Spoon vs. Scoop

Spoonnoun

An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.

Spoonnoun

An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.

Spoonnoun

A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.

Spoonnoun

A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.

Spoonnoun

(slang) An oar.

Spoonnoun

(fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.

Spoonnoun

A spoon excavator.

Spoonnoun

A simpleton, a spooney.

Spoonnoun

A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.

Spoonverb

To serve using a spoon.

Spoonverb

To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.

Spoonverb

To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.

Spoonverb

To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.

Spoonverb

(intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.

Spoonverb

(transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.

Spoonverb

alternative form of spoom

Spoonverb

See Spoom.

Spoonverb

To take up in, or as in, a spoon.

Spoonverb

To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.

Spoonverb

In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.

Spoonverb

To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.

Spoonverb

To fish with a spoon bait.

Spoonverb

In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.

Spoonnoun

An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.

Spoonnoun

Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.

Spoonnoun

Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.

Spoonnoun

A wooden club with a lofted face.

Spoonnoun

a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food

Spoonnoun

as much as a spoon will hold;

Spoonnoun

formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face

Spoonverb

scoop up or take up with a spoon;

Spoonverb

snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others

Spoon

A spoon is a utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl (also known as a head), oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery (sometimes called flatware in the United States), especially as part of a place setting, it is used primarily for transferring food to the mouth.

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;