scoop
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3.2
- noun
- /skuːp/
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- Curiosity is parked in an area called Rocknest, where it has taken several scoops of soil.
- scoop-shaped
- scoop neckline
- scoop-neck shirt
Imagine you could take this spoon and go from the concave side facing you, the scoop side to pushing it through until the convex side is facing facing you.
- Imagine you could take this spoon and go from the concave side facing you, the scoop side to pushing it through until the convex side is facing facing you.
- It has all gotten the same kind of like scoop to it and that's problematic.
- It has a little a little scoop up here really cute nice solid length here.
Examples
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"Over there!" I saw it in that moment, a shallow little scoop of a pond caught in the web of branches.
Fiction book (1991) -
He filled a scoop with ice cream and placed it in a cone.
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So you can see that the face of this hill has a scoop and an angle.
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So just take a big scoop, put them right in the tray, right on top.
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This is a little scoop so you can get your wax out.
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It makes a nice round scoop.
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Instead, golden kernels spilled from the scoop into her palms.
Fiction book (1998) -
The Curtis P-40 had a signature air scoop below the prop, making a silhouette of the plane shark-like.
Blog text (34) -
PHOTO (COLOR): Broken, scoop-shaped grindstones litter Hosh el-Guruf, an ancient gold-mining site.
Academic text (2009) -
The gardener used a large scoop to remove the soil from the flower bed.
Synonyms
78
5.5
A small hollow space inside a rock or object that can hold other material
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
10
5.5
Secret information that only a few people know about a company or event
- Jargon
A close-range basketball shot made with an underhand scooping motion over a defender
How Deep
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scoop comes from an old Norse word skopa that meant a 'bowl' or 'cup', so imagine a round hollow made by digging or shaping. That's why a scoop can mean a bowl-shaped hollow left when material is removed.