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scoop

English

Etymology

From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (bucket for bailing water) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (spade)), from Proto-Germanic *skupp?, *skuppij?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (to cut, to scrape, to hack)..

Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (shovel), Middle Low German sch?pe (scoop, shovel), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (shovel), German Schüppe, Schippe (shovel, spade). Related to English shovel.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sko?op, IPA(key): /sku?p/
  • Rhymes: -u?p

Noun

scoop (plural scoops)

  1. Any cup- 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. (automotive) 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.
    • 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
      Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.
  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. (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
  12. (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.

Synonyms

  • (tool): scooper
  • (amount held by a scoop): scoopful

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

scoop (third-person singular simple present scoops, present participle scooping, simple past and past participle scooped)

  1. (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
  2. (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
  3. (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
  4. (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
  5. (slang) To pick (someone) up

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • Co-ops, Coops, POCOs, co-ops, coops

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English scoop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skup/

Noun

scoop m (plural scoops)

  1. scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English scoop. Compare scoprire (uncover), scoperta (discovery).

Noun

scoop m (invariable)

  1. scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)

Anagrams

  • scopo, scopò

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bucketful

English

Etymology

From bucket +? -ful. Compare Old English b?cful, b?cfull (bucketful).

Noun

bucketful (plural bucketfuls or bucketsful)

  1. The quantity contained in a bucket.
    Synonym: pailful
  2. (by extension) a large quantity
    It was raining in bucketfuls.

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