Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: scoop
IPA transcription: [sk'up]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: scoop, scoopful
    Meaning: the quantity a scoop will hold
Usage examples
  • Cut the crust from a loaf of bread, scoop out the center, brush with butter and brown in the oven.
  • Cut small rounds of toasted bread; scoop out some of the centre; fill with the mixture and cover with a curry sauce.
  • From a heap of tailings the miner can select a sample, by boring into it with a thin tube, inside of which revolves a shaft carrying at its end a flat steel rotary scoop.
  • The price was twenty cents, which included a dab of mashed potato dished out in an ice-cream scoop, a generous allowance of tender peas, two hot tea-biscuits and butter to match.
  • Then, when the winds fall, we move in for a couple of months. It isn't really mining, or even quarrying; we just scoop up ore from the surface, load it onto ore-boats, and fly it down to Skilk and Krink and Grank, where it's smelted through the winter.