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