Business name word
Scoop
Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
Pronunciation: /skuːp/, /skʉwp/
What “Scoop” means
Noun
- Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
Verb
- To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- To make hollow; to dig out.
- To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- To pick (someone) up
Where the word comes from
From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel, Japanese スコップ.
Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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