| 单词 | scoop |
| 释义 | scoop —scooper, n. /skoohp/, n. 1. a ladle or ladlelike utensil, esp. a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc. 2. a utensil composed of a palm-sized hollow hemisphere attached to a horizontal handle, for dishing out ice cream or other soft foods. 3. a hemispherical portion of food as dished out by such a utensil: two scoops of chocolate ice cream. 4. the bucket of a dredge, steam shovel, etc. 5. Surg. a spoonlike apparatus for removing substances or foreign objects from the body. 6. a hollow or hollowed-out place. 7. the act of ladling, dipping, dredging, etc. 8. the quantity held in a ladle, dipper, shovel, bucket, etc. 9. a news item, report, or story first revealed in one paper, magazine, newscast, etc.; beat. 10. Informal. news, information, or details, esp. as obtained from experience or an immediate source: What's the scoop on working this machine? 11. a gathering to oneself or lifting with the arms or hands. 12. Informal. a big haul, as of money. 13. Television , Motion Pictures. a single large floodlight shaped like a flour scoop. v.t. 14. to take up or out with or as if with a scoop. 15. to empty with a scoop. 16. to form a hollow or hollows in. 17. to form with or as if with a scoop. 18. to get the better of (other publications, newscasters, etc.) by obtaining and publishing or broadcasting a news item, report, or story first: They scooped all the other dailies with the story of the election fraud. 19. to gather up or to oneself or to put hastily by a sweeping motion of one's arms or hands: He scooped the money into his pocket. v.i. 20. to remove or gather something with or as if with a scoop: to scoop with a ridiculously small shovel. [1300-50; (n.) ME scope < MD schope; (v.) ME scopen, deriv. of the n.] |
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