What's the difference between scoop and spade?

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.

Spade


Definition:

  • (n.) A hart or stag three years old.
  • (n.) A castrated man or beast.
  • (n.) An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.
  • (n.) One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
  • (n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
  • (v. t.) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Time, to use a good Anglo-Saxon expression, to call a spade a spade.
  • (2) Before you take out your bucket and spade, though, you might like to look at the sand sculpture festival (until 5 September; prices vary from day to day) for inspiration.
  • (3) The first, the 28A region, gave three recessive lethals and also contains three known visible mutants, spade (spd), Sternopleural (Sp) and wingless (wg); a complex pattern of genetic interaction in the region incorporates both the new and the previously known mutants.
  • (4) This was greeted by a furious wall of sound from Labour, which only grew when he added: "The last government failed to prioritise compassionate care … they tried to shut down the whistleblowers …" It was pure party-political point-scoring, matched in spades by Labour's Andy Burnham.
  • (5) The entertainment industry's reliance on the courts for a cheap and dirty fix to all its problems has mutated filesharing into a strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that has no one to sue except for individual filesharers (and the most avid music filesharers are also the most avid music everything – CD buyers, concertgoers, bootleg collectors … When you live your life for music, you do everything musical in spades).
  • (6) Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is characterized by a spade-like left ventricular cavity and by both giant negative T waves and tall R waves in the electrocardiogram.
  • (7) After one year, attempted removal of the spade tipped K-wire was unsuccessful.
  • (8) "Any fool can spend money; Gordon Brown has proved that in spades.
  • (9) Our two cases of trisomy 12p (ter leads to 12.1) were compared with eight cases of trisomy 12p described earlier, and the following common characteristics were found: severe mental and physical retardation; flat and round, broad face with prominent cheeks; flat and broad nasal bridge with short nose; anteverted nostrils and large philtrum; broad and prominent lower lip; low-set or slanting ears, poorly formed with folded helix, prominent antihelix and deep concha; short neck; short sternum; "spade"-shaped fingers, the fifth being short; bilateral genu valgum; bilateral pes planus and talus valgus; increased space between the first and second toes; generalized hypotonia; and certain dermatoglyphic characteristics.
  • (10) When will spades be called spades and retreats retreats?
  • (11) Commuting back and forth across the Atlantic has taken its toll but paid off in spades, first with gold and silver in Daegu and now the 10,000m Olympic title.
  • (12) Little documented, the scene was caught by Colin MacInnes in his 1957 novel City of Spades, whose hero is a West African hustler called Johnny Fortune.
  • (13) Republicans stake their claim as Christie stresses credentials at CPAC Read more The 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference was in full swing, and at the end of Thursday afternoon, the crowd got what it had come for, in spades: three searing speeches from the main stage razzing President Barack Obama, damning “radical Islamic terrorism” and celebrating the United States as the best place on Earth in history.
  • (14) These and other problems identified by the PAC apply in spades to mass contracting by CCGs, which are even less capable of managing contracts than central government departments.
  • (15) Osborne's first spade in the ground was on work at the station for Manchester airport, the UK's third biggest airport.
  • (16) Another notable Britpop item was the cassingle version of Elastica's Waking Up, designed by Jon Anonymous: made up like a packet of cards, with a spade cut out of the front, it had a band member trading card inside.
  • (17) The spade-like configuration was also seen in four cases (7.0%) of the GNT- group.
  • (18) Every reason people in the UK might have not to vote, Nigerians also have, in spades.
  • (19) Bagolini and Ioli-Spade in 1968 presented a 30 year follow-up on Bietti's cases and presented six additional cases.
  • (20) In the 9 patients who had cardiac catheterization the left ventricular end-diastolic pressure was raised, and angiography showed an "ace of spades" diastolic image of the left ventricle with systolic obliteration of its tip.