Scoop
[skuːp] or [skup]
Definition
(noun.) a large ladle; 'he used a scoop to serve the ice cream'.
(noun.) the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe.
(noun.) the quantity a scoop will hold.
(noun.) a hollow concave shape made by removing something.
(verb.) take out or up with or as if with a scoop; 'scoop the sugar out of the container'.
Checked by Jacques--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
(n.) A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
(n.) A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
(n.) The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
(n.) To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
(n.) To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
(n.) To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
Typist: Wanda
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Excavate, hollow, scoop out.[2]. Lade out.
Checked by Leon
Definition
v.t. to lift up as water with something hollow: to empty with a ladle: to make hollow: to dig out: to dredge for grain: to get before a rival newspaper in publishing some important piece of news.—n. anything hollow for scooping: a large hollow shovel or ladle: a banker's shovel: a coal-scuttle: a haul of money made in speculation: a place hollowed out: a sweeping stroke: (Scot.) the peak of a cap: the act of beating another newspaper in publishing some news.—ns. Scoop′er an engraver's tool; Scoop′ing the action of the right whale in feeding; Scoop′-net a hand-net; Scoop′-wheel a wheel having buckets attached to its circumference used for raising water.
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Examples
- Mr Meagles was at hand the whole time, always ready to illuminate any dim place with the bright little safety-lamp belonging to the scales and scoop. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The steel buckets scoop up the material at the bottom of the ladder, which they then ascend, and are discharged by becoming inverted at the upper end of the ladder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As the receding wave swept back with a hoarse roar, it seemed to scoop out deep caves in the beach, as if its purpose were to undermine the earth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Some of these are of the clam-shell type, some employ the scoop and lever, others an endless series of buckets. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Leave it alone, Pablo said and reached with a cup to scoop some wine from the bowl. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Jo makes a scoop with one hand, which is supposed to be a bow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There followed others for a machine that should scoop out earth to make canals or aqueducts, for a Market or Passage Boat to use on canals, and for a Dispatch Boat that should travel quickly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Just inside the open end of the oven the floor was scooped out so as to make a hole that would hold a bucket or two of water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Whether he prodded'; Mr Wegg's pantomime is skilful and expressive here; 'or whether he scooped? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We placed his remains under a cypress, the upright mountain being scooped out to receive them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Should you say scooped, my dear Mr Venus; or should you as a man--say prodded? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Joe scooped his eyes with his disengaged wrist, as if he were bent on gouging himself, but said not another word. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In the frigate-bird, the deeply scooped membrane between the toes shows that structure has begun to change. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It does this by scooping out shovelfuls of dirt, first with one of its hind feet and then with the other, and heaping it up like the wall of a fortress around the pit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Natalie