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scoop       [skoop] Pronunciation Key
–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)  Pronunciation Key 


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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.
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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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scoop

noun
1. the quantity a scoop will hold 
2. a hollow concave shape made by removing something 
3. a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials" [syn: exclusive] 
4. street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate [syn: soap] 
5. the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe 
6. a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream" 

verb
1. take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container" 
2. get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" [syn: outdo] 

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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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Scoop

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

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Scoop

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

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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.

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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.

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