English Dictionary

scoop

/skuːp/

noun

Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material. / The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.

I used a scoop to serve ice cream.

意味（1）

Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.

She kept a scoop in the dog food.

意味（2）

The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.

Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.

意味（3）

The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.

with a quick scoop, she fished the frog out of the pond.

意味（4）

A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.

We may get a scoop, if we are lucky. You'll be there in any case, so you'll just give us a pretty full report.

意味（5）

(automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.

意味（6）

The digging attachment on a front-end loader.

意味（7）

A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.

意味（8）

A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

意味（9）

A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.

意味（10）

A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

意味（11）

(Scotland) The peak of a cap.

意味（12）

(pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.

意味（13）

(surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.

This brings the scoop into play as additional wetted surface and slows the board due to its fore-and-aft curvature

意味（14）

(film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.