What's the difference between scoop and skim?

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.

Skim


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
  • (v. t.) To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
  • (v. t.) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper.
  • (v. i.) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
  • (v. i.) To hasten along with superficial attention.
  • (v. i.) To put on the finishing coat of plaster.
  • (a.) Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Often, flavorings such as chocolate and strawberry and sugars are added to low-fat and skim milk to make up for the loss of taste when the fat is removed.
  • (2) Each malnourished child was given 1 pound of dried skimmed milk (DSM) per week.
  • (3) These results indicate that healthy VLBW infants maintain adequate growth and macronutrient balance for the first 2 months postnatally when fed mothers' milk fortified with additional skim and cream components.
  • (4) Neither extracellular nor cell-associated hydrolase profiles changed significantly when cells were grown in skim milk or mineral salts medium at either 5 or 20 degrees C. Similarly, added calcium did not seem required for synthesis of any of the enzymes.
  • (5) A MI individual then, appears able to absorb the monosaccharides of the prehydrolyzed milk and can, furthermore, tolerate the low-lactose skim milk without suffering from symptoms normally associated with lactose intolerance.
  • (6) Streptococci and lactobacilli were assayed for their proteolytic activity in pasteurised (95 degrees C for 30 min) fresh Friesian cows' skim milk incubated at 30 degrees C for 48 h. Lactobacilli were more proteolytic than the streptococci except S. faecalis subsp.
  • (7) The solubility of both free and low molecular weight ligand complexed calcium, magnesium, and zinc in skimmed human and bovine milks over intestinal luminal pH ranges (approximately 3-7) was measured using ultrafiltration techniques.
  • (8) Uptake with skimmed milk was the same as with whole milk and we suggested that the factor was not fat.
  • (9) With a dried skim milk extender, prefreeze and postfreeze motility was greater in samples containing 20% seminal plasma.
  • (10) Distribution of membrane in mature milks was: fat globules, 80%; skim milk, 20% (including fluff, 5%); and cells, less than 1%.
  • (11) The lipoprotein lipase and tributyrate hydrolysing activities were found to be similarly distributed in the fractions obtained when whole milk was separated into skim-milk and cream, and when the cream was washed and freed from lipid.
  • (12) Addition of dried skim milk or dried whey to the diet resulted in higher values (P less than .05) for DMD and ED as compared with the basal or corn-soy and lard diet.
  • (13) Recovery of vitamin D added to unfortified skim milk is 98%.
  • (14) A method is described for purification of sulfhydryl oxidase from bovine milk which consistently yields preparations with greater than 3000-fold purification over skim milk.
  • (15) Neutrophil morphology was altered by fat, skim, CL, CE, NO, and DP.
  • (16) Mourinho’s pre-match utterances are generally best skimmed for the odd word not specifically dedicated to inflammatory falsehoods, but Chelsea’s manager was correct to offer some wary respect for the Football League’s champion club and here, lining up in a tightly knit 4-4-2, Leicester were sharp in the tackle early on, and pacy on the break throughout.
  • (17) The activity was destroyed by heating to temperatures higher than 50 degrees, whereas the presence of skim milk during heating preserved the enzyme activity, at least, up to 70 degrees.
  • (18) In the department for calves being fed with fluid feed of a specialised enterprise for calf rearing the daily intake of fluid feed (skim milk improved with milk substitute), concentrated feed and hay of a total of 341 female animals and the daily intake of energy and protein was calculated thereof.
  • (19) In the second experiment the utilization of lysine (relative to free lysine) for weight gain, as measured in weaner pigs, was found to be 0.68, 0.73, 0.81, 0.86 and 1.00 for cottonseed meal 1, cottonseed meal 2, meat meal, sunflower meal and skim milk respectively.
  • (20) Everything started to unravel for Spurs a minute before half-time when Willian’s free-kick skimmed off Rose’s head, ricocheted off Dier and dropped invitingly for Terry.