Meaning of Scoop | Babel Free

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

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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