Scoop vs. Scope

Scoopnoun

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

Scoopnoun

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

Scoopnoun

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

Scoopnoun

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

Scoopnoun

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

Scoopnoun

The digging attachment on a front-end loader.

Scoopnoun

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

Scoopnoun

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

Scoopnoun

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

Scoopnoun

A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

Scoopverb

(transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.

Scoopverb

(transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).

Scoopverb

To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.

Scoopverb

To consume an alcoholic beverage.

Scoopverb

(slang) To pick (someone) up

Scoopnoun

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

Scoopnoun

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.

Scoopnoun

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

Scoopnoun

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

Scoopnoun

A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

Scoopnoun

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

Scoopnoun

a quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; - used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop; as, an ice cream cone with two scoops.

Scoopnoun

an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat.

Scoopnoun

news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?.

Scoopverb

To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.

Scoopverb

To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.

Scoopverb

To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.

Scoopverb

to report a story first, before (a rival); to get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival); - used commonly in the passive; as, we were scooped. Also used in certain situations in scientific research, when one scientist or team of scientists reports their results before another who is working on the same problem.

Scoopnoun

the quantity a scoop will hold

Scoopnoun

a hollow concave shape made by removing something

Scoopnoun

a news report that is reported first by one news organization;

Scoopnoun

street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

Scoopnoun

the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe

Scoopnoun

a large ladle;

Scoopverb

take out or up with or as if with a scoop;

Scoopverb

get the better of;

Scopenoun

The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.

Scopenoun

(weapons) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.

Scopenoun

(computing) The region of program source in which an identifier is meaningful.

Scopenoun

(logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.

Scopenoun

(linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.

Scopenoun

(slang) A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.

Scopenoun

Short for any medical procedure that ends in the suffix endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.}}

Scopeverb

To perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out.

Scopeverb

To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.

Scopeverb

(slang) To examine under a microscope.

Scopenoun

That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object.

Scopenoun

Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view, intent, or action.

Scopenoun

Extended area.

Scopenoun

Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.

Scopenoun

To look at for the purpose of evaluation; usually with out; as, to scope out the area as a camping site.

Scopenoun

an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:

Scopenoun

the state of the environment in which a situation exists;

Scopenoun

a magnifier of images of distant objects

Scopenoun

electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities