(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.
Shovel
Definition:
(v. t.) An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.
(v. t.) To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.
(v. t.) To gather up as with a shovel.
Example Sentences:
(1) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(2) About 4,000 government-issued shovels were handed out in several main piazzas to Romans trying to clear their streets before a freeze forecast for Sunday evening.
(3) The frequencies of shovelling in the Southern Cook (23%) were quite similar at the medium level (S + S.S), to those in other Polynesian groups as well as in the Micronesian groups.
(4) The occurrence of invaginations in shovel-shaped incisors was 11 per cent.
(5) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.
(6) God grounds to Hairston, who can't field it cleanly and tries to shovel the ball to second.
(7) We’re out there one night ’til 3am shoveling dirt on the fire.
(8) Upper anterior teeth showed high frequency of shovel form; upper lateral incisors showed less tendency of regression.
(9) Subjects were 184 power shovel operators, 127 bulldozer operators, 44 forklift operators as operator groups, and 44 office workers as a control.
(10) People were being told to "get a shovel or stay at home", he said.
(11) What Victoria gains from shovelling the best part of $58m of taxpayers’ money into the touring F1 circus goes to the heart of the debate over whether the race should continue at Albert Park.
(12) deaths were increased for 8 days after a snowstorm, suggesting that the effect was related to activities such as snow shovelling rather than the storm itself.
(13) Benaglio manages to hook the ball clear, in a clumsy fashion, as though he's waving a shovel about.
(14) Percent peak treadmill oxygen consumption and heart rate with shoveling in the three groups ranged from 60% to 68% and 75% to 78%, respectively.
(15) There is even a picturesque worker standing at ease, quietly breast-feeding his shovel.
(16) c) Compared with the Japanese, their teeth were characterized by a smaller mesiodistal crown-diameter (especially on the upper first molar), higher frequency of shovel-shape and lower frequency of Carabelli's tuberculum.
(17) Older workers may feel compelled to shovel yet more cash into their workplace additional voluntary contribution (AVC) schemes.
(18) It's like living in New England and being pro-"having to shovel your car out of the snow".
(19) Professor Ian Brown, associate director of Oxford University’s Cyber Security Centre, says given the past attacks on Iran, it’s highly likely to be shovelling vast sums into offensive technologies.
(20) The incidences of double shovelling were similar to those of the Guamese, but lower than those of the Hawaiians.