Scoop

Definitions

1. Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
2. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
3. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
4. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
5. An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
6. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
7. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
8. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
9. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
10. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
11. The peak of a cap.
    Scotland
12. A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
13. The raised end of a surfboard.
14. A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
15. A haul of money made through speculation.
    dated, slang
16. A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.

Equivalents

28 more languages

العربيةالمجرفةمغرفة

Беларускаякоўш

Българскиизгребвамизгребванечерпак

Bosanskibolčupalopartopлопар+ 2 more

Češtinalopatkalopatkovýnaběračkasólokapr+ 1 more

Ελληνικάκουτάλα

Suomiammenäyskäröintiheilautusilma-aukkojymyjuttujymyuutinenkaapiakauhakauhallinenkauhoakauhominenkippokousikkakulhokuopiakuuppamitallinenmittaonkalopyyhkäisyskuuppi+ 18 more

Galegollerga

हिन्दीकलछी

Hrvatskibolčupalopartopлопар+ 2 more

Magyargombócmermerítmerőkanálvaj+ 2 more

Bahasa Indonesiaciduk

Italianoanteprimaanticipazionecolpo giornalisticocucchiaiatacucchiaionemestolatamestolonotizia in esclusivapalettataPrimiziascoop+ 8 more

日本語シャベルスクープスコップ匙杓子汲特ダネ+ 4 more

Қазақ тілішөміш

한국어술스쿠프

Kurdîaokellemêrtop+ 1 more

Latinatrulla

Te Reo Māoriaokapukoko

Nederlandsbolnieuwtjenoviteitprimeur+ 1 more

Polskichochlaczerpakgałkakulkałyżkanabieraczzabierak+ 4 more

Portuguêsconchaconchadafuro jornalístico

Românăcupămăsură

Русскийвоздухозаборникгоря́чая но́востьзаче́рпываниеКовшсгребатьсобиратьсовок+ 4 more

Српскиbolčupalopartopлопар+ 2 more

Svenskaskopa

Türkçekepçekürekküremektop+ 1 more

Українськаківшсовок

Examples

“She kept a scoop in the dog food.”

“an ice-cream scoop”

“Use⟳ one scoop of coffee for each pot.”

“I'll have⟳ one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.”

“with a quick scoop, she fished the frog out of the pond.”

“He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate⟳.”

“"We may get⟳ a scoop, if we are lucky. You'll be there in any case, so you'll just give⟳ us a pretty full report⟳."”

“The problem is that the public, disobediently giggling over their social media accounts, reckon they’ve already got the scoop without needing to see⟳ the film.”

“Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.”

“This brings the scoop into play⟳ as additional wetted surface and slows the board⟳ due to its fore-and-aft curvature”

“[T]he scoop or upward curvature in the front or nose section of a board⟳ is designed to keep⟳ the board⟳ from diving under the surface of the water when the surfer is catching a wave⟳.”

“Jazz symbols include⟳ many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.”

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