English Dictionary: Scoop | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Scoop \Scoop\, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch[81]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. 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. (Surg.) 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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. He scooped the water from the crystal flood. --Dryden. 2. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry. 3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation. Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. --Arbuthnot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Scoop \Scoop\, n. A beat. [Newspaper Slang] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Scoop \Scoop\, v. t. To get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival). [Newspaper Slang] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
SCOOP Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog. ["SCOOP, Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog", J. Vaucher et al, in ECOOP '88, S. Gjessing et al eds, LNCS 322, Springer 1988, pp.191-211]. |