meaning of scoop
1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
2. 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.
3. A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
7. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
8. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
9. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
10. SCOOP Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog. ["SCOOP, Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog", J. Vaucher et al, in ECOOP 88, S. Gjessing et al eds, LNCS 322, Springer 1988, pp. 191-211]. SCOOPS Scheme Object-Oriented Programming System. Developed at Texas Instruments in 1986. It supports multiple inheritance and class variables. ftp://altdorf. ai. mit. edu/archive/scheme-library/unsupported/
11. a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice
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Related Words
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