SCOOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scoop mean? 

• SCOOP (noun)
  The noun SCOOP has 6 senses:

1. the quantity a scoop will hold

2. a hollow concave shape made by removing something

3. a news report that is reported first by one news organization

4. street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

5. the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe

6. a large ladle

  Familiarity information: SCOOP used as a noun is common.

• SCOOP (verb)
  The verb SCOOP has 2 senses:

1. take out or up with or as if with a scoop

2. get the better of

  Familiarity information: SCOOP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCOOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity a scoop will hold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

scoop; scoopful

Hypernyms ("scoop" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Derivation:

scoop (take out or up with or as if with a scoop)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A hollow concave shape made by removing something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

pocket; scoop

Hypernyms ("scoop" is a kind of...):

concave shape; concavity; incurvation; incurvature (a shape that curves or bends inward)

Derivation:

scoop (take out or up with or as if with a scoop)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A news report that is reported first by one news organization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

exclusive; scoop

Context example:

he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials

Hypernyms ("scoop" is a kind of...):

account; news report; report; story; write up (a short account of the news)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

easy lay; Georgia home boy; goop; grievous bodily harm; liquid ecstasy; max; scoop; soap

Hypernyms ("scoop" is a kind of...):

gamma hydroxybutyrate; GHB (a club drug available in liquid or powder form is taken orally (frequently combined with alcohol); used to incapacitate individuals for the commission of sexual assault and rape)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

scoop; scoop shovel

Hypernyms ("scoop" is a kind of...):

shovel (a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle)

Holonyms ("scoop" is a part of...):

backhoe (an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth)

dredge (a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed)

Derivation:

scoop (take out or up with or as if with a scoop)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A large ladle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

he used a scoop to serve the ice cream

Hypernyms ("scoop" is a kind of...):

ladle (a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another)

Derivation:

scoop (take out or up with or as if with a scoop)

• SCOOP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scoop    ... he / she / it scoops   
Past simple: scooped   
Past participle: scooped   
-ing form: scooping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take out or up with or as if with a scoop

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lift out; scoop; scoop out; scoop up; take up

Context example:

scoop the sugar out of the container

Hypernyms (to "scoop" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "scoop"):

dip (scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

scoop (a large ladle)

scoop (the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe)

scoop (the quantity a scoop will hold)

scoop (a hollow concave shape made by removing something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get the better of

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

best; outdo; outflank; scoop; trump

Context example:

the goal was to best the competition

Hypernyms (to "scoop" is one way to...):

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "scoop"):

outmaneuver; outmanoeuvre; outsmart (defeat by more skillful maneuvering)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to scoop his opponent

 Context examples 

We may get a scoop, if we are lucky.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You will increasingly find yourself in the right place at the right time to scoop up enviable opportunities that take advantage of your unique talents.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Ah, dear me!” sighed Miss Murdstone, giving me the tea-caddy scoop instead of her fingers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A couple of bounds, a flash of teeth and a frightened squawk, and he had scooped in the adventurous fowl.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A gilt harp, blotched with many stains and with two of its strings missing, was tucked under one of his arms, while with the other he scooped greedily at his platter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They bristled with unknown perils, and he gazed at them, fascinated, till their dazzle became a background across which moved a succession of forecastle pictures, wherein he and his mates sat eating salt beef with sheath-knives and fingers, or scooping thick pea-soup out of pannikins by means of battered iron spoons.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Gradually, however, as his neighbours plied him with drink, his shoulders grew squarer, his back stiffened, his eyes brightened, and he looked about him, with an air of surprise at first, as if he had no clear recollection of how he came there, and afterwards with an expression of deepening interest, as he listened, with his ear scooped up in his hand, to the conversation around him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The team found evidence for nitrates in scooped samples of windblown sand and dust at the Rocknest site, and in samples drilled from mudstone at the John Klein and Cumberland drill sites in Yellowknife Bay.

(Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars, NASA)

His stout mittens temporarily protected his hands, and he scooped live coals into the air in all directions, until the campfire took on the semblance of a volcano.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)