket of a dredge, steam shovel, etc.
5. Surgery. a spoonlike apparatus for removing substances or foreign objects from the body.
6. a hollow or hollowed-out place.
7. the act of ladling, dipping, dredging, etc.
8. the quantity held in a ladle, dipper, shovel, bucket, etc.
9. a news item, report, or story first revealed in one paper, magazine, newscast, etc.; beat.
10. Informal. news, information, or details, esp. as obtained from experience or an immediate source: What's the scoop on working this machine?
11. a gathering to oneself or lifting with the arms or hands.
12. Informal. a big haul, as of money.
13. Television, Movies. a single large floodlight shaped like a flour scoop.
–verb (used with object)
14. to take up or out with or as if with a scoop.
15. to empty with a scoop.
16. to form a hollow or hollows in.
17. to form with or as if with a scoop.
18. to get the better of (other publications, newscasters, etc.) by obtaining and publishing or broadcasting a news item, report, or story first: They scooped all the other dailies with the story of the election fraud.
19. to gather up or to oneself or to put hastily by a sweeping motion of one's arms or hands: He scooped the money into his pocket.
–verb (used without object)
20. to remove or gather something with or as if with a scoop: to scoop with a ridiculously small shovel.
Origin:
1300–50; (n.) ME scope < MD schōpe; (v.) ME scopen, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
scooper, noun
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scoop   (skōōp)   


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n.  
    1. A shovellike utensil, usually having a deep curved dish and a short handle: a flour scoop.
    2. The amount that such a utensil can hold.
    3. A thick-handled cuplike utensil for dispensing balls of ice cream or other semisoft food, often having a sweeping band in the cup that is levered by the thumb to free the contents.
    4. A portion of food gathered with this utensil.
    1. A thick-handled cuplike utensil for dispensing balls of ice cream or other semisoft food, often having a sweeping band in the cup that is levered by the thumb to free the contents.
    2. A portion of food gathered with this utensil.
  3. A ladle; a dipper.
  4. An implement for bailing water from a boat.
  5. A narrow, spoon-shaped instrument for surgical extraction in cavities or cysts.
  6. The bucket or shovel, as of a dredge or backhoe.
  7. A hollow area; a cavity.
  8. An opening, as on the body of a motor vehicle, by which a fluid is directed inward: "The [sports car] has . . . enough scoops and spoilers to get you a citation just standing still" (Mark Weinstein).
  9. A scooping movement or action.
  10. Informal An exclusive news story acquired by luck or initiative before a competitor.
  11. Informal Current information or details: What's the scoop on the new neighbors?
tr.v.   scooped, scoop·ing, scoops
  1. To take up or dip into with or as if with a scoop.
  2. To hollow out by digging.
  3. To gather or collect swiftly and unceremoniously; grab: scoop up a handful of jelly beans.
  4. Informal To top or outmaneuver (a competitor) in acquiring and publishing an important news story.

[Middle English scope, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schōpe, bucket for bailing water.]
scoop'er n., scoop'ful' n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Scoop

Scoop\, n. A beat. [Newspaper Slang]

Scoop

Scoop\, v. t. To get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival). [Newspaper Slang]

Scoop

Scoop\, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch["u]ppe, 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. (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. --J. R. 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.

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.

Scoop

Scoop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scooping.] [OE. scopen. See Scoop, n.]

1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.

He scooped the water from the crystal flood. --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. --Arbuthnot.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Scoop
Spanish: pala, cucharón,
German: die Schaufel,
Japanese: しゃくし
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scoop 
c.1330, "utensil for bailing out" (n.), also (v.) "to bail out;" from M.Du. schope "bucket for bailing water," from W.Gmc. *skopo (cf. M.L.G. schope "ladle"), from P.Gmc. *skop-, from PIE *(s)kep- "to cut, to scrape, to hack." Also from Low Ger. scheppen (v.) "to draw water," from P.Gmc. *skuppon, from PIE root *skub- (cf. O.E. sceofl "shovel," O.S. skufla; see shove). The journalistic sense of "news published before a rival" is first recorded 1874, Amer.Eng., from earlier commercial slang sense of "appropriate so as to exclude competitors" (c.1850).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: scoop
Pronunciation: 'sküp
Function: noun
: a spoon-shaped surgical instrument used in extracting various materials (as debris, pus, andforeign bodies)
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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SCOOP
Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog.
["SCOOP, Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog", J. Vaucher et al, in ECOOP '88, S. Gjessing et al eds, LNCS 322, Springer 1988, pp.191-211].

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