[skoop] 
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 20. | to remove or gather something with or as if with a scoop: to scoop with a ridiculously small shovel. |
scoop (skōōp)  (click for larger image in new window) n.
[Middle English scope, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schōpe, bucket for bailing water.] scoop'er n., scoop'ful' n. |
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].