Scoop
Scoop , noun
[Old English scope, of Scand. origin; compare Swedish skopa, akin to Dutch schop a shovel, German schuppe, and also to English 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.
(Surgery) 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]
Collocations (2)
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 , transitive verb
[Old English scopen. See Scoop, n.]
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 , transitive verb
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.