VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / scoop

Thesaurus: scoop

A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. n. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
  2. n. 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. n. A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
  4. n. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
  5. n. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
  6. n. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
  7. n. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
  8. n. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
  9. n. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
  10. n. the quantity a scoop will hold
  11. n. a hollow concave shape made by removing something
  12. n. a news report that is reported first by one news organization