Scoop
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
scoop
n 1: the quantity a scoop will hold [syn: {scoop}, {scoopful}]
2: a hollow concave shape made by removing something [syn:
{scoop}, {pocket}]
3: a news report that is reported first by one news
organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city
officials" [syn: {exclusive}, {scoop}]
4: street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate [syn: {soap}, {scoop},
{max}, {liquid ecstasy}, {grievous bodily harm}, {goop},
{Georgia home boy}, {easy lay}]
5: the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe [syn: {scoop},
{scoop shovel}]
6: a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
v 1: take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar
out of the container" [syn: {scoop}, {scoop out}, {lift
out}, {scoop up}, {take up}]
2: get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
[syn: {outdo}, {outflank}, {trump}, {best}, {scoop}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scoop \Scoop\, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa,
akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch["u]ppe, and also to E.
shove. See {Shovel}.]
1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for
dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
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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.
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3. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting
certain substances or foreign bodies.
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4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
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Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. --J. R.
Drake.
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5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
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6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a
motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
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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.
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8. an act of reporting (news, research results) before a
rival; also called a {beat}. [Newspaper or laboratory
cant]
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9. news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's
divorce?. [informal]
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{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.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scoop \Scoop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scooped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Scooping}.] [OE. scopen. See {Scoop}, n.]
1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
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He scooped the water from the crystal flood.
--Dryden.
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2. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
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3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig
out; to form by digging or excavation.
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Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to
hold above a pint. --Arbuthnot.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scoop \Scoop\, v. t.
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.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Beat \Beat\, n.
1. One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the
beat of him. [Colloq.]
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2. The act of one that beats a person or thing; as:
(a) (Newspaper Cant) The act of obtaining and publishing a
piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors;
also, the news itself; -- also called a {scoop} or
{exclusive}.
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It's a beat on the whole country. --Scribner's
Mag.
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(b) (Hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a
tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those
so engaged, collectively. "Driven out in the course of
a beat." --Encyc. of Sport.
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Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the
last moment, when the beat is close to them.
--Encyc. of
Sport.
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(c) (Fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
194 Moby Thesaurus words for "scoop":
account, acquaintance, alveolation, alveolus, announcement, antrum,
armpit, article, bail, basin, beat, bit, blue book, bore, bowl,
brass tacks, briefing, bucket, budget of news, bulletin, burrow,
butt, cavity, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, collop, communication,
communique, concave, concavity, copy, crater, crumb, crypt, cup,
cut, cutting, data, datum, decant, delve, depression, dig, dig out,
dike, dip, dipper, directory, dish, dish out, dish up, dispatch,
dollop, dope, dredge, drill, drive, end, enlightenment,
essential facts, essentials, evidence, excavate, exclusive, facts,
factual information, familiarization, fold, follicle, fork,
fragment, funnel chest, furrow, gather, gather up, gen,
general information, gob, gobbet, gouge, gouge out, groove, grub,
guidebook, handout, hard information, hole, hollow, hollow out,
hollow shell, hunk, incidental information, info, information,
instruction, intelligence, knowledge, lacuna, lade, ladle, latest,
lift, light, low-down, lower, lump, mention, message, mine,
modicum, moiety, morsel, news item, notice, notification, paring,
particle, pick up, piece, pit, pocket, poop, pour, presentation,
promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, punch bowl,
quarry, rasher, release, report, revelation, sap, scoop out,
scrabble, scrap, scrape, scratch, shard, shaving, shell, shiver,
shovel, shred, sidelight, sink, sinus, slice, sliver, smithereen,
snack, snatch, snip, snippet, socket, spade, splinter, spoon,
spoon out, spot news, statement, stitch, story, stump, sweep up,
take in, take up, tatter, the data, the details, the dope,
the facts, the goods, the information, the know, the particulars,
the picture, the scoop, the score, the specifics, the whole story,
transmission, trench, trough, truth, tunnel, vug, white book,
white paper, word
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