What's the difference between scoop and scoot?

Scoop


Definition:

  • (n.) A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
  • (n.) A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
  • (n.) A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
  • (n.) The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
  • (n.) To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
  • (n.) To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
  • (n.) To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These recent Times scoops about Obama's policies do not sink to the level of the Judy Miller debacle.
  • (2) Pharo also claimed that Wade had turned down the scoop about MPs’ expense claims because she had spent so much on a book by former glamour model Katie Price.
  • (3) Latino Review has a track record of attention-grabbing scoops, though its accuracy has occasionally been called into question.
  • (4) Scoop some of the flour mixture over the top of each piece and press down with the back of your hand, making sure it's completely coated.
  • (5) Murdoch MacLennan, the Telegraph Media Group chief executive, praised staff and the titles' editor-in-chief, Will Lewis: "Will Lewis and his team have done a brilliant job with the MPs' expenses scoop.
  • (6) Anderson Fernandes, 22, appeared before magistrates in Manchester charged with burglary after he took two scoops of coffee ice-cream and a cone from Patisserie Valerie in the city centre.
  • (7) In the case of Edmondson's ex-colleague Clive Goodman, the paper's former royal editor, some of those scoops involved paying the private detective Glenn Mulcaire to hack into phone messages left on mobile phones belonging to public figures.
  • (8) And this as we learn that GCHQ, in all its technological majesty, can scoop up every last word that passes through those sleek cables beneath the Atlantic, everything we say and every last key that our fingers stroke.
  • (9) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.
  • (10) If, as seems probable, the Conservative party now scoops up most of the support that used to go to Farage, what impact will that have on the broader cause of Conservatism?
  • (11) ‘Dysfunctional’ ABC management slammed Trevor Bormann, last year’s Walkley winner for Foreign Correspondent’s “Prisoner X” scoop, has dumped a bucket on ABC news management on the way out the door.
  • (12) But her huge payout has drawn comparisons to the rewards Wall Street bankers have scooped as markets collapse.
  • (13) But by exaggerating the point, Parker swerves around another truth – that the UK's intelligence agencies are already scooping up more material than ever before, and GCHQ has an ambition to go further.
  • (14) Yaya Toure picked him out with a forensic, scooped pass that he played with the outside of his right boot and Bony watched it drop before trying to score with an overhead kick.
  • (15) The incidence of obstructions, as registered by impediments to exhalation and by increases in peak inspiratory pressure, was significantly less frequent with the modified device, since the tongue could be "scooped" to a ventro-caudal direction if necessary.
  • (16) Fire crews typically rely on helicopters scooping up 1,500-litre buckets of water from ponds and streams to put out flames.
  • (17) Together they set out to modernise Radio 2, reasoning that as Radio 1 shed its "Smashie and Nicey" middle-of-the-road image to target youth in the 1990s, Radio 2 had to move and scoop up disenfranchised adults aged in their late thirties and above.
  • (18) The Chinese dredger barges can reach up to 30 metres below the surface, cutting out and scooping up huge quantities of sand and coral for land reclamation projects.
  • (19) ITV News' coverage of the Woolwich attack, including its shocking exclusive cameraphone footage of one of Lee Rigby's killers shot minutes after he was murdered, won the home news coverage and scoop of the year awards; while News at Ten co-anchor Mark Austin was named national presenter of the year.
  • (20) The studio has refused to comment on Latino Review's Justice League scoop.

Scoot


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The resulting corner is dealt with easily by Real, who scoot upfield through Di Maria.
  • (2) During catalysis in the scooting mode the enzyme does not leave the surface of the vesicle to which it is bound.
  • (3) Similarly, anomalous kinetic effects of the thermotropic gel-fluid phase transition or of a change in the general disorder of the bilayer organization (fluidity) has a minor effect on the kinetics of hydrolysis in the scooting mode.
  • (4) Updated at 4.44pm BST 4.39pm BST Second set: Djokovic 4-6, 4-2 Nadal* (*denotes server) After much head-shaking, Djokovic nails a forehand, before drawing Nadal to the net with a drop-shot, Nadal scooting to the backhand wing and force-scooping a winner crosscourt.
  • (5) I'm going to scoot off now -- my colleague Nick Fletcher will see you home :).
  • (6) 27 min: Park Chung-yong attempts to break down the right, but falls over just as he's nearly scooting past Fucile.
  • (7) Its occurrence is most probably related to the new "scoot foot" or "sitting back" technique in downhill skiing.
  • (8) It was shown that the hydrolysis of these mixed lipid vesicles occurs in the scooting mode in which the enzyme remains tightly bound to the interface and only the substrate molecules present on the outer monolayer of the target vesicle became hydrolyzed Thus the phenomenon of scooting mode hydrolysis was not restricted to the action of PLA2 on vesicles of pure anionic phospholipids, but it was also observed with vesicles of zwitterionic lipids as long as a critical amount of anionic compound was present.
  • (9) I hire a bike and scoot around the city as if I live there.
  • (10) A keen skier, the president attended its 2006 launch, where he was filmed scooting along the snow.
  • (11) The kinetic data of P. glumae lipase have been analyzed in terms of the scooting and hopping models for the action of lipolytic enzymes [Upreti, G.C., & Jain, M.K.
  • (12) Interfacial catalysis in the scooting mode with a high processivity occurs on vesicles of anionic phospholipids, and under these conditions the dynamics and order of the substrate in the interface influences the catalytic turnover only moderately, i.e., about 2- to 10-fold.
  • (13) The couple seemed to enjoy their scoot around the show, with the Queen asking what one work by the New York collective Bernadette Corporation was.
  • (14) Furthermore, relative to native enzymes, manoalogue-modified enzymes retained significantly higher catalytic activities when acting on water-soluble substrates than when acting on vesicles in the scooting mode.
  • (15) The interfacial turnover rate constant for scooting kinetics, ki, for the various phospholipids were from less than 0.1 to 1 per min.
  • (16) Messi skidaddles down the middle, shifts the ball a tad left to scoot past Schweinsteiger, and Lampards it at goal.
  • (17) This rigorous description of interfacial catalysis was made experimentally possible by examining the action of PLA2 in the scooting mode under conditions of at most one enzyme per vesicle, where it hydrolyzed all of the substrate in the outer monolayer of vesicles without leaving the surface.
  • (18) This difficulty can be overcome by monitoring interfacial catalysis in the scooting mode where the enzyme does not leave the interface.
  • (19) Then scoot over for a look at the many marvellous recipes in his New Vegetarian column .
  • (20) Acta 860, 435-447), hydrolysis of anionic vesicles occurs by interfacial catalysis in the scooting mode, i.e., the catalytic turnover is fast relative to the off-rate of the enzyme from the interface.

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