different between scoop vs dole

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??l/, /d??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /do?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophone: dhole

Etymology 1

From Middle English dol, from Old English d?l (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dail? (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic ?????? (d?liti, “divide”). More at deal.

Verb

dole (third-person singular simple present doles, present participle doling, simple past and past participle doled)

1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

Derived terms

• dole out

Translations

Noun

dole

1. Money or other goods given as charity.
   • c. 1690, John Dryden, Eleonora

     So sure the dole, so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.
2. Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
   • c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising

     At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul.
3. (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed.
   • 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, page 107,

     The men sit because they?re worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole, discussing the world’s problems and wondering what to do with the rest of the day.

   • 1997, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Economic Surveys: Australia, page 67,

     The FY 1997/98 Commonwealth budget allocated funding of A$ 21.6 million to the Work for the Dole initiative for unemployed young people.

4. A boundary; a landmark.

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5. (Britain, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.

Synonyms

• (payment by the state to the unemployed): pancrack (UK), pogey (Canada)

Derived terms

• (payment to support the unemployed): dole bludger

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English doell (“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo.

Noun

dole (uncountable)

1. (archaic) A Sorrow or grief; dolour.
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, William Caxton, 1868, Morte Darthur, page 212,

     Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole.

   • But ten slow mornings past, and on the eleventh / Her father laid the letter in her hand, / And closed the hand upon it, and she died. / So that day there was dole in Astolat.

2. (law, Scotland) Dolus.

Anagrams

• Delo, Deol, Ledo, OLED, leod, lode, olde

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dol?]

Adverb

dole

1. down (at a lower place or position)

Antonyms

• naho?e

Related terms

• dol?

See also

• vlevo
• vpravo

Noun

dole m

1. vocative/locative singular of d?l

Further reading

• dole in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• dole in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Verb

dole

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dolen

Anagrams

• doel

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: dolent, doles

Verb

dole

1. inflection of doler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Verb

dol?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dole?

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?l?/, [?d?l?]

Noun

dole

1. locative singular of do?

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.l?/

Noun

dole f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of dola

Noun

dole m inan

1. locative/vocative singular of dó?

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): d?lje

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dôle/
• Hyphenation: do?le

Adverb

d?le (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. down
2. below

Interjection

d?le (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. down

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English dol, from Old English d?l, from Proto-Germanic *dail?.

Noun

dole

1. A deal.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [do?l?]
• Hyphenation: do?le

Alternative forms

• dol

Noun

dole f

1. A lake.

See also

• gol