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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Scoop \Scoop\, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch["u]ppe, and also to E. shove. See {Shovel}.] 1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies. [1913 Webster] 4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. [1913 Webster] Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. --J. R. Drake. [1913 Webster] 5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop. [1913 Webster] 6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling. [1913 Webster] 7. a quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; -- used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop; as, an ice cream cone with two scoops. [PJC] 8. an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a {beat}. [Newspaper or laboratory cant] [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] 9. news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?. [informal] [PJC] {Scoop net}, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. {Scoop wheel}, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Scoop \Scoop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scooped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scooping}.] [OE. scopen. See {Scoop}, n.] 1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out. [1913 Webster] He scooped the water from the crystal flood. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry. [1913 Webster] 3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation. [1913 Webster] Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Scoop \Scoop\, v. t. to report a story first, before (a rival); to get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival); -- used commonly in the passive; as, we were scooped. Also used in certain situations in scientific research, when one scientist or team of scientists reports their results before another who is working on the same problem. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Beat \Beat\, n. 1. One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. The act of one that beats a person or thing; as: (a) (Newspaper Cant) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; -- also called a {scoop} or {exclusive}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] It's a beat on the whole country. --Scribner's Mag. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] (b) (Hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively. "Driven out in the course of a beat." --Encyc. of Sport. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them. --Encyc. of Sport. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] (c) (Fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: scoop n 1: the quantity a scoop will hold [syn: {scoop}, {scoopful}] 2: a hollow concave shape made by removing something [syn: {scoop}, {pocket}] 3: a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials" [syn: {exclusive}, {scoop}] 4: street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate [syn: {soap}, {scoop}, {max}, {liquid ecstasy}, {grievous bodily harm}, {goop}, {Georgia home boy}, {easy lay}] 5: the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe [syn: {scoop}, {scoop shovel}] 6: a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream" v 1: take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container" [syn: {scoop}, {scoop out}, {lift out}, {scoop up}, {take up}] 2: get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" [syn: {outdo}, {outflank}, {trump}, {best}, {scoop}]