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Definition of Scoop

1. Verb. Take out or up with or as if with a scoop. "Scoop the sugar out of the container"

2. Noun. The quantity a scoop will hold.

3. Verb. Get the better of. "The fighter managed to scoop his opponent"; "The goal was to best the competition"

4. Noun. A hollow concave shape made by removing something.

5. Noun. A news report that is reported first by one news organization. "He got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"

6. Noun. Street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate.

7. Noun. The shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe.

8. Noun. A large ladle. "He used a scoop to serve the ice cream"

Definition of Scoop

1. n. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

2. v. t. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.

3. n. A beat.

4. v. t. To get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival).

Definition of Scoop

1. Noun. Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually including a handle used to lift and move loose or soft solid material. ¹

2. Noun. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop. ¹

3. Noun. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else. ¹

4. Noun. (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine. ¹

5. Noun. The digging attachment on a front-end loader. ¹

6. Noun. A covered opening in an automobile's hood which allows cold air to enter the area beneath the hood. ¹

7. Noun. A special "Spinal Board" called a "Scoop" or "Spinal scoop" used by EMS staff that divides laterally to literally scoop up patients. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To learn something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else). ¹

10. Verb. (music often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music. ¹

11. Verb. To consume an alcoholic beverage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scoop

1. to take up with a scoop (a spoonlike utensil) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Scoop

1. 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. 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. Origin: OE. Scope, of Scand. Origin; cf. Sw. Skopa, akin to D. Schop a shovel, G. Schuppe, and also to E. Shove. See Shovel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoop

sconed scones sconing scontion scontions scoober scoobers scooch scooched scooches

scooching scoog scooged scooging scoogs scoop (current term) scoop out scoop shot scoop shovel scoop up

scoop wheel scoop wheels scoopable scooped scooped up scooper scoopers scoopful scoopfuls scooping

Literary usage of Scoop

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye by John Soelberg Wells, Charles Stedman Bull (1880)
"The eye having been fixed with the forceps, the scoop is to be introduced into the section ... When the edge of the scoop has passed the margin of the lens, ..."

2. The Science and art of surgery by John Eric Erichsen (1854)
"In some cases, however, a bent probe or an ear-scoop will remove the ... Here the us« of this instrument is of little service; the bent ear-scoop may ..."

3. Locomotive Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms which Designate ...by George Little Fowler by George Little Fowler (1906)
"Water scoop. Figs. 4227-4293. A device for putting water in a locomotive tender, ... The lower end, underneath the tender frame, is fitted with a scoop or ..."

4. Report of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American (1902)
"The shield in front of the scoop in the raised position is provided to keep out ballast, etc. In cold climates the scoops must be kept free from ice, ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Gas Institute by American Gas Institute (1908)
"that their lower edges will swing forward and upward so as to allow them to pass freely over any coal in the scoop or retort when being drawn backward, ..."

6. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases and Injuries of the Urinary Bladder by Samuel David Gross (1851)
"The scoop is about ten inches in length, and is shaped, ... Any pieces, or fragments, that may have escaped the forceps or scoop are thus removed; ..."

7. Hydraulics and Its Applications by Arnold Hartley Gibson (1908)
"Pumping Machinery—The scoop Wheel—The Archimedean Screw—The Reciprocating ... THE scoop WHEEL. This has in the past been largely applied to the drainage of ..."

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